What’s arising at #IROS2024?

The 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) will be held from 14-18 October in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, and forums. We (AIhub) are also holding a science communication session, run in collaboration with IEEE Spectrum.

Plenary talks

There are four plenary talks on the programme this year:

Oussama Khatib – Mission in Dubai, collaboration with UAE
Najwa Aaraj – Building Trust in Autonomous Systems: Security Strategies for the Next Generation of Robotics
Yoshihiko Nakamura – Embodiment of AI and Biomechanics/Neuroscience
Magnus Egerstedt – Mutualistic Interactions in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems: From Environmental Monitoring to the Robotarium

Keynote talks

The keynotes this year fall under the umbrella topics of: flying machines, biorobotics, AI and robotics, and robotics competitions.

Flying machines

Davide Scaramuzza – Drone Racing
Guido De Croon – DelFly Explorer
Giuseppe Loianno – Agile Robotics and Perception Lab
Mirko Kovac – Drones for Environmental Health

Biorobotics

Auke Ijspeert – Bio Robotics, Computational neuroscience
Barbara Mazzolai – Bioinspired Soft Robotics
Kaspar Althoefer – Graphene and 2D materials, sensor applications

AI and robotics

Barbara Caputo – Applied Artificial Intelligence
Merouane Debbah – TelecomGPT
Concepción Alicia Monje – (soft) robot control
Jianwei Zhang – Crossmodal Learning

Robotics competitions

Pedro Lima – Europe: European Robotics League, euROBIN Coopetitions
Timothy Chung – Americas: DARPA Challenges
Ubbo Visser – RoboCup Federation
Thomas McCarthy – Grand Challenges as a Mechanism to Hasten Translation from Lab to Market

Forums

The forums are three-hour events that focus on a particular topic. Each forum will have keynote speakers, with some including a poster session and other talks.

Robots for Sustainability and Sustainable Robots
Europe Regulates Artificial Intelligence: the Challenge for Robotics
Government Forum: Funding for Robotics Research
Robotics in Africa Forum
Robotics & AI in the UAE: Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Human-Avatars Symbiosis: Can you imagine a future society where you can remotely control multiple avatars?
Empowering Diverse Voices in Robotics
Sustainable Medical and Surgical Robotics
Moonshot R&D Program Goal 3 Forum. Envisioning a Future of Human-Robot Co-living: Potential for Robotics to Transform Human Lives
Marine Robotics in Ocean Decade Initiative for Sustainable Development
The Future of Work: AI-Enhanced Robotics and Human Interaction Research in M3S
Industrial Opportunities and Socio-Economic Impact of Medical Robotics
Robots for a Better Tomorrow: Wellbeing Through Advanced Technology

Science communication for roboticists

This session is a collaboration between AIhub.org/Robohub.org and IEEE Spectrum. We will cover different ways to communicate about your work to a more general audience, and how to work with media. You can find out more here.

Workshops

The 46 workshops take place on 14 and 15 October.

AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems
Interactive Robots and AI for Healthcare
Brain Over Brawn: Workshop on Label Efficient Learning Paradigms for Autonomy at Scale
XR-ROB 2024 – Horizons of an Extended Robotics Reality – a Converging Future of XR and Robotics
Maritime Heterogeneous Unmanned Robotic Systems
The Evolving Landscape of Haptic Technologies: Research Challenges and Industry needs
Agricultural Robotics for a Sustainable Future
3rd Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence: Generalization Challenges for Real-World Deployment
Collecting, Managing and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robots
The Grand Challenge of Cybernetic Avatars: Dreams and Facts
Nonverbal cues for human-robot cooperative intelligence
Real-World Challenges in Multi-Robot Cooperation
3D/4D Printing and Smart Materials for Sustainable Soft Robotics
Advanced Robotics and Visualization for micrO Surgery
Equivariant Robotics: The Role of Symmetry Across Perception, Estimation, and Control
Environment Dynamics Matters: Embodied Navigation to Movable Objects
R-, r-, reply- Articles, what are they? Case Studies of Reproducibility and Benchmarking in Robotic Research
Standing the Test of Time: Retrospective and Future of World Representations for Lifelong Robotics
The Workshop and Competition on Multi-Robot Perception and Navigation Challenges in Logistics and Inspection Tasks
The Grand Challenge of Cybernetic Avatars: Ethical and Social Sustainability
Unlocking the Potential: Innovations in Drone-Assisted Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance
AI and Robotics for Future Farming
Self-healing and Damage Resilient Soft Robots
Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture: Research Challenges and Industry Needs
2nd Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Robotics: Bridging ML Theory and Clinical Frontiers
ROMADO: 4th workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects: beyond traditional approaches
Trustworthy Human-swarm Interaction
Multisensory Transparency-Augmented Teleoperation in Extreme Environments
Long-Term Perception for Autonomy in Dynamic Human-centric Environments: What Do Robots Need?
Embodied Neuromorphic AI for Robotic Perception and Control
Integrating Physical and Cognitive Perspectives in Assistive Robotics Design
3rd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars
From Learning-based to Foundation models for mapping: challenges and opportunities (LFM)
Robot Safety in Times of AI: Data, Decision, and Multimodal Interaction
Bio-inspired, Biomimetics, and Biohybrid (Cyborg) Systems
Benchmarking Autonomous Service Robotics in Real Life
The 2nd Workshop on Formal methods techniques in robotics systems: Design and control
Workshop on 14th Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles
Workshop on Interaction-aware Autonomous Systems
The SOFT frontier: adaptive technologies in soft robotics
Variable Impedance Learning and Control: Navigating Challenges, Exploring Opportunities, and Shaping the Future
Workshop on Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives on Assisting Robots and Systems (WELUPARS)
Safety of Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles: Formal Methods vs. Machine Learning approaches for reliable navigation (SIAV-FM2L)
Building and Evaluating Ethical Robotic Systems
From Geometry to General Autonomy of Robotic Systems
Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation