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
Tutorials
The tutorials take place on 14 and 15 October. There are 10 to choose from this year.
- Multi-Robot Path Planning: Heuristic Search Meets Reinforcement Learning
- ML in Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robots: Security and Privacy Issues for ML
- Edge AI for Aerial Robots: Enhancing Drone Operations with AI
- From Hover to Horizon: Mastering Drone Control in MATLAB
- KOMPASS: An event-driven advanced navigation stack for autonomous mobile robots
- Low-code design and simulation of robotics capabilities
- State-of-the-art Simulation in Autonomous Robotic Systems
- Foundations of interaction control for contact robots (part I): Interaction control in humans and with robots
- Foundations of interaction control for contact robots (part II): Energy-based methods and interactive learning
- Humanoid Hybrid sprint
You can view the programme overview here.
