Events

Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium The integration of robots into our daily lives depends on their ability to operate reliably and safely in complex, dynamic environments. Despite significant progress, achieving robust performance under uncertainty remains a major challenge. Real-time robust planning is computationally demanding, particularly for tasks such as whole-body control of multi-body robots or […]

Meeting Room: International Ballroom D (Omni Hotel) This workshop will focus on bridging the gap between state-of-the-art innovation and industrial implementation for flexible manufacturing technologies. By bringing together a global community of manufacturing technologists from academia and industry, we aim to foster open discussions on shopfloor challenges, bottlenecks, and strategies to align future innovations with […]

Meeting Room: International Ballroom A (Omni Hotel) Recent advancements in soft robotic systems have led to innovative solutions across various space applications. These include enhancements in surface and aerial exploration, advanced maintenance and inspection techniques to extend the longevity of space infrastructure, and the development of materials and systems capable of withstanding extreme space conditions. […]

Meeting Room: 405 The workshop "Human-Centric Robotics for Telepresence" aims to explore the impact of telepresence robotics with a focus on enriching user experience and promoting societal well-being. This interdisciplinary event will emphasize the critical role of human factors in shaping robotic applications across industries, healthcare, and beyond. Participants will discuss how both technological and […]

Meeting Room: 403 The rapidly evolving field of cross-domain robotics, particularly amphibious systems, represents a frontier that bridges multiple research communities. This workshop aims to connect researchers studying enabling technologies—such as underwater SLAM and swarm control—with industrial experts developing robotic platforms and scientists utilizing these platforms to study natural environments. By bringing together these diverse […]

Meeting Room: 408 Autonomous robots must operate in real-time within dynamic environments, requiring robust performance across diverse scales. To achieve this, roboticists are increasingly leveraging heterogeneous deployments across edge and cloud infrastructures, while integrating and co-designing robotics algorithms for various computing hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, MCUs, and even custom accelerator ASICs (e.g., Neuromorphic processors). […]

Meeting Room: 313 Robots navigating through uncontrolled human spaces face many challenges due to the uncertainty of human behavior and the unstructured nature of environmental context and social rules. Social robot navigation combines planning with human-robot interaction and communication strategies to provide acceptable, context-dependent robot behavior. With recent rapid transformations in AI, social robot navigation […]