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Program

Deadlines

Date
Extended Abstract:June 30, 2024
Video Submissions:June 30, 2024
Journal Paper Transfer:June 30, 2024
Distinguished Talks:June 30, 2024
Notification of Acceptance:July 15, 2024
Final Submission of Contribution:July 31, 2024

Call for Contributions – Important Dates

Date
Distinguished Talk Abstract and Bio Submission Deadline7-July-24
Transfer of Accepted T-RO, RA-L, RAM and T-ASE papers7-July-24
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline7-July-24
Stand-Alone Video Submission Deadline7-July-24
Notification of Acceptance Extended Abstracts15-July-24
Notification of Acceptance Stand-alone Videos15-July-24
Extended Abstract Final Submission Deadline31-July-24
Stand-alone Video Final Submission Deadline31-July24
Author Registration Deadline31-July-24
Early Registration Deadline31-July-24

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Schedule-at-a-glance

This is a tentative schedule and may change. All changes will be posted on this website.

  Mo., Sept 23 Tue., Sept 24 Wed., Sept 25 Thu., Sept 26
09:00-
10:30		 Welcome Keynotes 4 Keynotes 7 Keynotes 10
Keynotes 1
10:30- 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-
12:30		 Keynotes 2 Keynotes 5 Keynotes 8 Keynotes 11
Awards*
12:30-
13:15		 Interactive
Sessions 1		 Interactive
Sessions 3		 Interactive
Sessions 5		 Interactive
Sessions 7
13:15-
14:15		 Lunch Break + Arena Lunches and Debates
14:15-
15:00		 Interactive
Sessions 2		 Interactive
Sessions 4		 Interactive
Sessions 6		 Interactive
Sessions 8
15:00-
16:30		 Keynotes 3 Keynotes 6 Keynotes 9 Keynotes 12
16:30-
17:00		 Coffee Break
17:00-
17:30		 Industry
Pitches 1		 Industry
Pitches 2		 Industry
Pitches 3		 Industry
Pitches 4
17:30-
18:30		 Debate &
Panel 1		 Debate &
Panel 2		 Debate &
Panel 3		 Debate &
Panel 4
 
18:30 Welcome
Reception		 Farewell
Reception
19:30 Happy
Birthday
ICRA
 
20:00
20:30  
22:30      
* Robotics Medal and Rising Star Award

Debates and Panels

Visit the Debates and Panels page for more information.

Keynotes Program

Monday, September 23

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
09:10 – 10:30 Keynote Session 1

Yasuo Kuniyoshi
From Embodiment to Super-Embodiment: An Approach to Open-Ended and Human Aligned Intelligence/Mind
Atsuo Takanishi
Bipedal Walking Robot Developments in The Early Days, 1960s to 1980s, in Japan
Antonio Bicchi
Learning from Humans How to Manipulate with Compliant, Underactuated, and Environment-driven hands
Sangbae Kim
Physical intelligence and Cognitive Biases Toward AI
Bruno Siciliano
A Revolutionary Theranostics Approach for Robotized Colonoscopy
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Complexities of a Co-Design Approach to Developing Social Robots for Real World Applications
Ken Goldberg
Is Data All You Need?
Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Session 2

Jan Peters
Inductive Biases for Robot Learning
Davide Scaramuzza
Agile Robotics: from Cameras to Neuromorphic Sensors
Yukie Nagai
Embodied Predictive Processing: New Horizons in Cognitive Developmental Robotics
Rüdiger Dillmann
tbd
Dongheui Lee
Human-Centric Approaches for Robot Learning and Interaction with Human
Karinne Ramirez-Amaro
Learning the How and Why from Experience: Combining Interpretable and Explainable Methods in Robot Decision-Making
Fumitoshi Matsuno
Beyond Living Things – Bio-inspired robots and disaster response robotics
12:30 – 13:15 Interactive Session 1
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break + Arena Lunches and Debates
14:15 – 15:00 Interactive Session 2
15:00 – 16:30 Keynote Session 3

Oussama Khatib
The Journey of Robotics
Ruzena Bajcsy
Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania from Birth to Maturity: A Review of 30 Years of Research
Matthew Mason
Lessons from Warehouse Robotics: From Warehouses to Kitchens
Peter Corke
The Robotics Toolbox – 30 years old and still going strong
Lydia Kavraki
30 Years of Sampling-based Motion Planners: from Minutes to Microseconds
Daniel Koditschek
From Learning to Innovation
Roland Siegwart
Flying Robots – From Basic Flight Capabilities to Autonomous Navigation and In-flight Physical Interactions
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Industry Pitches 1

PAL Robotics – Francesco Ferro

Asimovo – Christine Fraser

euRobotics – Reinhard Lafrenz
17:30 – 18:30 Debate & Panel 1

Progress we made
18:30 – 20:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, September 24

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
09:10 – 10:30 Keynote Session 4

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
Allison Okamura
Wearable Haptic Devices for Ubiquitous Communication
Domenico Prattichizzo
Wearable Haptics: From Robotics to Potential Cancer Treatments
Dieter Fox
Where is RobotGPT?
Kostas Daniilidis
Efficient Robot Perception Through Symmetry, Active Sensing, and Event-Vision
Greg Hager
Toward Flexible Vision-Enabled System for the Physical World: Are We There Yet?
Jana Kosecka
Finding Objects in the Era of Large Vision and Language Models
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Session 5

Bradley Nelson
The Robotics Part of Micro and Nano Robots
Fumihito Arai
Micro and Nano Robotics – Manipulation and Automation at Small Scales in Biomedical Field
Nicholas Roy
Hierarchy, Abstractions and Geometry
Gordon Cheng
Tactile Intelligence for Robots
Giulio Sandini
From Active Vision to iCub and the Elusive Quest for Cognition
Elena de Momi
Autonomy in robotic surgery – from the bench to the bedside
Kyujin Cho
Soft Wearable Robots: Creating Technology to Enhance Human Capabilities
12:30 – 13:15 Interactive Session 3
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break + Arena Lunches and Debates
14:15 – 15:00 Interactive Session 4
15:00 – 16:30 Keynote Session 6

Manuela Veloso
Towards a Seamless Integration of Humans and Mobile Task Robots
James Kuffner
Building Safe Intelligent Machines
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Will Humanoid and AI Show a Vista of the Intelligence?
Vincent Vanhoucke
Foundation Models for Robotics
Wolfram Burgard
Probabilistic and Deep Learning Techniques for Robot Navigation and Automated Driving
Yiannis Aloimonos
Embodied, Perceptually Grounded Robotics
Oliver Brock
Intelligence: Artificial, Biological, Embodied
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Industry Pitches 2

Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Bram Vanderborght

Boskalis – Sebastian Henrion, Harold van Heukelum

SPRINT Robotics – Niels Westendorp
17:30 – 18:30 Debate & Panel 2

Robot Intelligence
19:30 – 20:30 VIP Dinner

Wednesday, September 25

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
09:10 – 10:30 Keynote Session 7

Satoshi Tadokoro
Rescue Robotics Challenge for 2050
Raja Chatila
The “Intelligent Connection of Perception to Action”
Carme Torras
Robotics in healthcare – Closing the reality gap through co-design and technoethics education
Giorgio Metta
Building Components of Human-Robot Interaction on the iCub Humanoid Robot
Yi Guo
Bridging Model-Based and Learning-Based Control Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems
Sven Behnke
Towards Conscious Service Robots
Darius Burschka
Understanding of Motion in Static and Dynamic Environments from Monocular Video Streams – Evolution of Optical Flow Research in Robotics
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Session 8

Paolo Dario
tbd
Daniela Rus
tbd
Brian Scassellati
Robots that Support Human Cognitive and Social Skills
Arash Ajoudani
Autonomous and Human-Collaborative Mobile Manipulation through Hybrid Learning and Control
Jens Kober
Robots Learning Through Interactions
Cynthia Breazeal
Social Robots: Reflections and Predictions of Our Future Relationship with Personal Robots

Robotics Medal and Rising Star Award
12:30 – 13:15 Interactive Session 5
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break + Arena Lunches and Debates
14:15 – 15:00 Interactive Session 6
15:00 – 16:30 Keynote Session 9

Alessandro De Luca
Safe Control of Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Jean-Jacques Slotine
Stable Adaptation and Learning
Alin Albu-Schäffer
The Journey of Embodied Intelligence and Energy-aware Control
Clément Gosselin
Low-Impedance Robotics – Designing the Next Generation of Collaborative Robots
Alícia Casals
Redundancy in multi-arm platforms — A trade-off for its usability in surgical robotics
Ludovic Righetti
Is Locomotion a Solved Algorithmic Problem?
Marc Raibert
tbc
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Industry Pitches 3

Roboception – Michael Suppa

PULSAR HRI – Miguel López

Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI) – Huub Janssen

Haption – Jean-François de Sallier
17:30 – 18:30 Debate & Panel 3

Robot Intelligence
19:30 – 22:30 Happy Birthday ICRA

Thursday, September 26

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
09:10 – 10:30 Keynote Session 10

Dong-Soo Kwon
Robotic Ureteroscopy System: from Research to Commercialization
Kevin Lynch
Chasing Dexterity: Autonomous and Human-Collaborative Robot Manipulation
Michael Yu Wang
Robot Manipulation Skill Learning and Engineering
Jing Xiao
Robotic Perception-Action Synergy in Unknown and Uncertain Environments
Maria Gini
The many facets of allocation of tasks to robots
Thomas Henderson
Safe UAS Traffic Management in the Context of Urban Air Mobility
Abderrahmane Kheddar
Are Humanoids Ready for the Job?
Eiichi Yoshida
Unified Data-Driven Anthropomorphic Contact-Rich Motion Synthesis
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Session 11

Steven LaValle
Planning Algorithms: Past, Present, and Possible Future
Zexiang Li
From Robotics competition to education innovation and startups
Dario Floreano
From flying animals to drones and back
Anibal Ollero
Toward Bioinspired and Soft Aerial Robotics
Soon-Jo Chung
Learning and Decision Making for Fast Robots under Failures
Antonio Franchi
Aerial Robotics: Lessons Learned and Future Directions in Modelling and Control
Marco Pavone
Rethinking AV Development with AV Foundation Models
Georgia Chalvatzaki
Mobile Manipulation Skills & Why We Need Them
12:30 – 13:15 Interactive Session 7
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break + Arena Lunches and Debates
14:15 – 15:00 Interactive Session 8
15:00 – 16:30 Keynote Session 12

Barbara Mazzolai
EcoRobots: Soft Machines for Sustainable Environmental Applications
Marcia O’Malley
Haptics – Augmenting Human Performance with Touch Feedback
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Open Continuum Robotics
Josie Hughes
Towards Robust Robots by Building Embodied Intelligence
Kenji Suzuki
Advancing Human Capabilities from Assistive Robotics to Wearable Cyborgs
Heike Vallery
Paradigm Shifts and Technological Enablers in Rehabilitation Robotics
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Industry Pitches 4

University of Twente Robotics Centre – Steven van Roon

Avular – Tess Kolkman

Xsens | Movella – Gijs Heutink

WaveHexaPod – Johan Paulides
17:30 – 18:30 Debate & Panel 4

Ethics and Responsible Robotics
19:30 – 20:00 Farewell Reception