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What’s coming up at #ICRA2025?
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place from 19-23 May, in Atlanta, USA. The event will feature plenary talks, technical sessions, posters, workshops and tutorials, forums, and a science communication short course.
Plenary speakers
There are three plenary sessions this year. The speakers are as follows:
- Allison Okamura (Stanford University) – Rewired: The Interplay of Robots and Society
- Tessa Lau (Dusty Robotics) – So you want to build a robot company?
- Raffaello (Raff) D’Andrea (ETH Zurich) – Models are dead, long live models!
Keynote sessions
Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 will see a total of 12 keynote sessions. The featured topics and speakers are:
- Rehabilitation & Physically Assistive Systems
- Brenna Argall
- Robert Gregg
- Keehoon Kim
- Christina Piazza
- Optimization & Control
- Todd Murphey
- Angela Schoellig
- Jana Tumova
- Ram Vasudevan
- Human Robot Interaction
- Sonia Chernova
- Dongheui Lee
- Harold Soh
- Holly Yanco
- Soft Robotics
- Robert Katzschmann
- Hugo Rodrigue
- Cynthia Sung
- Wenzhen Yuan
- Field Robotics
- Margarita Chli
- Tobias Fischer
- Joshua Mangelson
- Inna Sharf
- Bio-inspired Robotics
- Kyujin Cho
- Dario Floreano
- Talia Moore
- Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
- Haptics
- Jeremy Brown
- Matej Hoffman
- Tania Morimoto
- Jee-Hwan Ryu
- Planning
- Hanna Kurniawati
- Jen Jen Chung
- Dan Halperin
- Jing Xiao
- Manipulation
- Tamim Asfour
- Yasuhisa Hasegawa
- Alberto Rodriguez
- Shuran Song
- Locomotion
- Sarah Bergbreiter
- Cosimo Della Santina
- Hae-Won Park
- Ludovic Righetti
- Safety & Formal Methods
- Chuchu Fan
- Meng Guo
- Changliu Liu
- Pian Yu
- Multi-robot Systems
- Sabine Hauert
- Dimitra Panagou
- Alyssa Pierson
- Fumin Zhang
Science communication training
Join Sabine Hauert, Evan Ackerman and Laura Bridgeman for a crash course on science communication. In this concise tutorial, you will learn how to share your work with a broader audience. This session will take place on 22 May, 11:00 – 12:15.
Workshops and tutorials
The programme of workshops and tutorials will take place on Monday 19 May and Friday 23 May. There are 59 events to choose from, and you can see the full list here.
Forums
There will be three forums as part of the programme, one each on Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22.
- Robot Ethics Forum
- Harnessing Learning, Data, Foundation Models and Open Source: How African Scientists are Advancing Robotics Research
- Undergraduate Robotics Education Programs: Structures, Platforms, and Approaches
Community building day
Wednesday 21 May is community building day, with six events planned:
- Queer in Robotics: Building a Community and Generating Inclusive Guidelines
- Harnessing Learning, Data, Foundation Models and Open Source: How African Scientists are Advancing Robotics Research
- RAS-WiE Voices — Women shaping the future of robotics and automation
- Black in Robotics and Blacks in Technology Social
- LatinX in AI & Robotics
- Community Building Day Dinner
Other events
You can find out more about the other sessions and event at the links below:
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