Distinguished Speakers

Meet Our Distinguished Speakers
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Arash Ajoudani

Italian Institute of Technology

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Alin Albu-Schaeffer

DLR – German Aerospace Center

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Yiannis Aloimonos

University of Maryland

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Fumihito Arai

The University of Tokyo

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Sven Behnke

University of Bonn, Germany

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Antonio Bicchi

IIT

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Ruzena Bajcsy

University of Pennsylvania

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Cynthia Breazeal

MIT

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Darius Burschka

Technische Universität München

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Oliver Brock

Technische Universität Berlin

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Wolfram Burgard

University of Technology Nuremberg

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Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

University of Toronto

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Alicia Casals

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & RobSurgicalSystems

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Georgia Chalvatzaki

TU Darmstadt

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Raja Chatila

Sorbonne University

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Gordon Cheng

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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Kyujin Cho

SNU

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Soon-Jo Chung

Caltech

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Peter Corke

Queensland University

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Kostas Daniilidis

University of Pennsylvania

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Paolo Dario

The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

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Kerstin Dautenhahn

University of Waterloo

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Alessandro De Luca

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Elena De Momi

Politecnico di Milano

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Ruediger Dillmann

KIT

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Dario Floreano

EPFL

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Dieter Fox

University of Washington / NVIDIA

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Antonio Franchi

Univ. Twente and Sapienza Univ. Rome

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Maria Gini

University of Minnesota

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Ken Goldberg

UC Berkeley

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Clément Gosselin

Université Laval

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Roderic Grupen

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Yi Guo

Stevens Institute of Technology

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Greg Hager

John Hopkins University

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Thomas Henderson

University of Utah

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Josie Hughes

EPFL

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Lydia Kavraki

Rice University

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Oussama Khatib

Stanford University

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Abderrahmane Kheddar

CNRS-AIST JRL, Japan and CNRS-UM LIRMM, France

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Sangbae Kim

MIT

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Jens Kober

TU Delft

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Daniel Koditschek

University of Pennsylvania

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Jana Kosecka

George Mason University

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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

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James Kuffner

Toyota Motor Corporation

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi

The University of Tokyo

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Dong-Soo Kwon

KAIST/ROEN Surgical

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Steven LaValle

University of Oulu

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Dongheui Lee

TU Wien

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Zexiang Li

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Kevin Lynch

Northwestern University

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Matthew Mason

Carnegie Mellon University and Berkshire Grey

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Fumitoshi Matsuno

Osaka Institute of Technology

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Barbara Mazzolai

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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Giorgio Metta

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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Yukie Nagai

The University of Tokyo

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Yoshihiko Nakamura

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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Bradley Nelson

ETH ZURICH

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Marcia O'Malley

Rice University

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Allison Okamura

Stanford University

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Anibal Ollero

Universidad de Sevilla and CATEC Aerospace Technology Center

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Jamie Paik

EPFL

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Marco Pavone

Stanford University and NVIDIA

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Jan Peters

TU Darmstadt & DFKI

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Domenico Prattichizzo

University of Siena and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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Marc Raibert

The AI Institute

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Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Chalmers University of Technology

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Ludovic Righetti

New York University

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Nicholas Roy

MIT

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Daniela Rus

CSAIL / MIT

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Giulio Sandini

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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Davide Scaramuzza

University of Zurich

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Brian Scassellati

Yale University

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Bruno Siciliano

University of Naples Federico II

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Roland Siegwart

ETH ZURICH

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Jean-Jacques Slotine

MIT

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Kenji Suzuki

University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Satoshi Tadokoro

Tohoku University

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Atsuo Takanishi

Waseda University

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Carme Torras

Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC

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Heike Vallery

RWTH Aachen

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Vincent Vanhoucke

Waymo

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Manuela Veloso

JPMorganChase & CMU

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Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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Michael Yu Wang

Great Bay University

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Jing Xiao

WPI

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Eiichi Yoshida

Tokyo University of Science

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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

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

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

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

17:30 – 18:30	Debate & Panel 4
Ethics and Responsible Robotics

19:30 – 20:00	Farewell Reception

Distinguished Speakers

Meet Our Distinguished Speakersor view to the program

Arash Ajoudani

Alin Albu-Schaeffer

Yiannis Aloimonos

Fumihito Arai

Sven Behnke

Antonio Bicchi

Ruzena Bajcsy

Cynthia Breazeal

Darius Burschka

Oliver Brock

Wolfram Burgard

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Alicia Casals

Georgia Chalvatzaki

Raja Chatila

Gordon Cheng

Kyujin Cho

Soon-Jo Chung

Peter Corke

Kostas Daniilidis

Paolo Dario

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Alessandro De Luca

Elena De Momi

Ruediger Dillmann

Dario Floreano

Dieter Fox

Antonio Franchi

Maria Gini

Ken Goldberg

Clément Gosselin

Roderic Grupen

Yi Guo

Greg Hager

Thomas Henderson

Josie Hughes

Lydia Kavraki

Oussama Khatib

Abderrahmane Kheddar

Sangbae Kim

Jens Kober

Daniel Koditschek

Jana Kosecka

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

James Kuffner

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Dong-Soo Kwon

Steven LaValle

Dongheui Lee

Zexiang Li

Kevin Lynch

Matthew Mason

Fumitoshi Matsuno

Barbara Mazzolai

Giorgio Metta

Yukie Nagai

Yoshihiko Nakamura

Bradley Nelson

Marcia O'Malley

Allison Okamura

Anibal Ollero

Jamie Paik

Marco Pavone

Jan Peters

Domenico Prattichizzo

Marc Raibert

Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Ludovic Righetti

Nicholas Roy

Daniela Rus

Giulio Sandini

Davide Scaramuzza

Brian Scassellati

Bruno Siciliano

Roland Siegwart

Jean-Jacques Slotine

Kenji Suzuki

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