The 2025 IEEE/RSJ Worldwide Convention on Clever Robots and Methods (IROS 2025) shall be held from 19-25 October in Hangzhou, China. The programme contains plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, boards, competitions, and a debate.
Plenary talks
There are three plenary talks on the programme this 12 months, with one per day on Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, and Thursday 23 October.
- Marco Hutter – The New Period of Mobility: Humanoids and Quadrupeds Enter the Actual World
- Hyoun Jin Kim – Autonomous Aerial Manipulation: Towards Bodily Clever Robots in Flight
- Tune-Chun Zhu – TongBrain: Bridging Bodily Robots and AGI Brokers
Keynote talks
The keynotes this 12 months fall beneath eleven umbrella matters:
- Rehabilitation & Bodily Assistive Methods
- Patrick Wensing – From Managed Exams to Open Worlds: Advancing Legged Robots and Decrease-Limb Prostheses
- Hao Su – AI-Powered Wearable and Surgical Robots for Human Augmentation
- Lorenzo Masia – Wearable Robots and AI for Rehabilitation and Human Augmentation
- Shingo Shimoda – Science of Consciousness: Towards a New Paradigm for Mind-Generated Problems
- Bio-inspired Robotics
- Kevin Chen – Agile and strong micro-aerial-robots pushed by gentle synthetic muscle groups
- Josie Hughes – Bioinspired Robots: Constructing Embodied Intelligence
- Jee-Hwan Ryu – Smooth Rising Robots: From Catastrophe Response to Colonoscopy
- Lei Ren – Layagrity robotics: inspiration from the human musculoskeletal system
- Smooth Robotics
- Bram Vanderborght – Self therapeutic supplies for sustainable gentle robots”
- Cecilia Laschi – From AI Scaling to Embodied Management: Towards Power-Frugal Smooth Robotics
- Kyu-Jin Cho – Smooth Wearable Robots: Navigating the Challenges of Constructing Expertise for the Human Physique
- Li Wen – Multimodal Smooth Robots: Elevating Interplay in Advanced and Numerous Environments
- Al and Robotic Studying
- Fei Miao – From Uncertainty to Motion: Strong and Protected Multi-Agent Reinforcement Studying for Embodied AI
- Xifeng Yan – Adaptive Inference in Transformers
- Lengthy Cheng – Studying from Demonstrations by the Dynamical System Method
- Karinne Ramírez-Amaro – Clear Robotic Choice-Making with Interpretable & Explainable Strategies
- Notion and Sensors
- Davide Scaramuzza – Low-latency Robotics with Occasion Cameras
- Kris Dorsey – Sensor design for gentle robotic proprioception
- Perla Maiolino – Shaping Intelligence: Smooth Our bodies, Sensors, and Expertise
- Roberto Calandra – Digitizing Contact and its Significance in Robotics
- Human Robotic Interplay
- Javier Alonso-Mora – Multi-Agent Autonomy: from Interplay-Conscious Navigation to Coordinated Cellular Manipulation
- Jing Xiao – Robotic Manipulation in Unknown and Unsure Environments
- Dongheui Lee – From Passive Learner to Professional-Energetic and Inter-Energetic Learner with Reasoning Capabilities
- Ya-Jun Pan – Clever Adaptive Robotic Interacting with Unknown Atmosphere and Human
- Embodied Intelligence
- Fumiya Iida – Informatizing Smooth Robots for Tremendous Embodied Intelligence
- Nidhi Seethapathi – Predictive Ideas of Locomotion
- Cewu Lu – Digital Gene: An Analytical Common Embodied Manipulation Ideology
- Lengthy Cheng – Studying from Demonstrations by the Dynamical System Method
- Medical Robots
- Kenji Suzuki – Small-data Deep Studying for AI Physician and Good Medical Imaging
- Li Zhang – Magnetic Microrobots for Translational Biomedicine: From Particular person and Modular Designs to Microswarms
- Kanako Harada – Co-evolution of Human and AI-Robots to Increase Science Frontiers
- Loredana Zollo – In the direction of Synergistic Human–Machine Interplay in Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics: Multimodal Interfaces, Sensory Suggestions, and Future Views
- Discipline Robotics
- Matteo Matteucci – Robotics Meets Agriculture: SLAM and Notion for Crop Monitoring and Precision Farming
- Brendan Englot – Situational Consciousness and Choice-Making Underneath Uncertainty for Marine Robots
- Abhinav Valada – Open World Embodied Intelligence: Studying from Notion to Motion within the Wild
- Timothy H. Chung – Catalyzing the Way forward for Human, Robotic, and AI Agent Groups within the Bodily World
- Humanoid Robotic Methods
- Kei Okada – Reworking Humanoid Robotic Intelligence: From Reconfigurable {Hardware} to Human-Centric Purposes
- Xingxing Wang – A New Period of World Collaboration in Clever Robotics
- Wei Zhang – In the direction of Bodily Intelligence in Humanoid Robotics
- Dennis Hong – Staging the Machine: Not Constructed for Work, Constructed for Surprise
- Mechanisms and Controls
- Kenjiro Tadakuma – Topological Robotic Mechanisms
- Angela P. Schoellig – AI-Powered Robotics: From Semantic Understanding to Protected Autonomy
- Lu Liu – Security-Conscious Multi-Agent Self-Deployment: Integrating Cybersecurity and Constrained Coordination
- Fuchun Solar – Information-Guided Tactile VLA: Bridging the Sim-to-Actual Hole with Physics and Geometry Consciousness
Debate
On Wednesday, a debate shall be held on the next subject: “Humanoids Will Quickly Substitute Most Human Staff: True or False?” The individuals shall be: XingXing Wang (Unitree Robotics), Jun-Oh Ho (Samsung and Rainbow Robotics), Hong Qiao (Chinese language Academy of Sciences), Andra Keay, (Silicon Valley Robotics), Yu Solar (EiC, IEEE Trans on Automation Science and Engineering), Tamim Asfour (Professor of Humanoid Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Expertise), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley, Moderator).
Tutorials
There are three tutorials deliberate, happening on Monday 20 and Friday 24 October.
- Enhancing Digital Accessibility in Increased Schooling
- Design and Growth of Rehabilitation Robotic Gadgets: Healthcare Challenges
- Retico: A Framework for Robotic-ready Spoken Dialogue with Robots
Workshops
You’ll find a listing of the workshops right here. These will happen on Monday 20 and Friday 24 October.There are 83 to select from this 12 months.
