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Congratulations to the #ICRA2025 best paper award winners

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The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) best paper winners and finalists in the various different categories have been announced. The recipients were revealed during an award ceremony at the conference, which took place from 19-23 May in Atlanta, USA.

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning

Winner

  • *Robo-DM: Data Management for Large Robot Datasets, Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Yanxiang Zhang, Yunliang Lawrence Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ted Xiao, Pannag Sanketi, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

Finalists

  • Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis, David D’Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney J. Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza, Mahjourian, Sherry Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Anish Shankar, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi
  • *No Plan but Everything under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Field and Service Robotics

Winner

  • *PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-Rich Manipulation Using Tactile-Diffusion Policies, Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, Edward Adelson

Finalists

  • A New Stereo Fisheye Event Camera for Fast Drone Detection and Tracking, Daniel Rodrigues Da Costa, Maxime Robic, Pascal Vasseur, Fabio Morbidi
  • *Learning-Based Adaptive Navigation for Scalar Field Mapping and Feature Tracking, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction

Winner

  • *Human-Agent Joint Learning for Efficient Robot Manipulation Skill Acquisition, Shengchent Luo, Quanuan Peng, Jun Lv, Kaiwen Hong, Katherin Driggs-Campbell, Cewu Lu, Yong-Lu Li

Finalists

  • *To Ask or Not to Ask: Human-In-The-Loop Contextual Bandits with Applications in Robot-Assisted Feeding, Rohan Banerjee, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Sidharth Vasudev, Amal Nanavati, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
  • *Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design

Winner

  • Individual and Collective Behaviors in Soft Robot Worms Inspired by Living Worm Blobs, Carina Kaeser, Junghan Kwon, Elio Challita, Harry Tuazon, Robert Wood, Saad Bhamla, Justin Werfel

Finalists

  • *Informed Repurposing of Quadruped Legs for New Tasks, Fuchen Chen, Daniel Aukes
  • *Intelligent Self-Healing Artificial Muscle: Mechanisms for Damage Detection and Autonomous, Ethan Krings, Patrick Mcmanigal, Eric Markvicka

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Planning and Control

Winner

  • *No Plan but Everything under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

Finalists

  • *SELP: Generating Safe and Efficient Task Plans for Robot Agents with Large Language Models, Yi Wu, Zikang Xiong, Yiran Hu, Shreyash Sridhar Iyengar, Nan Jiang, Aniket Bera, Lin Tan, Suresh Jagannathan
  • *Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians Onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics, Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, Timothy Barfoot

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Perception

Winner

  • *MAC-VO: Metrics-Aware Covariance for Learning-Based Stereo Visual Odometry, Yuheng Qju, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, Sebastian Scherer

Finalists

  • *Ground-Optimized 4D Radar-Inertial Odometry Via Continuous Velocity Integration Using Gaussian Process, Wooseong Yang, Hyesu Jang, Ayoung Kim
  • *UAD: Unsupervised Affordance Distillation for Generalization in Robotic Manipulation, Yihe Tang, Wenlong Huang, Yingke Wang, Chengshu Li, Roy Yuan, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation and Locomotion

Winner

  • *D(R, O) Grasp: A Unified Representation of Robot and Object Interaction for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping, Zhenyu Wei, Zhixuan Xu, Jingxiang Guo, Yiwen Hou, Chongkai Gao, Zhehao Cai, Jiayu Luo, Lin Shao

Finalists

  • *Full-Order Sampling-Based MPC for Torque-Level Locomotion Control Via Diffusion-Style Annealing, Haoru Xue, Chaoyi Pan, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi
  • *TrofyBot: A Transformable Rolling and Flying Robot with High Energy Efficiency, Mingwei Lai, Yugian Ye, Hanyu Wu, Chice Xuan, Ruibin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation

Winner

  • *Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference, Tiangi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, Wei Zhan

Finalists

  • *In-Plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope, Jieyun Zou, Siyuan An, Mingyue Wang, Jiaqi Li, Yalin Shi, You-Fu Li, Song Liu
  • *A Complete and Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for a Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem with Obstacles in 3D, Anoop Bhat, Geordan Gutow, Bhaskhar Vundurthy, Zhonggiang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Howie Choset

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics

Winner

  • *In-Vivo Tendon-Driven Rodent Ankle Exoskeleton System for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation, Juwan Han, Seunghyeon Park, Keehon Kim

Finalists

  • *Image-Based Compliance Control for Robotic Steering of a Ferromagnetic Guidewire, An Hu, Chen Sun, Adam Dmytriw, Nan Xiao, Yu Sun
  • *AutoPeel: Adhesion-Aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care, Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip

IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems

Winner

  • *Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li

Finalists

  • Distributed Multi-Robot Source Seeking in Unknown Environments with Unknown Number of Sources, Lingpeng Chen, Siva Kailas, Srujan Deolasee, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara, Woojun Kim
  • *Multi-Nonholonomic Robot Object Transportation with Obstacle Crossing Using a Deformable Sheet, Weijian Zhang, Charlie Street, Masoumeh Mansouri

IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award

Winners

  • *Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians Onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics, Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, Timothy Barfoot
  • *MAC-VO: Metrics-Aware Covariance for Learning-Based Stereo Visual Odometry, Yuheng Qju, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, Sebastian Scherer

In addition to the papers listed above, these paper were also finalists for the IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award.

Finalists

  • *MiniVLN: Efficient Vision-And-Language Navigation by Progressive Knowledge Distillation, Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
  • *RoboCrowd: Scaling Robot Data Collection through Crowdsourcing, Suvir Mirchandani, David D. Yuan, Kaylee Burns, Md Sazzad Islam, Zihao Zhao, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
  • How Sound-Based Robot Communication Impacts Perceptions of Robotic Failure, Jai’La Lee Crider, Rhian Preston, Naomi T. Fitter
  • *Obstacle-Avoidant Leader Following with a Quadruped Robot, Carmen Scheidemann, Lennart Werner, Victor Reijgwart, Andrei Cramariuc, Joris Chomarat, Jia-Ruei Chiu, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter
  • *Dynamic Tube MPC: Learning Error Dynamics with Massively Parallel Simulation for Robust Safety in Practice, William Compton, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Cole Johnson, Aaron Ames
  • *Bat-VUFN: Bat-Inspired Visual-And-Ultrasound Fusion Network for Robust Perception in Adverse Conditions, Gyeongrok Lim, Jeong-ui Hong, Min Hyeon Bae
  • *TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller
  • *TSCLIP: Robust CLIP Fine-Tuning for Worldwide Cross-Regional Traffic Sign Recognition, Guoyang Zhao, Fulong Ma, Weiging Qi, Chenguang Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu, Jun Ma
  • *Geometric Design and Gait Co-Optimization for Soft Continuum Robots Swimming at Low and High Reynolds Numbers, Yanhao Yang, Ross Hatton
  • *ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
  • *Occlusion-aware 6D Pose Estimation with Depth-guided Graph Encoding and Cross-semantic Fusion for Robotic Grasping, Jingyang Liu, Zhenyu Lu, Lu Chen, Jing Yang, Chenguang Yang
  • *Stable Tracking of Eye Gaze Direction During Ophthalmic Surgery, Tinghe Hong, Shenlin Cai, Boyang Li, Kai Huang
  • *Configuration-Adaptive Visual Relative Localization for Spherical Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Yuming Liu, Qiu Zheng, Yuxiao Tu, Yuan Gao, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam
  • *Realm: Real-Time Line-Of-Sight Maintenance in Multi-Robot Navigation with Unknown Obstacles, Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Li, Hongliang Guo, Wei-Yun Yau, Lihua Xie

IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award

Winners

  • *Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li
  • *ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
  • *Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand
  • *TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller

Note: papers with an * were eligible for the IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award.

ChatGPT Competitor Abandons Chabot Updates

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The newest update to Claude reveals that its maker is no longer interested in chasing ChatGPT with continual updates in the AI chatbot market.

Instead, the ChatGPT competitor – now in version 4 — has been reinvented to focus more on computer coding, deep research and other complex tasks, according to writer Hayden Field.

Observes Field: “Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 is the ‘best coding model in the world’ and could autonomously work for nearly a full corporate workday — seven hours.”

The move will most likely come as a great disappointment to a number of writers who currently prefer working with Claude in chatbot mode.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*New Claude and Sonnet ‘Great for Research Tasks:’ The latest updates to Anthropic’s AI engines are clocking great advances when it comes to deep research, according to the editors of “The Neuron,” an AI newsletter.

Observe the editors: “These models can also now ‘think’ while using tools like Web search, work on tasks for hours without losing focus – and even keep notes about what they’re doing.”

*The AI Research Gains for Writers Keep Coming: Google just announced a new, experimental research mode for its Google Gemini 2.5 Pro chatbot that goes beyond the AI’s current research capabilities.

Dubbed ‘Deep Think,’ the new mode is designed to enable Gemini to consider multiple hypotheses before responding to a question or research task.

*Oops: Chicago Sun-Times Publishes AI-Generated Gibberish: In yet another egg-on-my-face AI moment, a Chicago newspaper has published an AI guide to summer fun that features made-up books and experts.

According to writer Mia Sato, the AI-generated, hallucinatory guide was created by Hearst Media and then published by the Chicago Sun-Times without so much as a quick glance to verify accuracy.

‘Facts-take-a-holiday’ moments in the guide include the non-existent book, “Nightshade Market,” the nonexistent food expert, Dr. Catherine Frost and the non-existent professor of leisure studies, Dr. Jennifer Campos.

*Google Promising Enhanced Auto-Replies for Gmail in Q3: Google’s ‘Smart Replies’ – an AI feature for Gmail that auto-generates email replies for users – will get a power-boost by this fall, according to writer Ayushmann Chawla.

Observes Chawla: “The update promises more personalized, context-rich suggestions by pulling data not just from your Gmail thread, but also from your Google Drive, calendar and other linked Workspace tools.”

Even better: Google is also promising that the writing tone of those Gmail auto-replies will be modulated based on your relationship with the recipient, according to Chawla.

*Google Search Releases New ‘AI Mode:’ Google is promising to roll out a new way to search the Web with an ‘AI Mode’ that combines the power of the Google search engine with the AI powers of the Google chatbot, Gemini.

Observes Elizabeth Reid, VP, head of search, Google: “Under the hood, AI Mode uses our query fan-out technique, breaking down your question into subtopics and issuing a multitude of queries simultaneously on your behalf.

“This enables Search to dive deeper into the web than a traditional search on Google, helping you discover even more of what the web has to offer and find incredible, hyper-relevant content that matches your question.”

U.S. Google Chrome users should already be able to find the ‘AI Mode’ button just beneath the search box on Google.

*New AI Voice Researcher Interviews Thousands Simultaneously: In one of those collective ‘gulp!’ moments among journalists worldwide, new AI has emerged that’s designed to:

–interview thousands by AI voice simultaneously

–auto-analyze all responses gleaned from those interviews in real-time to extract trends and actionable insights

–archive everything it finds, hears and opines about for easy reference

While the product, dubbed ‘Hey Marvin,’ is designed to solicit customer feedback, it can also be used to conduct multiple interviews for news stories.

Observes Prayag Narula, CEO, Hey Marvin: “What makes it so powerful is that it enables free-flowing, qualitative, engaging conversations — but on demand and at scale.

”We’re talking hundreds, even thousands of people — something that was previously only seen at large scale using a small army of volunteers in moments like presidential elections.”

*ChatGPT Competitor MS Copilot Gets Image Generation Upgrade: Microsoft Copilot – which runs on AI engines like ChatGPT and similar – has added advanced ChatGPT-4o AI imaging to its feature set.

Observes writer Kevin Okemwa: “OpenAI’s GPT-4o model brings a plethora of new image generation capabilities to Microsoft Copilot.

Adds Okemwa: Those include “the capability to edit your creations, transform an existing image’s style, generate photorealistic images, render accurate and readable text, and follow complex directions.”

ChatGPT’s maker released the advanced image maker back in March.

*Microsoft Promises Access to 11,000+ More Open Source ChatGPT Competitors: Writers and others looking to try out alternate – and often cheaper – ChatGPT competitors should be cheered by Microsoft’s decision to feature many of those in its Azure AI Foundry.

The tech titan just cut a deal with Hugging Face – a depository of nearly two million open source AI engines — to feature 11,000+ of those AI engines on Microsoft Azure, according to writer Ankush Das.

Says Asha Sharma, a VP at Microsoft: “We’re giving developers the freedom to pick the best model for the job — and helping organizations innovate safely and at scale.”

*AI Big Picture: Microsoft Releases 50+ AI Tools to Help Build the ‘Agentic Web:’ Writers and others looking to build AI agents to perform deep research and similar tasks on the Web will want to take a look at new tools Microsoft has designed for those tasks.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “Microsoft launched a comprehensive strategy to position itself at the center of what it calls the ‘open agentic Web’ at its annual Build conference this morning, introducing dozens of AI tools and platforms designed to help developers create autonomous systems that can make decisions and complete tasks with limited human intervention.”

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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#ICRA2025 social media round-up

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The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) took place from 19–23 May, in Atlanta, USA. The event featured plenary and keynote sessions, tutorial and workshops, forums, and a community day. Find out what the participants got up during the conference.

#ICRA #ICRA2025 #RoboticsInAfrica

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— Black in Robotics (@blackinrobotics.bsky.social) 18 May 2025 at 23:22

At #ICRA2025? Check out my student Yi Wu’s talk (TuCT1.4) at 3:30PM Tuesday in Room 302 at the Award Finalists 3 Session about how SELP Generates Safe and Efficient Plans for #Robot #Agents with #LLMs! #ConstrainedDecoding #LLMPlanner
@purduecs.bsky.social
@cerias.bsky.social

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— Lin Tan (@lin-tan.bsky.social) 19 May 2025 at 13:25

Malte Mosbach will present today 16:45 at #ICRA2025 in room 404 our paper:
"Prompt-responsive Object Retrieval with Memory-augmented Student-Teacher Learning"
www.ais.uni-bonn.de/videos/ICRA_…

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— Sven Behnke (@sven-behnke.bsky.social) 20 May 2025 at 15:57

I will present our work on air-ground collaboration with SPOMP in 407A in a few minutes! We deployed 1 UAV and 3 UGVs in a fully autonomous mapping mission in large-scale environments. Come check it out! #ICRA2025 @grasplab.bsky.social

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— Fernando Cladera (@fcladera.bsky.social) 21 May 2025 at 20:13

Cool things happening at #ICRA2025
RoboRacers gearing up for their qualifiers

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— Ameya Salvi (@ameyasalvi.bsky.social) 21 May 2025 at 13:56

Robot Talk Episode 122 – Bio-inspired flying robots, with Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez

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Claire chatted to Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez from Delft University of Technology about drones that can move on land and in the air.

Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez is a licensed engineer with a multidisciplinary background in bionics, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, and international research experience. Her life’s work is rooted in designing inclusive, socially accessible systems that work in synergy with nature and create meaningful impact in communities. As part of this mission, she has been developing nature-inspired drones that can move on both land and in the air — blending her appreciation for nature, design, and the mechanics of how things work.

Could AI understand emotions better than we do?

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Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- including ChatGPT -- to the test using emotional intelligence (EI) assessments typically designed for humans. The outcome: these AIs outperformed average human performance and were even able to generate new tests in record time. These findings open up new possibilities for AI in education, coaching, and conflict management.

Universities face getting stuck with thousands of obsolete robots. Here’s how to avoid a research calamity

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For more than a decade, the French robotics company Aldebaran has built some of the most popular robots used in academic research. Go to most university robotics departments and you'll find either Pepper, the iconic three-wheeled humanoid robot, or its smaller two-legged sibling, Nao.

Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

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SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the color-correcting tool with a computational model that converts images of a scene into a three-dimensional underwater 'world' that can be explored virtually.

AUVSI Launches “Trusted UGV” Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Certification at XPONENTIAL 2025

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As UGVs are increasingly deployed across a wide range of use cases—from defense and public safety missions to critical infrastructure inspection —their reliance on software, sensors, and connectivity makes them increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats and supply chain risks.

New method for energy-aware deployment planning of delivery drones

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In the future, autonomous delivery drones could independently assess whether their remaining battery charge is sufficient for upcoming deliveries. A team of researchers from Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) and industry partner Ingeniarius Ltd, has developed a new method for energy-aware deployment planning.
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