IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

📺 All of the ICRA 2025 Keynote and Plenary sessions are now available to watch on YouTube! Watch all 60+ sessions here: https://loom.ly/BHMEhts #IEEE #ICRA2025 #Robotics #Automation

My #ICRA2025 plenary talk is available on YouTube. Enjoy! "Rewired: The Interplay of Robots and Society" Seventy-five years after the first industrial robots tackled the three D’s – dirty, dull, and dangerous work – today’s robots inhabit our homes, hospitals, and even our bodies. They can heal or harm, displace jobs or create new ones, isolate or connect us. In this talk, I trace the dynamic interplay between robotics and society through examples in human-robot physical interaction and medical applications. I begin with teleoperated surgical systems, which are now a staple in operating rooms, and move to 3D robotic bioprinters that aim to fabricate organs. Next, I explore in-home care solutions driven by demographic shifts, such as declining birth rates, immigration policies, and longer lifespans. Through alternative morphologies such as everting “vine robots” that lift non-ambulatory patients and enable soft, self-donning garments, I demonstrate how innovative designs enrich the ways robots can assist us with daily life. Advances in robot brains and bodies not only open new possibilities, but also compel us to rethink what care, agency, and connection mean in a world that may soon depend on these machines. Thank you to the sponsors and collaborators involved in the projects highlighted in this talk, including National Science Foundation (NSF), The National Institutes of Health, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford Robotics Center, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Intuitive, Amy Zegart, Martin Giles, Steve Collins, Sean Follmer, Maarten Lansberg, Thad Starner, Mark Skylar-Scott, Mac Schwager, Harry Asada, Jee-Hwan Ryu, and dozens of brilliant, hardworking students and postdocs, both past and present. It's a privilege to work with you to advance robotics for human health and wellbeing.

🤖✨ In 5 years, robots will...? 📹 Watch the video to see what #ICRA2025 attendees have to say. 💬 Share your predictions in the comments 👇 #IEEE #Robotics #Automation #Robots

📸✨The #ICRA2025 photo album is now ready to view! Relive exciting moments from the week here: https://loom.ly/6qPNrPU

🤖🧡 Texas Robotics at #ICRA2025. Mechanical Engineering grad student Mobina Tavangarifard joined Susheela Sharma, Omid Rezayof, Daniyal Maroufi, and lab director Dr. Farshid Alambeigi from the Advanced Robotics Technologies for Surgery (ARTS) Lab in Atlanta for one of the world’s top robotics conferences. With three ARTS Lab students presenting accepted papers at #ICRA2025, it was a remarkable showing and a proud moment for the The University of Texas at Austin community. Special thanks to Mobina Tavangarifard for capturing these moments from the conference! IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) The University of Texas at Austin

Well done to the CHART RoboNotts team on winning the Physical Robotic Caregiving Bed Bathing Challenge at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, USA last week! 👏 Yuhe Gong Simon Castle-Green Luis Figueredo Liz Felton (team co-lead) Aly Magassouba (team co-lead) Praminda Caleb-Solly Koyo Fujii Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies

Excited to share that our team won 3rd place in the Logistics Packing track at the first-ever What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) competition at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 representing Purdue University. Our solution involved using a Meta Quest headset to “teleport” into the robot’s perspective for intuitive teleoperation, allowing us to efficiently pack 10 diverse objects - from a Coke can and a ball to a pen and more. We had originally planned to deploy our autonomous UMI policy for selected objects. However, unforeseen software and hardware challenges meant our team had to shift focus to debugging and remote teleoperation. Although we couldn’t showcase our autonomy this time, the experience was invaluable and has motivated us to push for an autonomous solution in future editions! I’m incredibly grateful to my talented teammates: Pengyuan Guo , Zhonghao Mai , Dwijen Chawra , Renhong Zhang and Seungho Han. Special thanks to Professor Yu She , PhD student mentor Zhengtong Xu and everyone at the Purdue Mechanisms And Robotic Systems Lab (MARS) for your invaluable guidance, mentorship, and technical support throughout this journey. Also thankful to Purdue University Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks for their generous travel grant. Finally, sincere appreciation to the WBCD organizing team: Zhuo Xu , Peter KT Yu and everyone who made this competition a success. Your efforts created an incredible platform for learning, growth, and international collaboration. #PurdueUniversity #ICRA2025 #Robotics #WBCD

#ICRA2025 is a wrap! Thank you IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). From simulation to real-world deployment, the systems we saw at ICRA rely on more than smart models. They depend on scalable and customizable data annotation, real-world or simulated data collection, and product testing solutions that are helping robotics teams build smarter, safer, and quicker. That’s where we help you build what's next by helping teams turn complexity into clarity, at scale. See how we support robotics teams from data to deployment. 🤖: https://lnkd.in/dPRQh_t6 📸: Zach Holms

Raptors PL has joined the ICRA 2025 Satellite Conference Center organized by RAS Polish Chapter at the Lodz univers of Technology (Politechnika Łódzka) in the Design-4-All creative centre ⚙️ We are building our robots while waiting for the next day of thrilling presentations streamed from Atlanta. 👉 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 👉 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society 👉 IEEE #ICRA2025 #fablab #raptorspl

🏆 Best Student Paper Award – ICRA 2025 🏆 Super mega happy to share that our paper: “ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows” has been awarded Best Student Paper at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, the leading international conference in robotics! In this work, we introduce ShadowTac, a tactile sensor that uses colored shadows to measure rich, 3D deformation across a curved surface. It’s a simple yet powerful approach to creating a sensing skin capable of capturing the full range of what can be felt through touch, including complex phenomena like incipient slip, which we can also regulate during robotic manipulation. This opens exciting possibilities for more dexterous, sensitive, and responsive robots. We’ve also open-sourced the design and code, making them available to the entire research community. Curious to see what you'll build with it! 🔗 Try it yourself: https://lnkd.in/efGHnv49 📄 Paper: https://lnkd.in/eEn33kN9 🎥 Paper video: https://lnkd.in/e526WgSq 🎥 Grasp regulation: https://lnkd.in/evtKhcYB This award means a great deal to me as a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology, where I’m proud to be part of the Cognitive Robotics Department (CoR), and especially the Tactile Machine Lab. It’s a truly inspiring environment that pushes the frontiers of robotics, tactile sensing, and human–robot interaction every day. I’m especially grateful to: • Basile Pasquale, our brilliant co-author. His energy and hard work were central to making this work possible. • Michaël Wiertlewski, my supervisor. His mentorship, insight, and unwavering support have shaped not only this research but also my development as a scientist. I feel truly fortunate to learn from and work alongside him. Big thanks as well to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) committee for this recognition, and to everyone at TU Delft who helps make it such a great place to do research. TU Delft | Mechanical Engineering #ICRA2025 #TUdelft #BestStudentPaperAward #Robotics #TactileSensing #HumanRobotInteraction #ShadowTac #PhDlife #IEEE #OpenSource #SensingSkin #NWO