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SUMMARY:Multi-Stable and Origami-based Soft Robots
DESCRIPTION:Bi- and multi-stable structures\, as well as origami structures\, can rapidly release elastic energy during transitions between different equilibrium shapes. These snap-through transitions between stable configurations are characterized by rapid and amplified motions. \nIn recent years\, the application of bi- and multi-stability to soft actuators and robots has attracted significant research interest. These works demonstrated numerous innovative applications of bi- and multi-stability\, which include single-input control mechanisms\, high-speed actuations for jumping robots\, significant shape reconfigurations\, adaptive sensing\, mechanical logic computations\, and more. \nThis workshop aims to showcase recent developments and foster connections among researchers exploring multistability and origami in the field of soft robotics.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/multi-stable-and-origami-based-soft-robots/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Field Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Field robotics tackles the problem of developing\, deploying\, and evaluating autonomous mobile systems in unstructured and often dynamic environments. Typical commercial applications are in agriculture\, construction\, mining\, and forestry. The range of physical mediums is also very diversified: in the air\, on the ground\, underground\, on the water\, and underwater. These can be located on Earth\, or on other celestial bodies (e.g.\, planets\, moons\, or asteroids). \nAs such\, field robotics works under wildly diverse and radically different assumptions than other areas of robotics\, which tend to have well-defined working hypotheses. Therefore\, this creates its own set of challenges. This workshop will thus offer the opportunity to present work and discuss how these unique challenges can be solved. \nThis workshop will bring together experts\, researchers\, and practitioners to discuss the latest advancements in field robotics. Participants will gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities that arise in deploying robots in diverse field scenarios\, such as rugged terrains\, remote locations\, and hazardous environments. \nPractical case studies and real-world applications will be presented to showcase the successful\, and not-so-successful cases of field robotics. The workshop will encourage fruitful dialogues and collaborative discussions\, culminating by a panel at the end of the workshop. \nAttendees will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art technologies\, the main actors\, and upcoming challenges. As major outcomes\, we aim to consolidate the community around field robotics and prepare an editorial article on the current status of robotics deployed in real environments.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/workshop-on-field-robotics/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T142450Z
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SUMMARY:Robot Software Architectures 2025
DESCRIPTION:RSA25 is intended to create a forum where researchers\, practitioners\, and professionals can discuss on principles and practice in the use of advanced software development techniques for building robot software architectures. The Robotics community is aware of the importance that software development principles have in building advanced robotics systems. Several interesting initiatives are taking place in the field of open source development\, distributed middleware\, standard architectures. \nThe nature of the workshop is quite concrete. It is not a tutorial on abstract Software Engineering methodologies and does not present yet another software development process built on proprietary technologies or robotic projects. Instead\, it shows how the state-of-the-art software development practice in robotics meet the principles of software engineering.​
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/third-edition-of-the-full-day-workshop-on-robot-software-architectures/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T154233Z
UID:10000120-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Robots in the Wild
DESCRIPTION:In the field\, we throw robots into the wild to achieve what seems a simple task\, that quickly ends up being arduous. As experts\, we continuously loop through designing\, developing\, deploying\, and analyzing our autonomous systems until it meets some level of success. From marine to forestry\, from mining to agriculture\, no matter the various applications\, field robotics is an ambitious area of work. The standards of success are rising\, given the advancements in robot designs and algorithmic frameworks\, but so too are new challenges arising\, limiting the advancement of field robotics. This workshop brings together experts and new enthusiasts from various subdomains of field robotics — such as marine\, aerial\, legged\, agriculture\, search-and rescue-robotics — to showcase not only the achievements in state-of-the-art field robotics\, but more importantly the respective open challenges. \nOpen questions — spanning from perception and state estimation to control\, planning\, and multi-robot coordination — for each subdomain that the workshop will explore include: What are established successes? What are the common and unique challenges? Why existing systems and algorithms are not working? What are possible solutions? Can solutions to these challenges generalize to other subdomains? What problems should we focus more on? The vision is to create shared perspectives from the various subdomains that will foster the identification of shared challenges and cross-domain solutions\, encourage networking\, exchange of experiences\, project inspirations\, and new collaborations\, towards building robust robots in the wild.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/robots-in-the-wild/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190739Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/workshop-on-mechanisms-in-robot-manipulation-challenges-and-new-opportunities/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T154016Z
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SUMMARY:Robot Safety Under Uncertainty from Intangible Specifications
DESCRIPTION:Robot and automation systems are expected to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks in complex environments. This places stringent expectations on their autonomy stack to enforce operational constraints and safety guarantees. Safe control synthesis methods\, including model predictive control\, reachability analysis\, and control barrier functions\, commonly rely on explicit mathematical definitions of safety constraints with known system and environment models. Nevertheless\, many current applications incorporate perception uncertainty or semantic concepts in the task specifications\, and safety requirements may be specified implicitly\, abstractly\, or incompletely. \nThis workshop aims to investigate the concept and formulation of such “intangible” safety constraints. These constraints may not be specified explicitly as mathematical expressions but described through natural language\, semantic concepts\, observed by sensor data anomalies\, or inferred from demonstrations and prior experience. The techniques required to either identify such safety constraints or to propagate uncertainty through them are largely unexplored. \nOur workshop is interested in various facets of these techniques including: identification of safety constraints from demonstration\, compatibility of learned constraints and control design methodology\, interaction with humans or vision-language models for safety information\, and associated uncertainty quantification. The workshop invites experts in the field to discuss the formulation\, optimization\, and guarantees with intangible safety constraints.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/robot-safety-under-uncertainty-from-intangible-specifications/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T154057Z
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SUMMARY:State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities
DESCRIPTION:Emerging robotic exoskeletons have the potential to enhance performance of non-disabled users\, restore normative leg biomechanics to impaired users\, or rehabilitate limb function after neurological disorders. However\, these devices have not been widely adopted due to their rigidity\, bulkiness\, acoustic noise\, cost\, battery life\, and/or non-intuitive control. While parallel industries are providing powerful\, lightweight\, and inexpensive motors with long-lasting batteries\, the exoskeleton research community is now largely focused on mechanical design\, interface\, and control challenges. \nOne body of work has shown that human walking effort can be reduced by customizing the assistance torque pattern to the user for a given activity through human-in-the-loop optimization. While some results have extended outside the lab\, it is unclear how to quickly generalize these methods across many users and activities. Another body of work has shown that task-agnostic control methods can handle a continuous range of activities without user-specific calibration\, for example\, predicting human joint torques across activities to reduce muscle effort or metabolic cost. \nHowever\, it is unclear how these versatile control methods can be personalized for optimal assistance\, especially for clinical patients. This workshop will explore specificity vs. generalizability across users and activities with the goal of finding benefits from both perspectives. This theme will be discussed as it relates to both control and device hardware optimization.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/state-of-the-art-in-lower-limb-exoskeletons-exploring-specificity-vs-generalizability-across-users-and-activities/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T154203Z
UID:10000117-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:7th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction
DESCRIPTION:The Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) workshop\, taking place every ICRA in 2019–2024\, offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss the many facets of modeling human motion and behavior in various automated systems. To reflect the broad range of engineering challenges in human-aware systems\, we organize the talks of several high-profile invited speakers of diverse academic and industrial backgrounds. Furthermore\, in line with the ICRA 2025 ambition to broaden the scope and exchange knowledge\, we invite several interdisciplinary scholars of human motion with backgrounds in psychology\, sociology\, and biology. \nFollowing the recent trends\, this year\, in all talks\, we aim to raise the key question about the emerging General Intelligence models (e.g.\, LLMs\, Visual-Language models) and the perspectives they bring to the study of human motion\, human-like navigation\, and zero-shot interaction in complex environments. Finally\, owing to the strong community of reviewers\, we open a call for papers\, giving the opportunity to showcase the latest results\, particularly inviting student submissions.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/7th-workshop-on-long-term-human-motion-prediction/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T153351Z
UID:10000105-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:2nd Unconventional Robots: Rethinking Robotic Systems Beyond Convention
DESCRIPTION:When you think about a robot\, what comes to mind? A humanoid\, quadruped\, quadcopter\, or a multi-degree of freedom robot arm? These standard robot morphologies have become widely commercialized and are often our go-to general purpose systems\, benefiting from well-established and accessible tools for working with these robots. However\, when a task falls outside of the operational capabilities of these robots\, this gives us an opportunity to rethink the design of a robot\, making it more unconventional. \nAn unconventional robot design can offer the potential for enhanced capabilities\, improved performance\, and operation in complex and unstructured environments. These designs include exploratory robots for space and Earth sciences\, modular robots for industrial applications and transportation\, and soft robots for medical uses and human interaction. However\, unconventional robots are often underactuated or characterized by high degrees of freedom\, necessitating the development of novel mechanisms\, models\, and control strategies. \nBuilding on our first unconventional robots workshop at ICRA 2024\, this workshop aims to provide a platform to discuss several key questions: \n\nHow can we create systematic approaches for designing\, manufacturing\, and modeling complex robotic systems?\nHow can embodied intelligence be integrated into robot design and control?\nWhat strategies can advance unconventional designs from laboratory settings to real-world applications?\nHow can we bridge the gap between modeling and controlling unconventional robots in simulation and achieving reliable performance in real-world systems?\nHow will specialized systems and standardized robots coexist in the future?\n\nWe aim to bring together researchers and engineers from diverse fields—including mechanism design\, modeling and simulation\, and robotic sensing and control—to share their insights and experiences in developing and advancing unconventional robots.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/2nd-unconventional-robots-rethinking-robotic-systems-beyond-convention/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T153622Z
UID:10000109-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:The Evolving Landscape of Surgical Robotics: Towards AI-Powered Unconventional Instruments and Technologies in the Operating Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Robotic surgery is entering an exciting new era where robots are no longer simply mechanical tools under the direct control of a surgeon\, but rather fully-fledged cyber-physical systems capable of collaborating with doctors to carry out complex procedures. \nWithin this evolving landscape\, unconventional surgical instruments such as lasers\, radiofrequency\, and ultrasound probes are taking an increasingly prominent role\, promising to deliver unprecedented surgical precision and minimal patient trauma. \nThis workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia\, industry\, and the clinical world to discuss the unique opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of unconventional instruments in robotic surgery. The main focus will be on the role of machine learning and AI in the modeling and control of these instruments\, as well as the need for novel robotic designs to accommodate them\, highlighting how these technologies can be integrated with surgical robotics to enhance precision\, adaptability\, and surgical outcomes. \nThe workshop will feature invited talks\, panel discussions\, a rising star session\, an unconventional surgical instrument demo session\, and poster sessions. Findings and conclusions will be summarized into a white paper\, which will be released on arXiv and submitted to a reputable journal for publication.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/the-evolving-landscape-of-surgical-robotics-towards-ai-powered-unconventional-instruments-and-technologies-in-the-operating-theatre/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T153143Z
UID:10000101-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Thermal Infrared in Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Achieving robust autonomy in robotics is challenged by sensor data reliability\, especially in extreme environments. Conventional sensors like RGB cameras fail in low-visibility conditions (e.g.\, smoke\, fog\, low light)\, while active sensors such as Radar and Lidar struggle with reflective medium and particle obscurants and often lack dense information at close range. Thermal infrared cameras offer advantages for robust sensing: they work well in low light\, provide high-resolution imaging\, and are crucial for search and rescue and hazard detection. However\, they face challenges\, such as noise from flat field correction\, ambiguous tone-mapping\, difficult calibration\, and temperature drifts. With the advent of compact\, affordable thermal cameras\, interest in thermal imaging for robotics is growing beyond military and surveillance usage. \nThis workshop aims to advance the emerging field by providing a platform for sharing developments in localization\, mapping\, navigation\, segmentation\, detection\, and other methods tailored for thermal infrared imagery. We will invite leading researchers and experts to share insights and breakthroughs while encouraging contributions from newcomers and diverse backgrounds. Attendees will engage in discussions\, network with experts\, and explore future directions\, making it invaluable for advancing thermal imaging in robotics.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/thermal-infrared-in-robotics/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T153433Z
UID:10000106-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:4th Workshop on Future of Construction: Safe\, Reliable\, and Precise Robots in Construction Environments
DESCRIPTION:Our workshop aims to facilitate discussion on construction robotics with an emphasis on perception and navigation in cluttered scenes\, mapping of as-built environments\, and safety-focused robot-worker interactions. \nThis workshop will provide a venue for academics and industry practitioners to connect and create a vision for robotics in construction work and ensure equitable participation in planning for the future of construction workplaces. The full-day workshop will feature presentations by distinguished speakers from both industry and academia\, a spatio-temporal registration challenge sponsored by Hilti\, as well as interactive activities in the form of poster sessions\, breakout groups\, industry roundtable\, and panel discussions.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/4th-workshop-on-future-of-construction-safe-reliable-and-precise-robots-in-construction-environments/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T185603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T142601Z
UID:10000153-1747643400-1747675800@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands
DESCRIPTION:Multi-fingered robotic hands hold an immense potential for flexible manipulation in human environments. From using tools like scissors to preparing food\, handling cloth\, and robustly tying shoelaces\, many mundane activities are enabled by – or become more flexible with – additional degrees of freedom\, allowing for in-hand manipulation and dexterous environment interaction. With the ongoing waves of advancement in artificial intelligence\, learning techniques\, robust teleoperation\, the proliferation of affordable tactile sensors\, and the expansion of diverse datasets\, we are closer than ever to overcome major existing challenges and unlock unprecedented levels of dexterity in robotic manipulation.However\, we also acknowledge the current state of research: In practical applications\, multi-fingered hands usually demonstrate a lower grasping and manipulation success rate compared to two-fingered parallel grippers; more robotic datasets and benchmarks focus on grippers than on multi-fingered hands; and grippers already serve a wide range of industrial applications. In light of these challenges\, this workshop is dedicated to exploring a critical question: how can we overcome the challenges of dexterous manipulation and unlock the potential of multi-fingered hands? \nThis workshop intends to answer this question in four key aspects: \n1. Investigating Manipulation Limitations: Understanding the constraints linked to mechanical design and control \n2. Examining Advanced Algorithms: Reviewing state-of-the-art algorithms for dexterous manipulation \n3. Enhancing Dexterity and Adaptability: Exploring new paradigms to improve the dexterity and adaptability of robotic hands \n4. Envisioning the Future: Considering how foundational models can revolutionize dexterous manipulation \nThe objective of this workshop is to foster collaboration among researchers at all career stages with a strong interest in robotics\, artificial intelligence\, control theory\, mechanical design\, and related fields.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/handy-moves-dexterity-in-multi-fingered-hands/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T091500
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250324T134156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T134202Z
UID:10000195-1747643400-1747646100@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Opening Remarks and Introductions
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URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/opening-rremarks-and-introductions/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Undergraduate Outreach Workshops
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190741Z
UID:10000093-1739347200-1739379600@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD)
DESCRIPTION:What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) Today (in 2025)\nThere have been lots of awesome works around the topic of bimanual teleoperation and learning from demonstration\, employing various human sensing systems and robot embodiments. To name a few\, ALOHA\, Mobile ALOHA\, DexCap\, Open-TeleVision\, HATO\, GELLO\, AirExo\, UMI\, etc. However\, researchers design and evaluate on tasks that they come up with and perform teleoperation themselves. Also\, there are lots of metrics that are critical for industry that are not evaluated in the academic research works\, such as motion speed\, system robustness\, cost efficiencies\, and difficulty to learn an effective policy. \nTherefore\, there has been a demand in the industry to set up a common set of tasks benchmark that is practically valuable and reflects various axes and levels of difficulty. The goal of this competition is to bring together researchers with industry and figure out the best fits between valuable tasks and technology solutions. \nIn this competition\, participants are invited to use a wide range of ways: puppeteering\, VR\, exoskeleton\, hand-held grippers\, movement-tracking gloves\, or algorithmic human hand sensing to perform challenging and practically valuable manipulation tasks and collect data meanwhile. We will evaluate the teams in terms of their task completion quality\, data collection speed\, and performance of policy learned using the collected data.”
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/what-bimanual-teleoperation-and-learning-from-demonstration-can-do-wbcd/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190742Z
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SUMMARY:PhyRC: Physical Robotic Caregiving Challenge: ICRA 2025 Competition
DESCRIPTION:“Millions of people worldwide require physical assistance with daily tasks\, and with an aging population\, this number is rising. Caregiving robots have the potential to increase care recipient independence and reduce caregiver workload. Despite considerable recent progress in the caregiving robotics field\, it remains challenging to assess the state of the art\, compare different approaches\, and organize efforts around pressing open research questions. Simulation platforms such as RCareWorld and Assistive Gym make significant strides\, but the need for real-world standardization remains. \nThe PhyRC (Physical Robotic Caregiving) Challenge at ICRA 2025 (PhyRC) would be the first ever competition for caregiving robots. Our competition will feature two real-world tasks: (1) robot-assisted dressing; and (2) robot-assisted bed bathing. Dressing and bathing are both crucial activities of daily living (ADLs) that are also very challenging for state-of-the-art robotics\, requiring deformable object manipulation\, physical human-robot interaction\, longhorizon planning\, and reasoning under partial observability.”
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/phyrc-physical-robotic-caregiving-challenge-icra-2025-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190742Z
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SUMMARY:AI Olympics With RealAIGym: Towards Global Policies for Swing up in the Real World
DESCRIPTION:“As artificial intelligence gains new capabilities\, it becomes important to evaluate it on real-world tasks. While software such as ChatGPT has recently revolutionized certain areas of AI\, athletic intelligence seems to still be elusive in the AI community. To have better robots in the future which can perform a wide variety of dynamic tasks in uncertain environments\, the physical or athletic intelligence of robots must be improved. However\, this is quite challenging. In particular\, the fields of robotics and reinforcement learning (RL) lack standardized benchmarking tasks on real hardware. To facilitate reproducibility and stimulate algorithmic advancements\, the 3rd AI Olympics competition is being proposed to be held at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta following the inaugural run at IJCAI 2023 in Macau (https://ijcai-23.dfkibremen. de/competitions/ai_olympics/\, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDH1v1FqF8 for a video summary)\, based on the RealAIGym project and 2nd edition of this competition at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi (https://ai-olympics.dfki-bremen.de/). While the inaugural run of this competition focussed on comparing the performance of various learning and control methods on the real acrobot/pendubot systems\, the second edition at IROS focussed not only on achieving the best scores but also on achieving robustness to disturbances during the execution. \nAt ICRA 2025\, the focus of the challenge would be to develop a global policy that can solve the swing up problem from any configuration in the state space thus improving the controllers in the 3rd edition of this challenge. This will be tested by randomly disturbing the system with very large (compared to IROS 2024) external disturbances while it performs the swingup task. The challenge will involve two stages: simulation and realrobot experiments where teams (and their agents) can compete to get the highest score to win some cool prizes! We invite people from all communities (AI/ML/RL\, Optimal Control\, Heuristics\, etc.) to participate in this competition on a set of standardized dynamic tasks on well-known prototypical systems using standardized hardware.”
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/ai-olympics-with-realaigym-towards-global-policies-for-swing-up-in-the-real-world/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T131800
CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190742Z
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SUMMARY:The 4th Robotic Sim2Real Challenges
DESCRIPTION:“Simulators have significantly accelerated engineering development in robotics\, making a profound impact on advancing technological progress in this field. However\, as simulation models cannot perfectly replicate robots’ behavior in real world\, there exists a notable sim-to-real gap. Given the high cost of acquiring large amounts of real-world robot data\, data augmentation using simulators is an essential step towards advanced robot intelligence. Robotic Sim2Real Challenges aim to encourage more students and researchers to explore the cooperative method using simulators and real-robots\, and to systematically investigate effective approaches for their matching. \nHopefully\, this will lay a theoretical foundation and provide practical experience for the sustainable development of embodied intelligence. Robotic Sim2Real Challenges have already been held for 3 times in conjunction with ICRA Since 20221. For ICRA 2025\, we propose the 4th Robotic Sim2Real Challenges with two tracks: the mobile manipulation track and the flying robot track. The former is a consecutive event of pervious AgileX Sim2Real Challenge (AXS). The latter is a consecutive event of pervious RoboMaster University Sim2Real Challenge (RMUS) with a new flying robot instead of DJI’s RoboMaster EP (DJI’s product EP has been discontinued.). For both tracks\, we provide a photorealistic simulator supporting end-to-end embodied AI model training and parallel reinforcement learning training.”
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/the-4th-robotic-sim2real-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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SUMMARY:The 24th Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix Competition
DESCRIPTION:2025 Theme: MAD-GAMES: Multi-Agent Dynamic Games \nRoboracer Autonomous Racing https://roboracer.ai/is an international competition organized by a community of researchers\, engineers\, and autonomous systems enthusiasts. Roboracer is used in over 89 universities for research\, teaching and participation in competitions. The teams\nparticipating in this Roboracer Grand Prix at ICRA 2025 will build a 1:10 scaled autonomous race car according to a reference specification. The teams write software for this scaled race car to fulfill the objectives for the competition: Don’t crash\, minimize lap time and overtake all opponents. This competition considers the challenging scenario of multi-agent (many-on-many) racing and aims to assess the state-of-the-art for perception\, planning and competitive control algorithms in real world scenarios\, inviting contributions from a broad spectrum of research directions spanning model-based classical planning and control to model-free reinforcement learning end-to-end agile navigation approaches. \nFollowing the success of the Roboracer Autonomous Racing competitions at ICRA’22 Philadelphia (100+ participants and 20 teams)\, and ICRA’23 London (130+ participants and 24 teams)\, ICRA’24 Japan (135+ participants\, 19 teams) for the ICRA 2025 competition we propose to set up the 24th Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix in the form of both: (A) In-person hardware-based competition and a (B) virtual simulation-based race. These versions of the competition allow for accessible and equitable participation of teams worldwide.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/the-24th-roboracer-autonomous-grand-prix-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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SUMMARY:Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition
DESCRIPTION:The 10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA 2025. RGMC has been running for nine editions at either the IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) or the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)\, since 2016 [1]. Across the editions\, we engaged the community with various tasks for manufacturing\, service robots\, and logistics. These tasks include assembling and disassembling boards\, hand-in-hand grasping\, picking and placing various objects\, pouring liquids into a cup\, bin picking\, rearranging and setting formal tables\, folding and unfolding cloths\, and receiving objects handed over by a person. RGMC will advance research and technology towards more realistic scenarios that can be encountered in daily activities at home or in warehouses\, and will increase the interest of the community in solving the open challenges associated with robotic grasping and manipulation.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/robotic-grasping-and-manipulation-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competitions,Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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SUMMARY:Quadruped Robot Challenges(QRC)
DESCRIPTION:Autonomy requires a good mobile platform\, perception technologies\, navigation technologies\, etc. Quadruped robots were never tested in a realistic common challenging environment in an autonomous way before ICRA 2023. Quadruped robots are inherently dynamic; thus\, their competition is interesting to the audience and public and may draw the attention of potential sponsors. \nQuadruped Robot Challenges (QRC) was inaugurated in ICRA 2023 to test teams for autonomous traversability on various kinds of terrains. At Stage 1\, each robot runs the test field alone\, solo start. Due to the short notice of the game\, many teams used remote control. Only two teams challenged in autonomy. In Stage 1+ which is about the mobility with inspection test at ICRA 2024 and IROS 2024\, we witnessed more teams use autonomy and an exploration mission is still difficult for autonomous robots. \nAs a next step\, ICRA 2025 QRC will move to Stage 2 where the multiple robot collaboration concept will be introduced. Teams may need to deal with more advanced tasks\, dynamic obstacles\, real-time perception\, and planning in this stage.
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/quadruped-robot-challengesqrc/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Workshops & Tutorials
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