ICRA 2024

Dates: May 13 – 17, 2024
Place: Yokohama, Japan
Organiser: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 held in Yokohama, Japan. Featured over 3,600 paper submissions and brought together robotics researchers from around the world.

Keynote speakers

Yoky Matsuoka (Panasonic Holdings / Yohana): How to Turn a Roboticist into a Corporate Explorer
Sami Haddadin (Technical University of Munich (TUM)): The Great Robot Accelerator: Collective Learning of Optimal Embodied AI
Sunil K Agrawal (Columbia University): Rehabilitation Robotics: How to Improve Daily Functions in People with Impairments?
Lianqing Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences): Biosyncretic Sensing, Actuation and Intelligence
Dawn M. Tilbury (University of Michigan): Digital Twins for Manufacturing Automation
Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS / IRISA, France): Beyond Force Feedback: Cutaneous Haptics in Human-centered Robotics
Yu Sun (University of Toronto): Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
Yasuhisa Hirata (Tohoku University): Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society
Calin Belta (University of Maryland): Formal Methods for Safety-Critical Control
Manuel Catalano (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia): Robots in the Wild: From Research Labs to the Real World
Harold Soh (National University of Singapore): Building Guidance Bridges with Generative Models
Lorenzo Sabattini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Unleashing the Power of Many: Decentralized Control
Myunghee Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago): Human-Wearable Robot Co-adaptation
Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): The Quest for Social Robot Autonomy
Kensuke Harada (Osaka University): Robotic Manipulation for Industrial Applications
Mariana Medina-Sánchez (Ikerbasque – NanoGUNE, Spain): Tiny Robots, Big Impact: Transforming Gynecological Care

Workshops

Debates on the Future of Robotics Research, Monday May 13: https://www.roboticsdebates.org/
Workshop on Field Robotics, Monday May 13: https://norlab-ulaval.github.io/workshop_field_robotics_icra2024/
Continuum and Soft robotics for medical applications with rising stars on the stage, Monday May 13: https://events.femto-st.fr/Workshop-ICRA2024-Continuum-Soft-Robotics/en
Agile Robotics: From Perception to Dynamic Action, Monday May 13: https://agile-robotics-workshop.github.io/icra2024/
6th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction, Monday May 13: https://motionpredictionicra2024.github.io/
2nd HERMES Workshop: Multi-Robot Sensing & Perception in Extreme Environments, Monday May 13: https://hermes-workshop.com/2024.html
Towards Collaborative Partners: Design, Shared Control, and Robot Learning for Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/icra24-physical-hri
Society of Avatar-Symbiosis through Social Field Experiments, Monday May 13: https://dil.atr.jp/ITB/en/ws-icra2024/
3rd Workshop on Future of Construction: Lifelong Learning Robots in Changing Construction Sites, Monday May 13: https://construction-robots.github.io/
What does Responsible Robotics mean?: Stretching roboticists horizons from an academic, government and philosophical perspective, Monday May 13: https://tinyurl.com/ResponsibleRobotics
Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation, Monday May 13: https://wosra.github.io/wosra/
Exploring Role Allocation in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/icra24-co-manipulation/home-page
C4SR+: Continuum, Compliant, Cooperative, Cognitive Surgical Robotic Systems in the Embodied AI Era, Monday May 13: https://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/c4sr
Dynamic Duos: Human-Robot Co-Worker Adaptation in Manufacturing, Monday May 13: http://www.rocoadapt.eu/
Autonomy in Robotics Surgery: State of the art, technical and regulatory challenges for clinical application, Monday May 13: https://metropolis.scienze.univr.it/icra24-workshop-autonomy-in-robotics-surgery/
2nd Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging ICRA-RAMI, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/rami-icra-2024-workshop/home
Back to the Future: Robot Learning Going Probabilistic, Monday May 13: https://probabilisticrobotics.github.io/
Bioinspired, soft and other novel design paradigms for aerial robotics, Monday May 13: https://aerial-robotics-workshop-icra2024.com/
Impulsive motion in soft robotic and microrobotic systems, Monday May 13: https://ris-lab.github.io/impulsive/
Agile Movements II: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/agilemovementsii/home
Bimanual Manipulation: On Kitchen Challenges, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024-ws-bi-mp/home
The robotics, psychology and neuroscience of body augmentation, Monday May 13: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/human-robotics/icra-2024-workshop/
Sustainable Soft Robots: Working with the Environment, Monday May 13: http://www.sustainable-soft-robotics.com/
Robotics and Sustainability: A Bidirectional Relationship, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/rsicra2024
2nd Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence (MOMA), Monday May 13: https://mobile-manipulation.net/moma2024/
(Re)designing the tree of robotic life: a game of alternative timelines, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/tree-of-robotic-life-icra2024/home
Advancing Sustainable Food Systems through Agri-Robotics Innovations, Monday May 13: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/icra-2024-workshop-agri-robotics
Co-design in Robotics: Theory, Practice, and Challenges, Monday May 13: https://www.robotmechanisms.org/activities/icra-2024-codesign
Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies, Monday May 13: https://www.trustworthyrobots.eu/rtss-icra/
Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications, Monday May 13: https://softperceptiverobots.it/
Advanced human-robot interfaces based on physiological signals and sensory stimulations, Monday May 13: https://www.a-human.unimore.it/
Assistive Systems: Lab to Patient Care, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/assistivesystems-icra-24/home
MAD-Games: Workshop on Multi-Agent Dynamic Games, Monday May 13: https://icra2024-madgames.f1tenth.org/
Workshop on Robot Ethics: Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics and Automation, Monday May 13: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/robin/events/workshops/workshop-icra2024.html
Applications and Future Directions of Affective Technologies, Monday May 13: https://afdat.blogs.rice.edu/
ProxyTouch: Whole-body Proxy-Tactile Architectures for Industrial and Service Applications, Monday May 13: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024proxytouch/home
Bio-inspired robotics and robotics for biology, Monday May 13: https://li-lab.de/workshop/
A Future Roadmap for Sensorimotor Skill Learning for Robot Manipulation, Monday May 13: https://icra-manipulation-skill.github.io/
Robotics and Automation in Nuclear Environments, Friday May 17: https://ukaeaevents.com/robotics-for-nuclear-environments/
3D Visual Representations for Robot Manipulation, Friday May 17: https://3d-manipulation-workshop.github.io/
Advancements in Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control for Legged Systems, Friday May 17: https://atompc-workshop.github.io/
Robots for Understanding Natural Ecosystems, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2024-rune-workshop/home
Cooking Robotics: Perception and motion planning, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024cookingrobotics/
Robot Software Architectures (RSA24), Friday May 17: https://rsa24.weebly.com/
Multi-Object Grasping: Progress and Prospects, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024-multiobjectgrasping/home
First Workshop on Vision-Language Models for Navigation and Manipulation, Friday May 17: https://vlmnm-workshop.github.io/
Radar in Robotics: Resilience from Signal to Navigation, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/radar-robotics
Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic end-effectors: asset or useless bias?, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/ws-icra-24-bias/home
Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomy, Friday May 17: https://theairlab.org/icra2024_offroad_workshop
Breaking Swarm Stereotypes, Friday May 17: https://hauertlab.com/breaking-swarm-stereotypes-workshop-icra-2024/
Translational Research in Medical Robotics: From Lab Bench to Clinical Use, Friday May 17: https://translational-medical-robotics.github.io/
4th Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, Friday May 17: https://deformable-workshop.github.io/icra2024/
Loco-Manipulation: Algorithms, Challenges & Applications, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/loco-manipulation-icra24/home
Cognition across species: from nature to robotic application, Friday May 17: https://bsr.iit.it/icra2024-ws-cognition
Unconventional Robots: Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/unconventionalrobots
Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra24-accelerating-discovery
Human-Robot Companionship for Healthcare and Wellness, Friday May 17: https://www.santannapisa.it/en/institute/dirpolis/ethics-tecnology
Humanoid Whole-body Control: From human motion understanding to humanoid locomotion, Friday May 17: https://icra-2024-humanoid.github.io/
RoboNerF: Neural Fields in Robotics, Friday May 17: https://robonerf.github.io/2024/
ViTac 2024: Robot Embodiment through Visuo-Tactile Perception, Friday May 17: https://shanluo.github.io/ViTacWorkshops/
Supervised autonomy: how to shape human-robot interaction from the body to the brain, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/hri-workshop-icra2024
Robots and roboticists in the age of climate change, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/site/adrienescandehomepage/ICRA2024ClimateChange
Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation: Perception, Telecommunication, and Coordination, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/humancentricicra2024
Innovations and Applications of Human Modeling in Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024-workshop-human-phri
How to Ensure Correct Robot Behaviors? Software Challenges in Formal Methods for Robotics, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/fmr-icra2024
Advancing Wearable Devices and Applications through Novel Design, Sensing, Actuation, and AI, Friday May 17: https://icra-2024-wearable-workshop.csail.mit.edu/
Wearable Intelligence for Healthcare Robotics: from Brain Activity to Body Movements, Friday May 17: https://icrawearable.github.io/
Emerging Technologies in Smart Exoskeleton Systems, Friday May 17: https://icra-2024-workshop-exos.github.io/
Expanding Frontiers of Sim2Real: Robotics, biomechanics, plasma physics, chip design, and beyond, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/myosuite/myosymposium/icra24
Nursing Robotics: a new field emerging from the integration between robotics and nursing science, Friday May 17: https://zkks.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ICRA2024/
Speed-dating to long-term relationships: Art-robot Residencies Enabled by Common Language, Friday May 17: https://roboticart.org/icra-2024-workshop/
Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots, Friday May 17: https://harlworkshop.github.io/
2nd Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction, Friday May 17: https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/
Tutorial on Ergodic Control, Friday May 17: https://ergodiccontrol.github.io/
Connected Robotics Platform for ROS Deployment in Real-world Network Settings, Friday May 17: https://github.com/5G-ERA/docs/tree/main/Workshops/ICRA24
How to manage fleets of robots with open source software, Friday May 17: https://www.theconstructsim.com/icra-tutorial-how-to-manage-fleets-of-robots-with-open-source-software/
Riemann and Gauss meet Asimov: 2nd Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2024-tutorial-geometry/
Cloud and Fog Robotics: A Hands-on Tutorial with ROS2 and FogROS2, Friday May 17: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-24-cloud-robotics/home
Choreographic swarms: From scripting to emergent expressive behaviors to CONNECT humans and robots, Friday May 17: https://roboticart.org/icra2024/

Official links

Website: https://2024.ieee-icra.org/