IEEE ICRA: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

The premier international conference in robotics and automation, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, and students from around the world. ICRA covers all aspects of robotics and automation, from theory to applications, and serves as the main forum for disseminating cutting-edge research in the field.

Organiser: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
Founded: 1984
Frequency: annual
Usually held in: May-June
Duration: 5 days
Typical attendance: 6,000-7,000
Audience: Academic researchers, industry professionals, students
Topics: robotics, automation, manipulation, locomotion, perception, planning, control, human-robot interaction
Tags: robotics, automation, ieee, academic

Next edition

ICRA 2027, May 24 – 28, 2027, Coex – Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea

Keynote speakers

Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley and Ambi Robotics): A Tale of Two Cultures: Can Agentic Coding Close the Gap?
Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)): Natural Revolution: Biological Principles for Frugal and Sustainable Robotics
Roland Siegwart (Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich): Aerial Robots – From Omnidirectional Flight to Physical Interaction at Height
Johannes Betz (Technical University of Munich): Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limits – Lessons Learned from Real-World Autonomous Motorsport
Michael Milford (QUT Centre for Robotics): From Neuroscience to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
Aniket Bera (Purdue University): Toward Behaviorally-Intelligent Robots: Safe Navigation in Unstructured and Human-Centered Environments
Hesheng Wang (Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University): Learning to Navigate: From Scene Understanding to Decision Making
Eric Diller (Robotics Institute, University of Toronto): Using Magnetic Fields to Control Tiny Robots in the Gut and Brain
Fanny Ficuciello (University of Naples Federico II): From Bioinspired Design to Safe Control: Emerging Challenges in Medical Robotics
Tiantian Xu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT)): Magnetically Actuated Microrobots for Precision Medicine
Haoyong Yu (National University of Singapore): Towards Wearable Robotics with better Portability, Safety, and Comfort
Ayoung Kim (Seoul National University): The Underdog Sensors: Are Robots Using Thermal and Radar Right?
Luca Carlone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Maps, Memory, and Tasks: Toward Spatial AI for the Next Generation of Robots
Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn): Advancing Service Robots Through Active Perception: Mapping and Object Search Under Occlusion
Timothy Barfoot (University of Toronto): Why Field Robotics Research Still Matters
Jeannette Bohg (Stanford University): Do We Still Need Dexterous Hands?
Kento Kawaharazuka (Next Generation AI Research Center, The University of Tokyo): Towards the Ultimate Humanoid: At the Intersection of Humans and Machines
Nikos Tsagarakis (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)): Modular Bodies and Recovery Capabilities: Building Robots for Unstructured Environments
Yuke Zhu (UT Austin): Building Generalist Humanoid Robots
David Hsu (National University of Singapore): Scalable Robot Decision Making in the Open World: Planning and Plan Prediction with LLMs
Stefanie Tellex (Brown University): Towards Complex Language in Partially Observed Environments
Noémie Jaquier (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Traveling the Robot Learning Manifold: A Tale of Geometries and Inductive Biases
Paolo Robuffo Giordano (IRISA Rennes): Intrinsic Robustness: A Journey from Control-Aware Planning to Robust Robot Learning
Julie A. Adams (Oregon State University): Challenges in Adaptive Robot Teaming: Understanding Human Teammate Performance
Marcia O'Malley (Rice University): Guiding with Touch: Wearable Haptics for Shaping Human–Robot Interaction
Tetsunari Inamura (Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University): Engineering Human Agency and Self-Efficacy: The Next Frontier of Human-Robot Symbiosis
Berk Calli (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): Overcoming Manipulation Challenges in Environmental Robotics through AI-based Solutions and Human-Robot Partnership

Workshops

SimR: Simulation and Robotics Tutorial, Monday June 1: Surveying modern simulation tools for robotics and demonstrating sim-to-sim transfer of reinforcement learning agents across environments.
Riemann and Gauss meet Asimov: 3rd Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control, Monday June 1: Applying differential geometry, Lie groups, and Riemannian manifolds to improve robot learning, control, and optimization with better data efficiency.
Digital Twins for UAV Autonomy: From Model-Based Design to Verified Deployment, Monday June 1: End-to-end UAV digital twin workflow covering model-based flight control design, verification, and hardware-in-the-loop deployment.
Workshop on the Path Towards Generalizable Contact-Rich Robotics: Control and Representation, Monday June 1: Bridging contact representation and control algorithms to enable generalizable robotic manipulation through sustained physical contact with objects.
1st Workshop on Generative Digital Twins for Real2Sim and Sim2Real Transfer in Robotics, Monday June 1: AI-driven generation of digital twins to bridge simulation and reality, improving robustness and scalability of Real2Sim and Sim2Real transfer.
Act to Sense to Act Better: 1st Workshop on Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation, Monday June 1: Integrating strategic sensing actions into manipulation through multi-modal exploration, uncertainty-aware control, and information-driven grasping.
Open Challenges for Rigorous Robot Perception, Monday June 1: Achieving robust, interpretable robot perception in unstructured environments across modular pipelines, end-to-end learning, and foundation models.
Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Imitation Learning, Monday June 1: Exploring how reinforcement learning complements imitation learning for robot policy fine-tuning, uncertainty-aware adaptation, and generalization.
Dexterity with Multifingered Hands, Monday June 1: Advancing dexterous manipulation with multi-fingered hands through algorithmic breakthroughs, adaptability improvements, and overcoming manipulation bottlenecks.
Synthetic Data for Robot Learning, Monday June 1: Leveraging synthetic data to advance robot learning in reinforcement learning, system identification, and evaluation while tackling domain transfer challenges.
MM-Spatial AI: Multi-Modal Spatial AI, Monday June 1: Multi-modal sensor fusion for robust SLAM, open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding, and autonomous navigation in complex dynamic environments.
Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems (CARS), Monday June 1: Leveraging 5G, 6G, and satellite networks to enable coordinated multi-robot systems with shared perception, edge computing, and cloud resources.
1st Workshop on Generalization in Autonomous Driving, Monday June 1: Generalizing autonomous driving to unseen conditions via modular open-source architectures, end-to-end models, domain adaptation, and sim-to-real transfer.
1st Workshop on Long-term Deployments in the Wild (LoWi), Monday June 1: Perception, learning, and navigation for autonomous robots operating long-term in unstructured environments with varying terrain, weather, and seasons.
2nd Workshop on Robot Ethics (WOROBET), Monday June 1: Ethical, legal, and social challenges of robot assistants in personal and public spaces, including privacy, safety, and AI regulation frameworks.
4th Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (ICRA-RAMI), Monday June 1: Intelligent robotic systems for autonomous medical image acquisition using visual servoing, segmentation, and scene understanding across imaging modalities.
8th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE26), Monday June 1: Software engineering challenges unique to robotics, including architecture patterns, AI-enhanced development, safety, modularity, and CI/CD practices.
Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics, Monday June 1: Using AI and mobile manipulators to automate scientific laboratories, improving reproducibility and scalability of natural science research.
Aerial Inspection for Marine Infrastructures, Monday June 1: Autonomous aerial robots for inspecting maritime structures using collision-tolerant drones, GNSS-denied navigation, and non-destructive testing methods.
AI-Driven Soft Robotics, Monday June 1: Bidirectional innovation between AI and soft robotics: AI-enhanced modeling and control of compliant robots, and embodied intelligence inspiring new AI frameworks.
A User-Centered Perspective on Human-Robot Sensorimotor Augmentation, Monday June 1: User-centered design of supernumerary robotic limbs for human physical augmentation, focusing on embodiment, control, and motor disability applications.
Catching Them Young: Engaging Students in Robotics Standardization, Monday June 1: Bridging academia and standards organizations (IEEE, NIST, ISO) to engage students in robotics safety, interoperability, and ethical deployment standards.
Circular Robotics: Designing Sustainable Autonomy, Monday June 1: Applying circular economy principles to the full robot lifecycle, from material sourcing and manufacturing to repairability, modularity, and end-of-life.
Embodied AI and the Future of Telepresence through Robotics, Monday June 1: AI-enhanced robotic telepresence avatars enabling embodied remote presence across healthcare, education, disaster response, and collaborative work.
From Sea to Space: Advancing Perception in Harsh Domains, Monday June 1: Adapting foundation models and 3D neural representations for robotic perception in extreme underwater and space environments with limited compute.
Investing in Robotics: How to Judge, What Breaks, What's Hot, Monday June 1: Evaluating robotics ventures from an investor perspective: assessing funding potential, understanding failure modes, and identifying hot market opportunities.
Joint Workshop on Ontologies, Semantic Maps and Autonomous Robotics Standardization, Monday June 1: Integrating ontological formalization, semantic map generation, and standardization to enable reliable human-robot collaboration in shared environments.
Multimodal Embodied Interaction in Robots, Monday June 1: Integrating vision, touch, sound, and language models to enable embodied robots performing complex real-world tasks and seamless human-robot communication.
Multi-modal Robotics for Sustainable Environmental Sensing, Monday June 1: Designing ecologically minimally-disruptive aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial robots for climate monitoring and biodiversity sensing in fragile ecosystems.
Notes and Bots: A Workshop on Robotic Musicianship, Monday June 1: Exploring autonomous musical robot design, human-robot musical collaboration, and hardware considerations for accessibility and diverse musical traditions.
Radar in Robotics: New Frontiers, Monday June 1: Advancing radar-based sensing for robust robot perception and navigation in unstructured environments where other modalities struggle.
Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy, Monday June 1: Cross-domain challenges in service, industrial, and disaster robotics: robust autonomy, natural human interaction, and perception in cluttered settings.
Signals in Sync: Multi-Modal Interfaces for Next-Gen Prosthetics, Monday June 1: Combining EMG, EEG, ultrasound, IMUs, and other biosignals with machine learning to enable intuitive, adaptive prosthetic control mimicking natural movement.
The Good Reviewer: Shaping Up Peer-Review in the Robotics Community, Monday June 1: Improving robotics peer review by identifying systemic weaknesses, establishing reviewer guidelines, and distributing workload amid rising submissions.
The SOFT frontier 3: Soft or Rigid? New Trends in Wearable Robotics, Monday June 1: Examining soft versus rigid design paradigms for wearable robots across rehabilitation, assistive technologies, prosthetics, caregiving, and haptic systems.
Towards Large-Area Tactile Sensing Skins, Monday June 1: Developing distributed tactile sensing skins using flexible electronics, soft composites, and multimodal sensors for manipulation and locomotion.
Workshop on Agricultural Robotics, Monday June 1: Addressing challenges and state-of-the-art approaches in farm automation through collaboration between robotics researchers and agricultural domain experts.
Workshop on Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics, 2nd Edition, Monday June 1: Bridging classical model-based optimization with learning-based methods and building reusable optimization software tools for robotics research.
Workshop on Pedestrian Behavior Prediction, Monday June 1: Predicting pedestrian behavior in interactive environments like traffic, factories, and malls using ML, kinematics, and cognitive psychology approaches.
ViTac: Learning to See and Feel, Monday June 1: Advancing vision-tactile synergy for contact-rich robotic manipulation through hardware co-design, high-fidelity simulation, and foundation models.
Hands-on Tutorial: 3D Tactile Sensor Integration in Robotic Fingers for Smart Manipulation, Friday June 5: Building and integrating compact 3D Hall-effect tactile sensors into robotic grippers for slip detection, force-aware grasping, and adaptive manipulation.
From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robots, Friday June 5: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action model pipelines for robots, spanning data curation, training strategies, deployment optimization, and benchmarking.
Beyond Teleoperation: Learning from Diverse Human and Simulation Data, Friday June 5: Learning dexterous manipulation from diverse data sources including human video, simulation, and robot demonstrations to bridge embodiment and sim-to-real gaps.
Uncertainty in Open-World Robotics, Friday June 5: Quantifying and managing robot uncertainty for safer perception, navigation, and decision-making in dynamic, unstructured open-world environments.
Human-Inspired Principles for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation, Friday June 5: Applying biomechanics and motor neuroscience principles to close the gap between human and robotic dexterity in contact-rich manipulation tasks.
Geometry in the Age of Data-Driven Robotics, Friday June 5: Debating whether geometric foundations should remain central to robotics as data-driven and machine learning methods increasingly dominate the field.
Workshop on Manipulation Robustness, Friday June 5: Identifying unified principles across control, planning, learning, perception, and hardware for robust manipulation under real-world uncertainty and variation.
RoboTac 2026: Embodied Tactile Intelligence in Predictive Perception, Friday June 5: Integrating tactile sensing with vision and foundation models for embodied haptic perception, predictive control, and dexterous grasping and manipulation.
Bridging the Gap between Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction, Friday June 5: Unifying robot learning and HRI communities around designing intuitive teaching interfaces and meeting human expectations of common-sense robot capabilities.
Scaling Compositional Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, Friday June 5: Coordinating multi-agent robotic teams for seamless collaboration with each other and humans in unstructured real-world environments like warehouses and construction sites.
Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy, Friday June 5: Leveraging semantic understanding, language-based reasoning, and perception to enable robots to interpret environments and reason about action implications.
RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems, Friday June 5: Leveraging heterogeneous computing hardware — CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and custom accelerators — to build high-performance autonomous robotic systems.
1st Workshop on Robot Meets GNSS and Ranging for Seamless Autonomy, Friday June 5: Fusing GNSS, UWB, and ranging technologies into robotic systems for robust large-scale navigation under multipath, non-line-of-sight, and signal interference.
20 Years of Workshops on Benchmarking and Reproducibility: Part I, Friday June 5: Assessing two decades of progress on reproducibility and benchmarking in robotics research and charting whether these practices will become mainstream.
2nd Workshop on e-Heritage and Robotics, Friday June 5: Applying robotics and autonomous systems to preserve cultural heritage — exploring archaeological sites, capturing human gestures, and protecting against time and destruction.
3rd Unconventional Robots: From Concept to Real-World Systems, Friday June 5: Exploring novel robotic morphologies beyond traditional designs, debating whether advances in control or physical design contribute more to robotic capability.
4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction, Friday June 5: Applying neuroscience and cognitive psychology to design brain-centered human-robot interactions that overcome social adoption barriers for consumer applications.
8th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction, Friday June 5: Advancing long-term prediction of human trajectories, poses, and actions to improve robot planning and safe human-robot interaction in shared environments.
Advances and Challenges in AI-Driven Automation and Robotic System Integration, Friday June 5: Integrating AI and digital twin technologies into robotic systems to address standardization and interoperability gaps in manufacturing, logistics, and construction.
AI-Driven Safe Aerial Robotics, Friday June 5: Advancing safer aerial robotic systems through AI, bio-inspired design, and verifiable autonomy while addressing ethical, regulatory, and societal implications.
Challenges and Opportunities of Neuromorphic Field Robotics, Friday June 5: Bridging neuromorphic computing and robotics communities to deploy event cameras and neuromorphic processors for real-world perception, SLAM, and navigation.
Embracing Intelligent Robotic Assistants for Robot-assisted Surgery, Friday June 5: Developing intelligent surgical robotic assistants that combine embodied AI, surgeon-intention recognition, and autonomous control to reduce surgical workload.
Emerging Paradigms for Robotic Manipulation: Extreme Conditions, Friday June 5: Tackling robotic grasping and manipulation in extreme environments including disaster zones, underwater settings, high-pressure areas, and space.
Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Aging Societies through Robotics, Friday June 5: Applying robotics and AI to support elderly autonomy through health monitoring, rehabilitation, cognitive training, and companionship with human-centered ethics.
Field Robotics, Friday June 5: Developing, deploying, and evaluating autonomous mobile systems in unstructured environments across agriculture, mining, forestry, and marine applications.
How Origami and Kirigami Have Revolutionized Robotics, Friday June 5: Exploring how origami and kirigami folding and cutting techniques inspire flexible, adaptable robot designs for soft robotics, surgery, and space exploration.
Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management, Friday June 5: Bridging the gap between multi-modal robotic inspection research and reliable industrial deployment in complex, safety-critical asset management environments.
Perceptual Challenges for Planetary Exploration, Friday June 5: Developing advanced sensing, localization, and mapping solutions enabling autonomous rovers to operate in harsh extraterrestrial environments where GPS and standard vision fail.
REaCT: Robotics for Environmental Assessment and Climate Action, Friday June 5: Deploying aerial, underwater, and sensor-network robots for environmental monitoring, biodiversity tracking, and ecosystem restoration to support climate action.
Robots Meet Prior Maps: Leveraging Geometric and Semantic Priors, Friday June 5: Extracting geometric and semantic priors from existing maps like BIM models, floor plans, and satellite imagery to enhance robot perception and navigation.
Soft & Safe? Rethinking the Role of Softness in Medical Robotics, Friday June 5: Critically examining when softness genuinely benefits medical robots versus when rigid or hybrid approaches offer superior clinical value.
Tailored to Move: Wearable Robotics for Motion Assistance, Friday June 5: Bridging robotics, biomechanics, and clinical practice to advance user-centered wearable devices for rehabilitation, aging support, and human augmentation.
Workshop on Intelligent Space Robotics and Systems, Friday June 5: Advancing off-world autonomy for on-orbit servicing, planetary exploration, lunar operations, and resource prospecting through perception, manipulation, and navigation.
Xplore: Cross-Disciplinary Aspects of Exploration, Friday June 5: Unifying exploration as a shared challenge across reinforcement learning, search algorithms, planning, and real-world robotics in uncertain environments.

Papers

Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 17th International Conference, ICIRA 2024, Xi'an, China, July 31 – August 2, 2024, Proceedings, Part VIII: International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications · 2025
FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models: Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess · Robotics · 2025
Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models: Optimizing Speed and Success: Moo Jin Kim, Chelsea Finn, Percy Liang · Robotics · 2025
SpatialVLA: Exploring Spatial Representations for Visual-Language-Action Model: Delin Qu, Haoming Song, Qizhi Chen, Yuanqi Yao · Robotics · 2025
ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills: Tairan He, Jiawei Gao, Wenli Xiao, Yuanhang Zhang · Robotics · 2025
UniVLA: Learning to Act Anywhere with Task-centric Latent Actions: Qingwen Bu, Yanting Yang, Jisong Cai, Shenyuan Gao · Robotics · 2025
Unified Video Action Model: Shuang Li, Yihuai Gao, Dorsa Sadigh, Shuran Song · Robotics · 2025
ConRFT: A Reinforced Fine-tuning Method for VLA Models via Consistency Policy: Yuhui Chen, Shuai Tian, Shugao Liu, Yingting Zhou · Robotics · 2025
Improving Vision-Language-Action Model with Online Reinforcement Learning: Yanjiang Guo, Jianke Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, Xiang Ji · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots: Alexander Robey, Zachary Ravichandran, Vijay Kumar, Hamed Hassani · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues: Xinzhu Ren, Y. Morimoto, S. Takeuchi · Sci. Robotics · 2025
ProxDDP: Proximal Constrained Trajectory Optimization: Wilson Jallet, Antoine Bambade, Etienne Arlaud, Sarah El-Kazdadi · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
Diffusion models for robotic manipulation: a survey: Rosa Wolf, Yitian Shi, Sheng Liu, Rania Rayyes · Frontiers Robotics AI · 2025
Learning coordinated badminton skills for legged manipulators: Yuntao Ma, Andrei Cramariuc, Farbod Farshidian, Marco Hutter · Sci. Robotics · 2025
ProxQP: an Efficient and Versatile Quadratic Programming Solver for Real-Time Robotics Applications and Beyond: Antoine Bambade, Fabian Schramm, Sarah El-Kazdadi, St´ephane Caron · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
A Dexterous and Compliant (DexCo) Hand Based on Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Human-Inspired Fine In-Hand Manipulation: Jianshu Zhou, Junda Huang, Qi Dou, Pieter Abbeel · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
Emerging technologies for smart and sustainable precision agriculture: Mrutyunjay Padhiary, Avinash Kumar, Laxmi Narayan Sethi · Discover Robotics · 2025
Precise and dexterous robotic manipulation via human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning: Jianlan Luo, Charles Xu, Jeffrey Wu, Sergey Levine · Sci. Robotics · 2025
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers: Guy Laban, Val Morrison, Arvid Kappas, Emily S. Cross · International Journal of Social Robotics · 2025
Robot Data Curation with Mutual Information Estimators: Joey Hejna, Suvir Mirchandani, A. Balakrishna, Annie Xie · Robotics · 2025
Stonefish: Supporting Machine Learning Research in Marine Robotics: Michele Grimaldi, P. Cieślak, Eduardo Ochoa, Vibhav Bharti · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Urban Air Mobility Research Challenges and Opportunities: Raja Sengupta, Vishwanath Bulusu, C. Mballo, Emin Burak Onat · Annu. Rev. Control. Robotics Auton. Syst. · 2025
HeRCULES: Heterogeneous Radar Dataset in Complex Urban Environment for Multi-Session Radar SLAM: Hanjun Kim, Minwoo Jung, Chiyun Noh, Sangwoo Jung · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-Rich Manipulation Using Tactile-Diffusion Policies: Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, B. Burchfiel · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Hierarchical Diffusion Policy: Manipulation Trajectory Generation via Contact Guidance: Dexin Wang, Chunsheng Liu, F. Chang, Yichen Xu · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
Diffusion-Based Self-Supervised Imitation Learning from Imperfect Visual Servoing Demonstrations for Robotic Glass Installation: Canran Xiao, Liwei Hou, Ling Fu, Wenrui Chen · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics: Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, L. Fu, Cedric Weibel · Robotics · 2025
Agricultural Robotics: A Technical Review Addressing Challenges in Sustainable Crop Production: Maria Spagnuolo, Giuseppe Todde, Maria Caria, Nicola Furnitto · Robotics · 2025
Quadruped Robots: Bridging Mechanical Design, Control, and Applications: Qimeng Li, Franco Cicirelli, Andrea Vinci, Antonio Guerrieri · Robotics · 2025
DDAT: Diffusion Policies Enforcing Dynamically Admissible Robot Trajectories: Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Kanghyun Ryu, Kartik Nagpal, Qiayuan Liao · Robotics · 2025
ThinTact: Thin Vision-Based Tactile Sensor by Lensless Imaging: Jing Xu, Weihang Chen, Hongyu Qian, Dan Wu · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
Quantum-Inspired Sliding-Mode Control to Enhance the Precision and Energy Efficiency of an Articulated Industrial Robotic Arm: Mehdi Fazilat, N. Zioui · Robotics · 2025
Robotic Compliant Object Prying Using Diffusion Policy Guided by Vision and Force Observations: J. Kang, Sagar Joshi, Ruopeng Huang, Satyandra K. Gupta · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025
Human–robot interaction through joint robot planning with large language models: Kosi Asuzu, Harjinder Singh, Moad Idrissi · Intelligent Service Robotics · 2025
RoboFlamingo-Plus: Fusion of Depth and RGB Perception with Vision-Language Models for Enhanced Robotic Manipulation: Sheng Wang · International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics · 2025
Tactile Robotics: An Outlook: Shan Luo, Nathan F. Lepora, Wenzhen Yuan, K. Althoefer · IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2025
Discrete-Time Hybrid Automata Learning: Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding: Hang Liu, Sangli Teng, Ben Liu, Wei Zhang · Robotics · 2025
Chameleon: Fast-Slow Neuro-Symbolic Lane Topology Extraction: Zongzheng Zhang, Xinrun Li, Sizhe Zou, Guoxuan Chi · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Advanced bio-hybrid drone for superior odor-source localization: high-precision and extended-range detection capabilities: C. Fukui, Tomoya Uchida, Sakito Koizumi, Yuta Murayama · npj Robotics · 2025
MILE: Model-Based Intervention Learning: Yigit Korkmaz, Erdem Biyik · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
NaviDiffusor: Cost-Guided Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation: Yiming Zeng, Hao Ren, Shuhang Wang, Junlong Huang · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
RS-ModCubes: Self-Reconfigurable, Scalable, Modular Cubic Robots for Underwater Operations: Jiaxi Zheng, Guangmin Dai, Botao He, Zhaoyang Mu · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year "data gap" in robotics: Kenneth Y. Goldberg · Sci. Robotics · 2025
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics: E. Milana, C. D. Santina, B. Gorissen, Philipp Rothemund · Sci. Robotics · 2025
Robotic In-Hand Manipulation for Large-Range Precise Object Movement: The RGMC Champion Solution: Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Chen Chen, Yongyi Jia · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025
Digiforests: a Longitudinal Lidar Dataset for Forestry Robotics: Meher V. R. Malladi, Nived Chebrolu, Irene Scacchetti, Luca Lobefaro · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics: Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale · International Journal of Social Robotics · 2025
A survey on recent trends in robotics and artificial intelligence in the furniture industry: Andrea Brunello, Giuliano Fabris, Alessandro Gasparetto, Angelo Montanari · Robotics Comput. Integr. Manuf. · 2025
Sim4EndoR: A Reinforcement Learning Centered Simulation Platform for Task Automation of Endovascular Robotics: Tianliang Yao, Madaoji Ban, Bo Lu, Zhiqiang Pei · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025
Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics: Perspectives and Challenges from the 2024 IEEE ICRA Workshop, Yokohama, Japan: A. I. Cooper, Patrick Courtney, Kourosh Darvish, Moritz Eckhoff · Sci. Robotics · 2025

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