The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will be held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13 to 17. This event will feature plenary sessions, keynote speeches, technical sessions, posters, workshops, and tutorials.
all speakers
There are three plenary sessions at this year’s conference.
- Yoky Matsuoka – How to Turn Robotics Technicians into Corporate Explorers
- Sami Hadadin – The Great Robot Accelerator: Collective Learning in Optimal Embodied AI
- Sunil K Agrawal – Rehabilitation Robotics: How to improve the daily functioning of people with disabilities?
keynote speech
There will be 15 keynote speeches, including:
- Liu Lianqing – Bio-integrated sensing, actuation and intelligence for robotics
- Dunn M. Tilbury – Digital twin for manufacturing automation
- Claudio Pacchierotti – Beyond force feedback: skin haptics in human-centered robotics
- cable – Medical robots for cell surgery – science and applications
- Yasuhisa Hirata – Adaptive AI-based robots to create a vibrant society – Moonshot R&D project in Japan
- Carlin Belta – Official method for safety-critical controls
- Manuel Catalano – Robots in the Wild: From the Lab to the Real World
- harold sow – Building guidance bridges using generative models for robot learning and control
- Lorenzo Sabatini – Unleash the power of many: distributed control of multi-robot systems
- Myunghee Kim – Human wearable robot co-adaptation
- Yoko Yamanishi – Emergent functions of electrically induced bubbles and intracellular cybernetic avatars
- Kensuke Harada – Robotic manipulation aimed at industrial applications
- Yolanda Leite – The quest for social robot autonomy
- Long Xiong – Convergence of robots and AI: changes and challenges
- Mariana Medina-Sanchez – Small robots, big impact: Transforming gynecological care
tutorial
Tutorials will be held on Monday, May 13th and Friday, May 17th.
- Ergodic Control Tutorial
- Connected robotics platform for ROS deployment in real network settings
- How to Manage a Robot Fleet Using Open Source Software
- Riemann Meets Gauss Meet Asimov: Second Tutorial on Geometrical Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization, and Control
- Cloud and Fog Robotics: Hands-on Tutorial using ROS2 and FogROS2
- Choreographed Swarms: From Scripting to Emergent Expressive Behaviors and Connecting Humans and Robots
workshop
Workshops will also be held on Monday 13 May and Friday 17 May. This year there are 73 to choose from.
- Discussion on the future of robotics research
- Field Robot Workshop
- Continuum and soft robotics for medical applications with rising stars on stage.
- Agile Robotics: From Perception to Dynamic Movement
- 6th Human Organ Movement Prediction Workshop
- 2nd HERMES Workshop: Multi-Robot Detection and Recognition in Extreme Environments
- Towards collaborative partners: Design, shared control, and robot learning for physical human-robot interaction.
- Avatar Symbiosis Society through Social Field Experiments
- Future of Construction Workshop 3: Lifelong learning robots in changing construction sites
- What does responsible robotics mean?: Expanding the horizons of roboticists from academic, governmental, and philosophical perspectives.
- Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation
- Exploring role assignment in human-robot co-operation.
- C4SR+: A Continuity, Compliance, Collaborative Cognitive Surgical Robotic System in the Era of Embodied AI
- Dynamic duo: Adapting human-robot colleagues in manufacturing.
- Autonomy in robotic surgery: state of the art, technical and regulatory challenges for clinical application.
- 2nd robot-assisted medical imaging ICRA-RAMI
- Back to the Future: Robotic Learning Becomes Probabilistic
- Bio-inspired soft and other novel design paradigms for aerial robotics
- Impulsive movements of soft robots and microrobotic systems
- Agile Movement II: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robotic Devices
- Dual manual operation: kitchen problems
- Robotics, psychology, and neuroscience of body augmentation.
- Sustainable soft robots: cooperation with the environment
- Robotics and Sustainability: A Two-Way Relationship
- 2nd Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence (MOMA), Integrating Cognition, Learning, and Control for Full Autonomy.
- (Re)Designing the Robotic Tree of Life: An Alternate Timeline Game
- Advancing sustainable food systems through agricultural robotics innovations
- Co-design in robotics: theory, practice and challenges.
- Robot trust for a symbiotic society
- Soft continuum manipulators: bottlenecks and applications.
- Advanced human-robot interface based on physiological signals and sensory stimulation
- Ancillary Systems: From Laboratory to Patient Care
- MAD-Games: Multi-Agent Dynamic Games Workshop
- Robotics Ethics Workshop – Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics and Automation (WOROBET)
- Application and future direction of emotional technology
- ProxyTouch: A full-body proxy haptic architecture for industrial and service applications.
- Biomimetic robotics and robotics for biology
- A future roadmap for learning sensorimotor skills for robot manipulation.
- Robotics and automation in nuclear environments
- 3D visual representation for robot manipulation
- Advances in Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control for Bridged Systems – Second Edition
- Robots for understanding the natural ecosystem
- Culinary robotics: perception and motion planning
- Robot Software Architecture (RSA24)
- Multi-Object Understanding: Progress and Prospects
- First Workshop on Visual-Language Models for Navigation and Manipulation
- Radar in Robotics: Resilience from Signal to Navigation
- Anthropomorphism and Zoom End Effectors: Assets or Useless Prejudices?
- Workshop on Resilient Off-Road Autonomy
- Breaking stereotypes about herds
- Translational Research in Medical Robotics: From Laboratory Bench to Clinical Use – How?
- 4th Workshop on Deformable Object Representation and Manipulation
- Loco Manipulation: Algorithms, Challenges, and Applications
- Cognition across species: From nature to robotic applications.
- Unconventional Robots: Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems
- Accelerating discoveries in natural science laboratories through AI and robotics
- Human-Robot Partnerships for Healthcare and Wellness: What Forms of Partnerships for What Types of Care?
- Humanoid full-body control: From understanding human motion to moving humanoids
- RoboNerF: The Neural Field of Robotics
- ViTac 2024: Robot implementation through visual-tactile recognition
- Supervised Autonomy: How to Shape Human-Robot Interactions from Body to Brain
- Robots and roboticists in the era of climate change
- Human-centered multi-party remote operations: awareness, communication and coordination
- Innovations and applications of human modeling in physical human-robot interaction
- How to ensure correct robot behavior? Software challenges in formal methods for robotics.
- Advancing wearable devices and applications through new design, sensing, actuation, and AI
- Wearable Intelligence for Medical Robotics (WIHR): From Brain Activity to Body Movement
- New technologies in smart exoskeleton systems
- Expand the boundaries of Sim2Real: robotics, biomechanics, plasma physics, chip design and more.
- Nursing robotics: A new field created by the convergence of robotics and nursing science
- Speed Dating for Long-Term Relationships: Art-Robot Residency in a Common Language
- Human Alignment Reinforcement Learning Workshop for Autonomous Agents and Robots
- Second Workshop on Neural Design of Human-Robot Interaction: Creating Compelling HRI Technologies Your Brain Can’t Reject
An overview of the program can be found here, and a detailed program can be found here.
