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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024634
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024634
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
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024634
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024634
CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190741Z
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000
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CREATED:20250213T190939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T190741Z
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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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CREATED:20240426T135310Z
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UID:10000007-1741219200-1741305599@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Final Paper Submission Deadline
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URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/final-paper-submission-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250313
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20241024T175704Z
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UID:10000016-1741737600-1741823999@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Author Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about registration here >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/author-registration-deadline/
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CREATED:20250326T202603Z
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UID:10000209-1742515200-1742601599@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:ICRA Expo Submissions Open
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/icra-expo-submissions-open/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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UID:10000212-1743120000-1743206399@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:ICRA Expo Finalization of Demo Program and Demo Space Allocation
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/icra-expo-finalization-of-demo-program-and-demo-space-allocation/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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CREATED:20250314T134122Z
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UID:10000183-1743379200-1743465599@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline
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URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/doctoral-consortium-submission-deadline/
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CREATED:20250317T141830Z
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UID:10000188-1744329600-1744415999@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Deadline for Submission of Late Breaking Results Poster
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/deadline-for-submission-of-late-breaking-results-poster/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250412
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250326T202634Z
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UID:10000210-1744329600-1744415999@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:ICRA Expo Submission Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/icra-expo-submission-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T135634Z
UID:10000184-1744588800-1744675199@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Doctoral Consortium Notification
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/doctoral-consortium-notification/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20241024T175830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T171244Z
UID:10000017-1744934400-1745020799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Early-bird Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about registration here >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/early-bird-registration-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Attendees
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250314T135859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T135859Z
UID:10000186-1744934400-1745020799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Doctoral Consortium Early Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/doctoral-consortium-early-registration-deadline/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250317T141930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T141930Z
UID:10000189-1744934400-1745020799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Acceptance Decision for Call for Late Breaking Results
DESCRIPTION:Learn more >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/acceptance-decision-for-call-for-late-breaking-results/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250422
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250326T202732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T202732Z
UID:10000211-1745193600-1745279999@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:ICRA Expo Notification of Acceptance and Demo Space Allocation
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/icra-expo-notification-of-acceptance-and-demo-space-allocation/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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CREATED:20250317T142055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T142055Z
UID:10000190-1745539200-1745625599@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Submission of Final Materials for Call for Late Breaking Results
DESCRIPTION:Learn more >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/submission-of-final-materials-for-call-for-late-breaking-results/
CATEGORIES:Contributors
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250429
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250314T135803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T135803Z
UID:10000185-1745798400-1745884799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Doctoral Consortium Camera Ready Submission
DESCRIPTION:Learn More >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/doctoral-consortium-camera-ready-submission/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250518
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20241024T175858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T175858Z
UID:10000018-1747440000-1747526399@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Standard Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about registration here >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/standard-registration-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Attendees
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250524
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20241024T175943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T163201Z
UID:10000019-1747526400-1748044799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:On-site Registration
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about registration here >
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/on-site-registration/
CATEGORIES:Attendees,Exclude from Schedule
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250524
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20240508T192909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T171627Z
UID:10000008-1747612800-1748044799@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/2025-ieee-international-conference-on-robotics-automation/
CATEGORIES:Exclude from Schedule
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T091500
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250324T134156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T134202Z
UID:10000195-1747643400-1747646100@2026.ieee-icra.org
SUMMARY:Opening Remarks and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://2026.ieee-icra.org/event/opening-rremarks-and-introductions/
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Undergraduate Outreach Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260610T024635
CREATED:20250213T190935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T153351Z
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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/
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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
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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/
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