ICRA 2027 Competitions
The five competitions of ICRA 2027 are waiting for their audience and participants.
This year we will also have an Award Ceremony specifically for the competitions!
QUICK LINKS:
- COMP 1 – Humanoid Manufacturing Challenge
- COMP 2 – IEEE-RAS Legged Robot Challenges (LRC) and Wearable Robot Systems (WRS)
- COMP 3 – Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC)
- COMP 4 – The 32nd RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition
- COMP 5 – PhyRC 2027: Physical Robotic Caregiving Challenge
For any inquiries related to ICRA 2027 Competition, please feel free to reach out to the Competition Secretariat.
Humanoid Manufacturing Challenge
Humanoid Manufacturing Challenge evaluates a humanoid robot’s ability to perform a complete, realistic manufacturing workflow — part identification, part transport, sequential assembly, and wheel mounting/fastening — under both teleoperated and autonomous control. A single humanoid robot must (A) visually identify and sort five target parts from a mixed bin, (B) grasp and transport boxes between a conveyor and a delivery table, (C) insert bolts into a peg fixture in a commanded sequence, and (D) mount a wheel onto a hub and fasten it with a power drill.
The competition provides one of the few standardized, scored benchmarks for humanoid task performance under realistic industrial conditions, evaluating both remote operation and autonomous execution side-by-side.
IEEE-RAS Legged Robot Challenges (LRC) and Wearable Robot Systems (WRS)
The IEEE-RAS Legged Robot Challenges (LRC) – previously Quadruped Robot Challenges (QRC) – evaluate remotely-operated and autonomous legged robots on standardized terrains, obstacles, and embedded inspection or manipulation tasks. The objective is to quantitatively measure robot mobility, perception, manipulation, and autonomy capabilities in environments representative of disaster-response scenarios.
This year we would expand the challenge to include wearable robotic systems to bring together two rapidly advancing areas of robotics.
In both the legged and wearable challenges, we are trying to solve the same fundamental challenges: advanced mobility over complex terrain, maintaining stability and performing dexterous tasks in an unstructured environment.
Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC)
RGMC assesses autonomous manipulation of unknown or novel objects under real-world uncertainty, cluttered scenes, random configurations, and human interaction, evaluating participating systems with peer-reviewed benchmarking protocols developed by the organizing team. The 2027 edition features 5 tracks: 1) Pick-in-Clutter, 2) Human-to-Robot, 3) Cloud, 4) Mobile Manipulation, 5) Simulation-Sorting track
RGMC aims at assessing the autonomous manipulation capabilities of robotic systems when dealing with unknown or novel objects with varying physical properties.
The 32nd RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition
At ICRA 2027, we will host a new and more challenging 3D RoboRacer Race using a new reference platform RoboRacer-Max platform racing on a non-planar off-road racetrack. 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 in real-world scenarios, inviting contributions from a broad spectrum of research directions spanning model-based classical control to model-free reinforcement learning approaches. This series explicitly targets advanced research in robust control and terrain-aware navigation in “wild” environments using 3D visual slam sensing.
PhyRC 2027: Physical Robotic Caregiving Challenge
Over one billion people worldwide require assistance to carry out daily tasks, and with a rapidly aging population this number continues to rise. Caregiving robots have the potential to increase care-recipient independence and reduce caregiver workload.
PhyRC 2027 is designed around exactly that gap. We propose a single track, robot-assisted dressing with closed-geometry garments, executed by two coordinated Stretch-4 mobile manipulators. The competition features a single, deeper task: bimanual mobile manipulation for robot-assisted dressing with closed-geometry garments, performed by two coordinated Hello Robot Stretch-4 mobile manipulators.