2025 IEEE RAS 19-25 May, Atlanta, USA AWARDS CEREMONY
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society President Aude Billard, EPFL, Switzerland
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Awards Chair Seth Hutchinson, Northeastern University, USA
ICRA 2025 General and Program Chairs Nancy Amato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Seth Hutchinson, Northeastern University, USA ICRA 2025 Conference Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Christian Ott, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
ICRA 2025 Awards Chair Allison Okamura, Stanford University, USA IEEE RAS Staff Terence C. Martinez, Executive Director Amy Reeder, Operations Manager Taraja Arnold, Marketing Manager Kyung Mi Bae, Program Specialist Nicholas Milton, Program Specialist Grace Zhao, Program Specialist Patrick Hanna, Society Administrator
Recognition of Professional Achievement For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession. That tradition of public recognition continues today. In the 21st century, IEEE Awards are valued as among the highest honors a technical professional can receive. They are an esteemed symbol of the admiration of one’s peers—the most prized form of prestige—bestowed upon individuals whose accomplishments have enhanced the global economy while improving the quality of daily life. Legacy of Innovation IEEE Awards recognize and encourage important contributions to technology, science and the profession. They honor achievements in education, industry, research and service, and they encompass the breadth of the many IEEE technical interest areas from computer science, electrical engineering, information technologies and microelectronics, to optoelectronics, radar technologies, signal processing and beyond. Each award has its own unique mission and criteria, and offers the opportunity to honor distinguished colleagues, inspiring teachers and corporate leaders. Through the Awards program, the IEEE, and the societies that preceded it, also have played an important role in encouraging innovation. Individuals honored with IEEE Awards join a remarkable group of such well-known pioneers as Bell, Edison, Marconi, Noyce and Grove—among many others. These individuals, in turn, provide inspiration and personal role models for aspiring professionals. EEE Awards Selection Process Nominations for IEEE awards and recognitions are initiated by the members and others, then reviewed by a panel of peers—professionals who are especially knowledgeable in a particular field. Their recommendations are, in turn, submitted to the IEEE Awards Board for further review prior to final approval by the IEEE Board of Directors. The awards fall into seven categories: • Medals • Honorary Memberships • Service Awards
• Corporate Recognitions • Technical Field Awards • Prize Paper Awards
The IEEE Robotics & Automation Award
Past Recipients 2024 Paolo Dario 2023 Daniela Rus 2022 Wolfram Burgard 2021 Jean-Claude Latombe and Tomas Lozano-Perez 2020 Vijay Kumar 2019 Zexiang Li and Frank Wang 2018 Matthew T. Mason 2017 Oussama Khatib 2016 Raffaello D’Andrea 2015 Rodney A. Brooks
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award was established in 2002 by the IEEE Board of Directors, and is presented for contributions in the field of robotics and automation. It includes but is not limited to: manufacturing automation; robotics and automation in unstructured environments; sensor design; integration and fusion; robot design; modeling; planning and control; methodologies for robotics and automation, and the quality of the nomination. Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, the award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. For additional information on IEEE Technical Field Awards and Medals, to view complete lists of past recipients, or to nominate a colleague or associate for IEEE Technical Field Awards and Medals, please visit: www.ieee.org/awards.
2014 Shigeo Hirose 2013 Ruzena Bajcsy 2012 Bernard Roth 2011 Hirochika Inoue 2010 Toshio Fukuda 2009 Antal Bejczy
2008 Paul G. Backes, Eric T. Baumgartner and Larry H. Matthies 2007 Gerd Hirzinger 2006 George A. Bekey 2005 Seiuemon Inaba 2004 Joseph F. Engelberger
2025 IEEE Robotics & Automation Award
Marc Raibert Executive Director, The RAI Institute Cambridge, MA, USA For pioneering and leading the field of dynamic legged locomotion Marc Raibert revolutionized the field of robotics with his groundbreaking work on dynamic stability in legged robots. His innovative one-legged design laid the foundation for more complex two and four-legged systems. Raibert’s visionary approach challenged conventional wisdom, arguing for the practicality of dynamically stable legged robots in a field dominated by wheeled machines. As founder of Boston Dynamics, he led the development of advanced robotic systems, culminating in commercially successful products like Spot and Stretch. His influence extends beyond hardware; he established The AI Institute, driving the convergence of artificial intelligence and robotics. His contributions have not only advanced the technical capabilities of robots but also paved the way for their practical applications in various industries.
IEEE Fellows Elevated as of January 2025
IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of Institute membership, conferred only by election by the Board of Directors. Candidates must be senior members with at least five years of IEEE membership. The nominator is responsible for preparation of the formal nomination form; identification of five to eight IEEE Fellows, capable of assessing the candidate’s contributions, who agree to serve as references; identification of an IEEE Society or Council whose evaluating committee will assess the candidate’s technical qualifications and contributions. All material is sent to the Fellow Committee, which must review all nominations and assessments, and prepare a ranked list. The total number of Fellow recommendations each year cannot exceed 0.1% of IEEE membership, exclusive of Students and Affiliates.
Congratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society 2025 Fellow Class
2025 IEEE Fellow Class John Aloimonos – for contributions to active perception and the perception of action
Ron Alterovitz — for contributions to medical steerable needles and motion planning for medical robots
Hongsoo Choi — for contributions to the development and implementation of medical tethered and untethered microrobots
Andreas Krause — for contributions to active sensing, Bayesian optimization, and learning-based control
Jee-hwan Ryu — for contributions to passivation and stability-assured control in haptics and telerobotics
Davide Scaramuzza — for contributions to micro-drones visual navigation and robust perception with event cameras
Vincent Vanhoucke — for contributions to deep learning applied to perception and robotics
Qingsong Xu — for contributions to the design and control of robotic micro- and nano-positioning and manipulation systems
2025 IEEE Robotics & Automation Pioneer Award
Antonio Bicchi University of Pisa and Italian Institute of Technology in Genova Italy For pioneering fundamental contributions to artificial hands, haptics, and human-robot collaboration, and for their applications to robotics and prosthetics. Antonio Bicchi is a scientist interested in robotics, automatic control and haptics. He holds a chair in Robotics at the University of Pisa and leads the Soft Robotics Laboratory at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova. His research work produced many publications which have been used and cited largely and earned him several awards and recognitions. He helped start the WorldHaptics Symposium series, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He is currently Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
2025 IEEE Robotics & Automation Pioneer Award
Wolfram Burgard University of Technology Nuremberg Germany For pioneering contributions to probabilistic state estimation, perception, and learning in robotics. Wolfram Burgard is a distinguished Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Technology Nuremberg, and the Founding Chair of the Computer Science and AI Department. He studied Computer Science at the University of Bonn, where he also received his PhD. From 1999 to 2021, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg. His expertise in AI and mobile robots has led to ground-breaking contributions in robot perception and learning, particularly in robot localization and simultaneous localization and mapping, which are foundational for applications like robotic logistics and self-driving cars. He has published over 400 papers and articles in robotics and AI, and co-authored two influential books: Principles of Robot Motion Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations and Probabilistic Robotics. He has received numerous accolades, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2009), an ERC Advanced Grant (2010), the IEEE Technical Field Award for Robotics and Automation (2022), and a distinguished Professorship of the Free State of Bavaria (2022).
He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, EurAI, and ELLIS. He has received 16 best paper awards and three most influential paper awards. From 2018 to 2019, he served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and he is currently the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
2025 IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation
Frank Chongwoo Park Seoul National University South Korea For leadership in society restructuring and new publications initiatives, and contributions to geometric methods in robotics. Frank C. Park is professor of mechanical engineering at Seoul National University. He received the B.S. in EECS from MIT in 1985, the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1991, and was on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine from 1991 to 1994. His research interests include robot modeling, motion planning, control and learning, mathematical data science, and related areas of applied mathematics. He is a former editor-in-chief for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, developer of the EDX course Robot Mechanics and Control I-II, and co-author (with Kevin Lynch) of the textbook Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is a fellow of the IEEE, served as president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2022–2023), and is founder and CEO of the industrial AI startup Saige (http://saige.ai).
2025 IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation
Allison Okamura Stanford University United States of America For foundational research in haptics, medical robotics, and robot design, as well as service to the Robotics and Automation Society. Allison Okamura is the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in the mechanical engineering department, with a courtesy appointment in computer science. She is Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, a deputy director of the Wu Tsai Stanford Neurosciences Institute, a Science Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and a founding faculty member and executive committee member of the Stanford Robotics Center. She is an IEEE Fellow, member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee, and was previously editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Her awards include the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Technical Achievement Award, Nagamori Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, and Duca Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Her academic interests include haptics, teleoperation, virtual reality, medical
robotics, soft robotics, rehabilitation, and education. Outside academia, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, running, and playing ice hockey.
2025 IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Paolo Fiorini University of Verona (retired) Italy For his service and contributions to RAS committees, conferences, and educational activities. Paolo received his undergraduate degrees in Italy and his PhD from UCLA. He worked for companies in Italy and in the US before joining NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1985 to research robots for space and planetary exploration. He returned to Italy in 2001 to establish a robotics program at the University of Verona. He retired in 2023 and is now focusing on his medical robotic startup. He was appointed twice to RAS AdCom, chaired the RAS Educational committee, was Associated VP for Conference Activities, RAS secretary, and financial chair of ICRA and IROS conferences. He is also the secretary of ICAR steering committee.
2025 IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Peter Ian Corke Queensland University of Technology Australia For service to the robotics community through education on and dissemination of knowledge. Peter is an Australian robotics practitioner, educator and researcher. He created widely used open-source software for teaching and research in MATLAB and Python; wrote the best selling textbook “Robotics, Vision, and Control”, now in its third edition; created several online courses and the Robot Academy; and has won national and international recognition for teaching, including 2017 Australian University Teacher of the Year. He is a distinguished professor emeritus at Queensland University of Technology where he established one of the largest robotics research and teaching groups in Australia; program co-chair for IROS2028 in Sydney; a fellow of the IEEE, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the Australian Academy of Science; editorial board member for IEEE Trans. Field Robotics; advisory board member for IEEE Trans. Robotics Practice; former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine; founding multi- media editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in electrical engineering and PhD from the University of Melbourne.
2025 IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Todd Murphey Northwestern University United States of America For his exemplary leadership as Vice President of Publications Activities in the launching of two new RAS journals. Todd Murphey is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, both at Northwestern University. He is additionally the Director of Transformative Research in Northwestern University's Office of Research. He received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2002. His laboratory is part of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems, and his research interests include robotics, control, human-machine interaction, and emergent behavior in dynamical systems. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, is a recipient of Northwestern University's Professorship of Teaching Excellence, and was a member of the DARPA/IDA Defense Science Study Group. Prof. Murphey served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2014-2018) and as Vice President for the Publication Activities Board in the Robotics and Automation Society (2022-2023).
2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Wenzhen Yuan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States of America For innovative contributions to high-resolution robotic tactile sensing. Wenzhen Yuan is an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the director of the RoboTouch Lab. She is the leading researcher who brought the high- resolution tactile sensing to robotics, and her work laid the foundations of high-resolution tactile sensing. Dr. Yuan’s career goal is to pioneer new frontiers in robotic tactile sensing, and her exploration has ranged from creating new hardware, sensor modeling, signal processing, and perception models. Dr. Yuan’s contributions have significantly advanced robot capabilities in challenging perception and manipulation tasks, influencing both academia and industry. Her research continues to push the boundaries of robotic sensing. Yuan received her Master of Science and PhD degrees from MIT and her Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University. She also worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Shuran Song Stanford University United States of America For contributions to scalable robot learning and their real-world applications. Shuran Song is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford University, she was a faculty at Columbia University. Shuran received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University, BEng. at HKUST. Her research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and robotics. Song’s research has been recognized through several awards, including the Best Paper Awards at RSS’22 and T-RO’20, Best System Paper Awards at CoRL’21, RSS’19, and finalists at RSS, ICRA, CVPR, and IROS. She is also a recipient of the NSF Career Award, Sloan Foundation fellowship as well as research awards from Microsoft, Toyota Research, Google, Amazon, and JP Morgan. To learn more about Shuran’s work, please visit: https://shurans.github.io/
2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Abhishek Gupta University of Washington United States of America For pioneering contributions to real-world robotic reinforcement learning. Abhishek Gupta is an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where he leads the Washington Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Development (WEIRD) Lab. Previously, Gupta was a post-doctoral scholar at MIT, collaborating with Russ Tedrake and Pulkit Agarwal. He completed his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics at BAIR at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Sergey Levine and Professor Pieter Abbeel. Previously, he completed his bachelor’s degree also at UC Berkeley. Gupta’s main research goal is to develop algorithms which enable robotic systems to learn how to perform complex tasks in a variety of unstructured environments like offices and homes. To that end, he works towards building deep reinforcement learning algorithms that can learn in the real world, with and around humans.
2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Yuke Zhu The University of Texas at Austin United States of America
For groundbreaking contributions to robot learning and embodied artificial intelligence, and broadly used open-source software platforms for robot learning.
Yuke Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of UT-Austin, where he directs the Robot Perception and Learning (RPL) Lab. He also co-leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group at NVIDIA Research, building robotics foundation models. He focuses on developing intelligent algorithms for generalist robots to reason about and interact with the real world. His research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. He received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. His work has won various awards and nominations, including the Best Conference Paper Award in ICRA 2019, 2024, the Outstanding Learning Paper Award at ICRA 2022, and the Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022. He received the NSF CAREER Award, JP Morgan Chase Faculty Fellowship in AI, and multiple faculty awards from Amazon, JP Morgan, Sony Research, etc.
2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Changliu Liu Carnegie Mellon University United States of America For significant advancements in intelligent robot control and learning that enables safe and efficient human-robot collaborations. Changliu Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where she leads the Intelligent Control Lab. Before joining CMU in January 2019, she was a postdoc at Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering and Master's degrees in Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Bachelor's degrees in Engineering and Economics from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on the design and verification of human-centered intelligent systems for manufacturing and transportation, involving various robot embodiments like robot arms, mobile robots, legged robots, and humanoid robots. Dr. Liu co-founded Instinct Robotics, a company specializing in intelligent manufacturing. She is a senior member of IEEE and published the book Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions in 2019. She co-founded the International Neural Network Verification Competition in 2020. Dr. Liu's work has earned her numerous awards, including the NSF Career Award, Amazon Research Award, Ford URP Award, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award, and Young Investigator Award at the International Symposium of Flexible Automation. Her research has been featured in IEEE Spectrum, ATI News, and Robotiq Blog. She served as Associate Editor of Mechatronics (2023-2024) and is currently Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.
2025 IEEE Early Government or Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Daniel Leidner German Aerospace Center (DLR) Germany
For outstanding contributions to the advancement of AI-assisted telerobotics and its transformative impact on space exploration and societal needs.
Prof. Daniel Leidner earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Bremen in 2017, receiving multiple awards, including Best European Ph.D. Thesis in Robotics. Since joining the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2011, he has taken on increasing leadership roles and now serves as Head of the Department of Autonomy and Teleoperation. Since October 2024, he has jointly held this position with a Cooperation Professorship for Cognitive Robotic Manipulation at the University of Bremen. His research focuses on enabling space robots to autonomously detect and recover from hardware failures. Most recently, he has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to continue this research within the RECOVER.ME project. Beyond academia, he shaped Germany’s AI-based robotics strategy as the first dedicated robotics consultant to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation
Apptronik
Apollo is an AI-powered, humanoid robot and the first commercial humanoid designed for friendly interaction, mass manufacturability, performance, and safety.
Rugged Robotics
Rugged Robotics transforms construction with autonomous robots, automating field layout with precision and efficiency, paving the way for future innovation
2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation (cont’d)
Ambi Robotics
AmbiSort A-Series, AI-Powered Robotic Sorting
2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Most Active Technical Committee Award
Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics
2025 RAS Society Student Branch Chapter of the Year Award
This Award recognizes an IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Student Branch Chapter which provides outstanding activities and services to its local RAS members in one or more of the following areas: technical meetings, tours and conferences, seminars and/or tutorials, plus other services and activities.
North South University RAS Student Branch Chapter - Bangladesh
Ecole Nationale D'Ingenieurs De Tunis RAS Student Branch Chapter - Tunisia
Federal University of Campina Grande RAS Student Branch Chapter - Brazil
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award
The award recognizes the most influential paper published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) from approximately 20 years ago, between 1999- 2003. Unlike the other RAS best paper awards that attempt to predict the future potential impact of a paper, this award looks back at the actual impact a paper has had. Anastasios I. Mourikis and Stergios I. Roumeliotis A Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award
Anastasios I. Mourikis Anastasios Mourikis is a Research Scientist at Meta, working on state estimation for virtual- and augmented-reality systems. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the fields of vision-aided inertial navigation and simultaneous localization and mapping, where he has co-authored more than 50 peer- reviewed publications. He is a recipient of the 2013 NSF CAREER award, and a co-recipient of the 2009 IEEE TRO Best Paper award. Currently, his work focuses on the deployment of localization and mapping technologies at scale in real-world applications.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award
Stergios I. Roumeliotis Stergios I. Roumeliotis (IEEE Fellow, 2016) is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Apple Inc. and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota (UMN). He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech and served as a Professor at UMN from 2002 to 2020, where he also held affiliate appointments in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. From 2009 to 2015, he was Associate Director for Research at UMN’s Digital Technology Center, and from 2017 to 2019, he was Chief Scientist for Visual and Inertial Systems at Google. His research focuses on visual-inertial state estimation and environment representation for autonomous vehicles and mobile devices, with a focus on augmented and mixed reality applications. He has received numerous honors, including the NSF PECASE Award, NSF CAREER Award, Guillermo E. Borja Award, and multiple NASA and IEEE recognitions. His co-authored papers have earned several best paper awards and finalist honors from IEEE, RSJ, NASA, and major robotics conferences. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics from 2006 to 2010.
2025 RAS Publication Awards
The RAS publication awards recognize excellence and the best research papers published in the previous calendar year. King-Sun Fu Memorial IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award
Certifiably Correct Range-Aided SLAM
Alan Papalia, Andrew Fishberg, Brendan O'Neill, Jonathan How, David Rosen, and John Leonard
IEEE Transactions on Robotics: Volume 40, September 4, 2024
For an innovative algorithm to efficiently compute certifiably optimal solutions to range-aided simultaneous localization and mapping (RA-SLAM) problems.
King-Sun Fu Memorial IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups For Robot Dynamics Learning and Control Thai Duong, Abdullah Altawaitan, Jason Stanley, and Nikolay Atanasov Volume 40, July 15, 2024 Enhancing the Performance of a Biomimetic Robotic Elbow-and-Forearm System Through Bionics-Inspired Optimization Haosen Yang, Guowu Wei, and Lei Ren Volume 40, April 9, 2024 On-Manifold Strategies for Reactive Dynamical System Modulation with Non-Convex Obstacles Christopher K. Fourie, Nadia Figueroa, and Julie Shah Volume 40, March 18, 2024 Modeling and Design of Lattice-Reinforced Pneumatic Soft Robots Dong Wang, Chengru Jiang, and Guoying Gu Volume 40, November 20, 2023 Task and Motion Planning for Execution in the Real Tianyang Pan, Rahul Shome, and Lydia Kavraki Volume 40, June 24, 2024
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Awards 5 Winners Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots With Learned Residual Physics Junpeng Gao; Mike Y. Michelis; Andrew Spielberg; Robert K. Katzschmann Volume. 9, no. 10, pp. 8523-8530, Oct. 2024 PV-OSIMr: A Lowest Order Complexity Algorithm for Computing the Delassus Matrix Ajay Suresha Sathya; Wilm Decré; Jan Swevers Volume 9, no. 11, pp. 10224-10231, Nov. 2024 Learning-Based Minimally-Sensed Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Flight Control Michael O'Connell; Joshua Cho; Matthew Anderson; Soon-Jo Chung Volume 9, no. 6, pp. 5198-5205, June 2024 Adaptive Neural Computed Torque Control for Robot Joints With Asymmetric Friction Model Ruiqing Luo; Zhengtao Hu; Menghui Liu; Liang Du; Sheng Bao; Jianjun Yuan Volume 10, no. 1, pp. 732-739, Jan. 2025
Inflatable-Structure-Based Working-Channel Securing Mechanism for Soft Growing Robots
Dongoh Seo; Nam Gyun Kim; Jee-Hwan Ryu Volume 9, no. 9, pp. 7755-7762, Sept. 2024
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention
SEDMamba: Enhancing Selective State Space Modelling With Bottleneck Mechanism and Fine-to-Coarse Temporal Fusion for Efficient Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery Jialang Xu; Nazir Sirajudeen; Matthew Boal; Nader Francis;
Danail Stoyanov; Evangelos B. Mazomenos Volume 10, no. 1, pp. 232-239, Jan. 2025
A Novel Safety-Aware Energy Tank Formulation Based on Control Barrier Functions Youssef Michel; Matteo Saveriano; Dongheui Lee Volume 9, no. 6, pp. 5206-5213, June 2024 S3E: A Multi-Robot Multimodal Dataset for Collaborative SLAM Dapeng Feng; Yuhua Qi; Shipeng Zhong; Zhiqiang Chen; Qiming Chen; Hongbo Chen Volume 9, no. 12, pp. 11401-11408, Dec. 2024 On the Benefits of Visual Stabilization for Frame- and Event-Based Perception Juan Pablo Rodríguez-Gómez; Jose Ramiro Martínez-de Dios; Aníbal Ollero; Guillermo Gallego Volume 9, no. 10, pp. 8802-8809, Oct. 2024 Aggregating Multiple Bio-Inspired Image Region Classifiers for Effective and Lightweight Visual Place Recognition Bruno Arcanjo; Bruno Ferrarini; Maria Fasli; Michael Milford;
Klaus D. McDonald-Maier; Shoaib Ehsan Volume 9, no. 4, pp. 3315-3322, April 2024
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Outstanding Associate Editors
Xiang Li Tsinghua University
Alberto Maria Metelli Politecnico di Milano
Paolo Di Lillo University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Daniele Fontanelli University of Trento
Miaomiao Liu Australian National University
Francesco Pierri University of Basilicata
Zongwei Wu University of Wurzburg
Holger Caesar TU Delft
Wei Pan University of Manchester
Xieyuanli Chen National University of Defense Technology
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Outstanding Reviewers
Dominic Jones University of Leeds
Sarah Pontes Madruga Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Thai-Viet Dang Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Guoteng Zhang Shandong University
Jens Behley University of Bonn
Tong Qin Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ukcheol Shin Carnegie Mellon University Weiran Yao Harbin Institute of Technology
Jialei Shi Imperial College London
Matias Mattamala University of Oxford
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments
Pavel Petracek; Vit Kratky; Tomas Baca; Matej Petrlik; Martin Saska
Volume 31, no. 2, pp. 8-25, June 2024
The paper advances the cooperation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and presents real-world demonstrations for the digital documentation of large interiors in historical buildings.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Distinguished Service Awards
Thomas Alessandro Ciarfuglia Outstanding Reviewer
Jiaming Qi Outstanding Reviewer
Maria Pozzi Outstanding Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award
Reducing Uncertainty Using Placement and Regrasp Planning on a Triangular Corner Fixture
Zhengtao Hu, Weiwei Wan, Kei-suke Koyama, and Kensuke Harada
Volume 21, no.1, pp. 652 ‐ 670, January 2024
For a novel regrasp planning method to achieve sensorless, high- precision manipulation with a triangular corner fixture and reduced grasp uncertainty
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award
Advance Scheduling for Chronic Care under Online or Offline Revisit Uncertainty
Xiaoxiao Shen, Shi-Chang Du, Yan-Ning Sun, Poly Z. H. Sun, Rob Law, and Edmond Q. Wu
Volume 21, no. 4, pp. 5297 ‐ 5310, October 2024
For a novel stochastic scheduling framework that unifies online and offline chronic care appointments and optimizes physician assignment.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award
Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems
Yehan Ma, Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike- Akino, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Xinping Guan, and Chenyang Lu
Volume 21, no.1, pp. 269 ‐ 283, January 2024
For a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics Best Paper Award
Steady-Hand Eye Robot 3.0: Optimization and Benchtop Evaluation for Subretinal Injection
Alireza Alamdar; David E. Usevitch; Jiahao Wu;Russell H. Taylor; Peter Gehlbach; Iulian Iordachita
Volume 6, no. 1, pp. 135 ‐ 145, Feb. 2024
Special Recognition
RAS recognizes the following Administrative Committee (AdCom) Members and Officers whose terms ended in 2024. Their dedication and hard work is greatly appreciated.
Arash Ajoudani Fumihito Arai Inna Sharf Kenji Suzuki
IEEE RAS Awards
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ICRA 2025 Awards All papers listed as finalists for topical awards are eligible for the overall Best Paper Awards. Papers with a * are also eligible for the overall Best Student Paper Award.
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation 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, Bhaskar Vundurthy, Zhongqiang Ren, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Howie Choset *Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference Tianqi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, and Wei Zhan
Awards Committee: Maria Pia Fanti (Politecnico Di Bari, Italy), Michael Wang (Great Bay University, China), Fabio Bonsignoro (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning 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, Krzysztof 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, and Pannag Sanketi *Robo-DM: Data Management For Large Robot Datasets Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Yanxiang Zhang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ted Xiao, Pannag Sanketi, John Kubiatowicz, and Ken Goldberg *No Plan but Everything under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent Vito Mengers and Oliver Brock
Awards Committee: Matthew Walter (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA), Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda University, Japan), Jens Kober (TU Delft, Netherlands)
ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction - Finalists
*Human-Agent Joint Learning for Efficient Robot Manipulation Skill Acquisition Shengcheng Luo, Quanquan Peng, Jun Lv, Kaiwen Hong, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Cewu Lu, and Yong-Lu Li *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, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee *Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, and Martin Jagersand
Awards Committee: Sonia Chernova (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan, USA), Paolo Rocco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Takayuki Kanda (Kyoto University, Japan)
ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design - Finalists
*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, and Justin Werfel *Informed Repurposing of Quadruped Legs for New Tasks Fuchen Chen and Daniel Aukes *Intelligent Self-Healing Artificial Muscle: Mechanisms for Damage Detection and Autonomous Repair of Puncture Damage in Soft Robotics Ethan Krings, Patrick Mcmanigal, and Eric Markvicka
Awards Committee: Mark R. Cutkosky (Stanford University, USA), Kenjiro Tadakuma (Osaka University, Japan), John Wen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Pauline Pounds (University of Queensland, Australia), Cynthia Sung (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics Finalists
*Image-Based Compliance Control for Robotic Steering of a Ferromagnetic Guidewire An Hu, Chen Sun, Adam Dmytriw, Nan Xiao, and Yu Sun *AutoPeel: Adhesion-Aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, and Michael C. Yip *In-Vivo Tendon-Driven Rodent Ankle Exoskeleton System for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Juwan Han, Seunghyeon Park, and Keehoon Kim
Awards Committee: Pietro Valdastri (University of Leeds, UK), Amy Kyungwon Han (Seoul National University, Korea), Jake Abbott (University of Utah, USA)
Distributed Multi-Robot Source Seeking in Unknown Environments with Unknown Number of Sources Lingpeng Chen, Siva Kailas, Srujan Deolasee, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara, and Woojun Kim * 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, and Jiaoyang Li * Multi-Nonholonomic Robot Object Transportation with Obstacle Crossing Using a Deformable Sheet Weijian Zhang, Charlie Street, and Masoumeh Mansouri ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems Finalists
Awards Committee: Gaurav Sukhatme (University of Southern California, USA), Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol, UK), Alyssa Pierson (Boston University, USA), Mac Schwager (Stanford University, USA), Heiko Hamann (University of Konstanz, Germany)
*Full-Order Sampling-Based MPC for Torque-Level Locomotion Control Via Diffusion-Style Annealing Haoru Xue, Chaoyi Pan, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, and Guanya Shi *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, and Lin Shao *TrofyBot: A Transformable Rolling and Flying Robot with High Energy Efficiency Mingwei Lai, Yuqian Ye, Hanyu Wu, Chice Xuan, Ruibin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Manipulation and Locomotion - Finalists
Awards Committee: Kris Hauser (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Yu Sun, (University of South Florida, USA), Kensuke Harada (Osaka University, USA)
ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Perception Finalists
*MAC-VO: Metrics-Aware Covariance for Learning-Based Stereo Visual Odometry Yuheng Qiu, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, and Sebastian Scherer *Ground-Optimized 4D Radar-Inertial Odometry Via Continuous Velocity Integration Using Gaussian Process Wooseong Yang, Hyesu Jang, and 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, and Li Fei-Fei
Awards Committee: Wolfram Burgard (University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany), Margarita Chli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland and University of Cyprus), Jana Kosecka (George Mason University, USA), Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn, Germany)
ICRA Best Paper Award in Field and Service Robotics - Finalists
*PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-Rich Manipulation Using Tactile-Diffusion Policies Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, and Edward Adelson A New Stereo Fisheye Event Camera for Fast Drone Detection and Tracking Daniel Rodrigues Da Costa, Maxime Robic, Pascal Vasseur, and Fabio Morbidi *Learning-Based Adaptive Navigation for Scalar Field Mapping and Feature Tracking Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, and Leonardo Bobadilla
Awards Committee: Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Venkat Krovi (Clemson University, USA), Brendan Englot (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA), Genya Ishigami (Keio University, Japan)
*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, and Suresh Jagannathan * Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians Onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, and Timothy Barfoot * No Plan but Everything under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent Vito Mengers and Oliver Brock ICRA Best Paper Award on Planning and Control Finalists
Awards Committee: Ram Vasudevan (University of Michigan, USA), Lydia Tapia (University of New Mexico, USA), Guillaume Sartoretti (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ICRA Best Paper Award Additional Finalists Papers with a * are also eligible for the Best Student Paper Award.
*MiniVLN: Efficient Vision-And-Language Navigation by Progressive Knowledge Distillation Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, and Jing Liu *RoboCrowd: Scaling Robot Data Collection through Crowdsourcing Suvir Mirchandani, David D. Yuan, Kaylee Burns, Md Sazzad Islam, Zihao Zhao, Chelsea Finn, and Dorsa Sadigh How Sound-Based Robot Communication Impacts Perceptions of Robotic Failure Jai'La Lee Crider, Rhian Preston, and 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, and Marco Hutter * Dynamic Tube MPC: Learning Error Dynamics with Massively Parallel Simulation for Robust Safety in Practice William Compton, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Cole Johnson, and Aaron Ames
Awards Committee: Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Arianna Menciassi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Hanna Kurniawati (Australian National University, Australia), Allison Okamura (Stanford University, USA)
ICRA Best Paper Award Additional Finalists Papers with a * are also eligible for the Best Student Paper Award.
*Bat-VUFN: Bat-Inspired Visual-And-Ultrasound Fusion Network for Robust Perception in Adverse Conditions Gyeongrok Lim, Jeong-Ui Hong, and Hyeon Min 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, and Sawyer Fuller * TSCLIP: Robust CLIP Fine-Tuning for Worldwide Cross- Regional Traffic Sign Recognition Guoyang Zhao, Fulong Ma, Weiqing Qi, Chenguang Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu, and Jun Ma * Geometric Design and Gait Co-Optimization for Soft Continuum Robots Swimming at Low and High Reynolds Numbers Yanhao Yang and Ross Hatton
Awards Committee: Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Arianna Menciassi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Hanna Kurniawati (Australian National University, Australia), Allison Okamura (Stanford University, USA)
ICRA Best Paper Award Additional Finalists Papers with a * are also eligible for the Best Student Paper Award.
*ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, and 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, and Kai Huang *Configuration-Adaptive Visual Relative Localization for Spherical Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots Yuming Liu, Qiu Zheng, Yuxiao Tu, Yuan Gao, Guanqi Liang, and 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, and Lihua Xie
Awards Committee: Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Arianna Menciassi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Hanna Kurniawati (Australian National University, Australia), Allison Okamura (Stanford University, USA)
ICRA 2025 Awards Conference Editorial Board Awards
Creating a world class technical program for ICRA requires the contributions of many.
With the following awards, IEEE RAS recognizes individuals who provided outstanding contributions to the Conference Editorial Board, which is responsible for reviewing the submissions to ICRA.
Outstanding Associate Editor
Pyojin Kim — Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea
Sajid Nisar — Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan
Hasan Poonawala — University of Kentucky, USA
Marco Cognetti — LAAS-CNRS and Université de Toulouse, France
Anh Nguyen — University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
ICRA 2025 Awards Conference Editorial Board Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award
Abdalla Swikir — Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
Long Zeng — Tsinghua University, China
Koutras Leonidas — Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Joao Marcos Correia Marques — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Hyungtae Lim — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The Robotics Medal By MassRobotics
Recognizing the wide-ranging impact and achievements of female researchers focusing on the development of robotics around the globe
2025 Robotics Medal Award
University of California, San Diego Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Tania Morimoto
University of Southern California Chairand Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering Maja Matarić
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026)
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