Research

Workshops

Robotic Assembly – Recent Advancements and Opportunities for Challenging R&D

Organizers (Keywords: Assembly; Sensor-based Control; Manipulation Planning):
- Joe Falco
- Elena Messina
- Maximo A. Roa 

Experimental Robotic Grasping and Manipulation: Benchmarks, Datasets, and Competitions

Organizers:
- Yu Sun (University of South Florida, USA)
- Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
- Joe Falco (NIST, Japan)
- Berk Calli (Yale University, USA

Hands in the Real World: Connecting End-Effector Design, Sensitivity, and Behavior

Organizers:
- Hannah Stuart (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Manuel Giuseppe Catalano (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
- Francesca Negrello (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)

Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manipulation: Advancements and Challenges

Organizers:
- Valerio Ortenzi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Marco Controzzi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
- Naresh Marturi (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Yasemin Bekiroglu (Vicarious AI, USA)
- Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Andrea Cherubini (LIRMM - Universite de Montpellier, France

1st Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics

Organizers:
- Stefan Escaida Navarro (INRIA, France)
- Stephan Mühlbacher-Karrer (Joanneum Research - Robotics, Austria)
- Hubert Zangl (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria)
- Björn Hein (KIT, Germany), Hosam Alagi (KIT, Germany)

Examining Sensing Modalities for Robust and Dexterous Object Manipulation.

Organizers:
- Kaiyu Hang (Yale University, USA)
- Hao Ding (ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany)
- Miao Li (Wuhan University, China)
- Danica Kragic (KTH, Sweden)
- Aaron Dollar (Yale University, USA)

Task-Informed Grasping for Rigid and Deformable Object Manipulation

Organizers:
- Amir Masoud Ghalamzan Esfahani (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Farshid Alambeigi (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Sahba Aghajani Pedram (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Renaud Detry (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
- Veronica J. Santos (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Rustam Stolkin (University of Birmingham, UK) 

 

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