Planetary Exploration Robotics

More workshops at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2026

• Agricultural Robotics and Automation — Focuses on robotics for agriculture including crop monitoring drones, autonomous harvesting, precision spraying, soil sensing,...
• AI-Driven Soft Robotics — Explores how machine learning and AI are advancing soft robotic systems - covering data-driven control...
• Dexterity with Multi-Fingered Hands — Dedicated to dexterous manipulation research using multi-fingered robotic hands, covering tactile sensing, grasp planning, in-hand...
• Field Robotics — Long-running ICRA workshop on robots operating in unstructured outdoor environments - covering terrestrial, aerial, and...
• Foundation Models for Robot Autonomy — Explores the use of large pre-trained models - LLMs, vision transformers, and world models -...
• Generalization in Autonomous Driving — Examines how autonomous driving systems can generalize across diverse environments, weather conditions, and edge cases...
• Geometry in the Age of Data-Driven Robotics — Examines the role of geometric structure and symmetry in data-driven robot learning - covering equivariant...
• Human-Robot Interaction for Social Robots — Focuses on the social and cognitive aspects of HRI for robots deployed in homes, hospitals,...
• Humanoid Robot Locomotion and Whole-Body Control — Dedicated to bipedal and humanoid locomotion research - covering reinforcement learning for walking and running,...
• Long-Term Robot Deployments in the Wild — Focuses on the practical challenges of operating robots outside the lab over extended periods -...
• Multi-Modal Spatial AI for Robots — Addresses spatial understanding in robotics using multiple sensing modalities - fusing vision, LiDAR, depth, and...
• Neuro-Robotics and Brain-Inspired Control — Bridges neuroscience and robotics by examining how neural circuit models, spiking networks, and cognitive architectures...
• Robots and AI in Manufacturing and Industry — Covers the application of robotics and AI in industrial settings, including flexible manufacturing cells, quality...
• Robotics for Environmental and Climate Technologies — Focuses on applying robotics to climate and environmental challenges - ocean plastic collection, reforestation drones,...
• Space Robotics — Covers robotic systems for on-orbit servicing, in-space assembly, and lunar surface operations - addressing zero-gravity...
• Synthetic Data for Robot Learning — Examines the role of synthetic data generation in training robot learning systems - covering photorealistic...
• Uncertainty in Open-World Robotics — Addresses how robots should represent and act under uncertainty in open-ended real-world settings - covering...
• VLA Pipelines for Real Robots — Explores end-to-end vision-language-action models for robot control - covering training pipelines, data curation, real-world evaluation,...
• Robot Ethics in Practice — Brings together roboticists, ethicists, and policymakers to examine ethical considerations in deploying robots in healthcare,...