Open Source Robotics

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ICRA 2025

  • Dates: May 19 – 23, 2025
  • Place: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Organiser: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2025 held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The premier robotics conference bringing together researchers and industry professionals.

Keynote speakers

  • Brenna Argall (Northwestern University): Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
  • Robert Gregg (University of Michigan): Towards Versatile Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons: Control Theory Strikes Back
  • Keehoon Kim (POSTECH): Rethinking Robotic Intelligence: From More Control to Better Design
  • Cristina Piazza (TU Munich): Towards Bioinspired Bionic Limbs: From Embodied Intelligence to Neural Control
  • Todd Murphey (Northwestern University): Robot Learning in Isolation
  • Angela Schoellig (TU Munich): Powering Robotics with AI: from robot-specific data to internet-scale knowledge, from improved performance to common-sense behavior?
  • Jana Tumova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Designing Robust Robots Through Rigorous Specifications
  • Ram Vasudevan (University of Michigan): Beyond the Demo: Scene-Savvy Robots That Are Provably Safe
  • Maria Pia Fanti (Polytechnic University of Bari): Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility of People and Goods
  • Ilya Kovalenko (Penn State University): Intelligent and Adaptive Distributed Automation for Industrial Systems
  • Bengt Lennartson (Chalmers University of Technology): Efficient and Unified Planning and Robust Reinforcement Learning
  • Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University): Autonomous Robotics for Efficient Container Package Handling in Logistics
  • Sonia Chernova (Georgia Tech): Autonomy in the Human World: Developing Robots that Handle the Diversity of Human Lives
  • Dongheui Lee (TU Vienna): Challenges in Human-Centric Robotics: Human Intent Reading
  • Harold Soh (National University of Singapore): A Foundation Model for HRI?
  • Holly Yanco (UMass Lowell): Designing Robots for Humans
  • Robert Katzschmann (ETH Zurich): Creating Life-like Robots based on Musculoskeletal Designs and Living Biohybrid Technologies
  • Hugo Rodrigue (Sungkyunkwan University): High-performance Soft Pneumatic Actuation
  • Cynthia Sung (University of Pennsylvania): Leveraging Robot-Fluid Interactions for Efficient Multi-Robot Swimming
  • Wenzhen Yuan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Achieving High-dimensional Sensing with Vision-based Sensors
  • Margarita Chli (University of Cyprus & ETH Zurich): Vision-Based Robotic Perception: Ready for Real-World Deployment?
  • Tobias Fischer (Queensland University of Technology): Visual Place Recognition: Navigating Without GPS Using Bio-Inspired Approaches
  • Joshua Mangelson (Brigham Young University): Perception, Localization, and Mapping for Marine Autonomy at BYU
  • Inna Sharf (McGill University): Robotics for Timber-Harvesting Operations
  • Kyujin Cho (Seoul National University): Bioinspired Gripping: Learning from Nature to Advance Robotic Manipulation
  • Dario Floreano (EPFL): Avian-Inspired Drones
  • Talia Moore (University of Michigan): Bio-inspired design approaches for inertial appendages
  • Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin (University of Notre Dame): Bio-inspiration Strategies for Building Robust Robots for Unconventional Environments
  • Jeremy Brown (Johns Hopkins University): Embodied Intelligence in Prosthetics: A Retrospective on Haptic Feedback, Human-Machine Integration, and User-Centered Design
  • Matej Hoffmann (Czech Technical University in Prague): Robots with a sense of touch
  • Tania Morimoto (UC San Diego): Soft haptic interfaces for teleoperating soft robots
  • Jee-Hwan Ryu (KAIST): How Stiff or Light Can We Go? Passivity-based Approaches for Stable and Transparent Haptic Interaction
  • Hanna Kurniawati (Australian National University): Scalable Long-Horizon Planning in Non-Deterministic and Partially Observed Worlds
  • Jen Jen Chung (University of Queensland): Planning to See and Touch
  • Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv University): Do We Still Need Robot Algorithms?
  • Jing Xiao (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): Robot Action Planning in Unknown and Uncertain Environments
  • Tamim Asfour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Robots Think with their Hands
  • Yasuhisa Hasegawa (Nagoya University): Assist-as-Needed: Robotic Mobility Support for Preserving Human Agency
  • Alberto Rodriguez (Boston Dynamics): The humanoid mission in manufacturing
  • Shuran Song (Stanford University): Making manipulation as simple as possible but not simpler
  • Sarah Bergbreiter (Carnegie Mellon University): Locomotion at Small Scales
  • Cosimo Della Santina (TU Delft): Moving Without Thinking: Embodied Intelligence in Locomotion
  • Hae-Won Park (KAIST): Robot Legged Locomotion Beyond Bioinspiration: Hardware Design and Control Algorithms
  • Ludovic Righetti (New York University): The long and winding road of optimization for legged locomotion
  • Chuchu Fan (MIT): Graph Control Barrier Function for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Safe Control
  • Meng Guo (Peking University): Verified Neural Planner for Multi-robot Systems
  • Changliu Liu (Carnegie Mellon University): Steering Towards Safe Human-AI Interactions
  • Pian Yu (University College London): Formal Verification for Trustworthy Human-Robot Collaboration
  • Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol): Breaking Swarm Stereotypes: Enabling Real-World Applications
  • Dimitra Panagou (University of Michigan): Reliable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems
  • Alyssa Pierson (Boston University): Designing Semi-Cooperative Robots to Improve Team Autonomy
  • Fumin Zhang (HKUST): Opinion Dynamics and Robot Clustering
  • Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Aude Billard (EPFL): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Animesh Garg (Georgia Tech): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Leslie Kaelbling (MIT): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Russ Tedrake (TRI & MIT): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Daniela Rus (MIT): Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
  • Allison Okamura (Stanford University): Haptic Intelligence
  • Tessa Lau (Dusty Robotics): Deploying Robots in Construction
  • Raffaello D'Andrea (ETH Zurich): The Art and Science of Robotics

Workshops

  • 4D Radar Technology and Advanced Sensor Fusion AI, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/icra25-4dradar-tutorial
  • Grand Challenges in Robotics for Nuclear Environments, Monday May 19
  • Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/dexterity-workshop-icra2025/home
  • Robot-Assisted Endovascular Interventions, Monday May 19: https://robomed.gatech.edu/ICRA2025-WS-RAEI/
  • Thermal Infrared in Robotics, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/tiro25
  • 2nd Unconventional Robots: Rethinking Robotic Systems Beyond Convention, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/2nd-unconventional-robots/home
  • 4th Workshop on Future of Construction, Monday May 19: https://construction-robots.github.io/
  • Robotics Startup Bootcamp, Monday May 19: https://www.massrobotics.org/robotics-startup-bootcamp/
  • The Evolving Landscape of Surgical Robotics, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2025-workshop-clsr
  • REaCT: Robotics for Environmental and Climate Assessment, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2025workshop
  • 7th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction, Monday May 19: https://motionpredictionicra2025.github.io/
  • Rust for Robotics, Monday May 19: https://icra25.rust-for-robotics.com
  • State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons, Monday May 19: http://robotics.umich.edu/exos
  • Robot Safety Under Uncertainty from Intangible Specifications, Monday May 19: https://iscicra25.github.io/
  • How do Robots Care? Physically Assistive Robots in Healthcare, Monday May 19: https://www.iit.it/web/hrii/icra2025-workshop
  • Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/theaiinstitute.com/icra-2025-mechanisms-for-manip/home
  • Robots in the Wild, Monday May 19: https://dartmouthrobotics.github.io/icra-2025-robots-wild/
  • Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics, Monday May 19: https://sairlab.org/icra25/
  • 1st Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/roboacoustics
  • Robot Software Architectures 2025, Monday May 19: https://rsa-25.weebly.com/
  • Shared Autonomy for Small-Scale Robots (SASSR), Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2025-ws-sassr/
  • Public Trust in Autonomous Systems, Monday May 19: https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/ptas-icra25
  • Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data, Monday May 19: https://human-cenetered-robot-learning-workshop.github.io/icra-2025/
  • Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection (OCRAIM), Monday May 19: https://ariamhub.com/ocraim/
  • Workshop on Field Robotics, Monday May 19: https://norlab-ulaval.github.io/icra_workshop_field_robotics/
  • Multi-Stable and Origami-based Soft Robots, Monday May 19: https://www.bimultistabilityworkshop.com/
  • Towards Reliable and Trustworthy Embodied AI, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/reliable-embodied-ai/home
  • Enhancing Dexterity in Space Environments: Soft Robotic Systems, Monday May 19: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-space-manipulation
  • Undergraduate Research Outreach Workshops, Monday May 19
  • ICRA 2025 Doctoral Consortium, Monday May 19
  • Multi-Modal Sensing and Shared Control: Wearable Robotics, Monday May 19: https://icra2025multimodalsensingandsharedcontrol.wordpress.com/
  • Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation, Monday May 19: https://contact-rich.github.io
  • Nonverbal Cues for Human-Robot Cooperative Intelligence, Friday May 23: https://nocworkshop.github.io/2025/
  • Pulling the Strings: Puppetry, Choreography, and Control, Friday May 23: https://events.the-rad-lab.org/workshops/icra25-puppets/index.html
  • AQ²UASIM: Marine Applications Simulators, Friday May 23
  • Block by Block: Multi-agent Robotic Construction, Friday May 23: https://cearlab.github.io/blockbyblock.github.io/#
  • Novel Approaches for Precision Agriculture and Forestry, Friday May 23: http://ag-tech-icra2025.com
  • Autonomy Under Duress: Robots in Wildland Fire, Friday May 23: https://goswami78.github.io/ICRA_2025_Workshop/
  • Ubiquitous Medical Robotics, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/umedbot/home
  • 3rd Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (RAMI), Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/rami-icra-2025-workshop/home
  • Towards Human Level Intelligence Vision and Tactile Sensing, Friday May 23: https://shanluo.github.io/ViTacWorkshops/
  • Building a Common Humanoid Platform for AI-based Testing, Friday May 23
  • Mechanical Intelligence in Robotics, Biology, and Smart Materials, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/mechanicalintelligence-icra25/
  • Beyond Pick and Place: Contact-Rich Manipulation, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2025-beyond-pick-place/home
  • Supporting Reproducibility in Soft Robotics, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/softroboticsreproducibility/home
  • Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/safe-vlm-icra/home
  • Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills (RoboLetics 2.0), Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/roboletics2
  • Structured Learning for Efficient, Reliable, and Transparent Robots, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/srl-icra-2025/home
  • 3rd Workshop on Multilateral Human-Interaction-Oriented Teleoperation, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2025-workshop?usp=sharing
  • Bodily Expression for Robots Using Dance Theory and AI, Friday May 23: https://events.the-rad-lab.org/workshops/icra25-notation/index.html
  • 25 years of Aerial Robotics, Friday May 23: https://aerial-robotics-workshop-icra.com
  • Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning, Friday May 23: https://dyalab.mines.edu/2025/icra-workshop/
  • Amphibious Robotics Workshop, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2025-amphibious/home
  • RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/roboarch-icra25
  • Enhancing Human Mobility: Vision to Wearable Assistive Robot Control, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/icra2025-vision-wearable-robot
  • 5th Workshop: Manipulating Deformable Objects, Friday May 23: https://deformable-workshop.github.io/icra2025/
  • The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/intelligent-manufacting-icra25/home
  • Beyond the Lab: Robust Planning and Control in Real World, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/robust-planning-icra2025-ws
  • Soft Robotics for Space Applications, Friday May 23: http://softroboticsforspace.eu
  • Human-Centric Robotics for Telepresence, Friday May 23: https://sites.google.com/view/hcr-tele-icra2025
  • Advances in Social Robot Navigation, Friday May 23: https://socialnav2025.pages.dev/

Official links

  • Website: https://2025.ieee-icra.org/

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