Congratulations to the #ICRA2025 best paper award winners

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) best paper winners and finalists in the numerous different groups have actually been revealed. The receivers were disclosed throughout an honor event at the meeting, which happened from 19-23 Might in Atlanta, United States.

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor on Robotic Understanding

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• * Robo-DM: Information Monitoring for Huge Robotic 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

• Accomplishing Human Degree Competitive Robotic 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, Elegance Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi
• * No Strategy however Every Little Thing controlled: Robustly Fixing Consecutive Jobs with Dynamically Made Up Slope Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor in Area and Solution Robotics

Victor

• * PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensing Unit for Contact-Rich Adjustment Utilizing Tactile-Diffusion Plans, Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, Edward Adelson

Finalists

• A Brand-new Stereo Fisheye Occasion Electronic Camera for Rapid Drone Discovery and Tracking, Daniel Rodrigues Da Costa, Maxime Robic, Pascal Vasseur, Fabio Morbidi
• * Learning-Based Flexible Navigating for Scalar Area Mapping and Function Monitoring, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor on Human-Robot Communication

Victor

• * Human-Agent Joint Understanding for Effective Robotic Adjustment Ability Purchase, Shengchent Luo, Quanuan Peng, Jun Lv, Kaiwen Hong, Katherin Driggs-Campbell, Cewu Lu, Yong-Lu Li

Finalists

• * To Ask or otherwise 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
• * Factor and Go: Instinctive Recommendation Structure Reallocation in Setting Changing for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor on Systems and Style

Victor

• Person and Cumulative Habits in Soft Robotic Worms Influenced by Living Worm Blobs, Carina Kaeser, Junghan Kwon, Elio Challita, Harry Tuazon, Robert Timber, Saad Bhamla, Justin Werfel

Finalists

• * Notified Repurposing of Quadruped Legs for New Tasks, Fuchen Chen, Daniel Aukes
• * Smart Self-Healing Artificial Muscular Tissue: Systems for Damages Discovery and Self-governing, Ethan Krings, Patrick Mcmanigal, Eric Markvicka

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor on Preparation and Control

Victor

• * No Strategy however Every Little Thing controlled: Robustly Fixing Consecutive Jobs with Dynamically Made Up Slope Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

Finalists

• * SELP: Getting Safe and Effective Job Prepare For Robotic Representatives with Huge Language Versions, 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 Finest Paper Honor in Robotic Assumption

Victor

• * 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 Constant Speed Assimilation Utilizing Gaussian Refine, Wooseong Yang, Hyesu Jang, Ayoung Kim
• * UAD: Not Being Watched Affordance Purification for Generalization in Robot Adjustment, Yihe Flavor, Wenlong Huang, Yingke Wang, Chengshu Li, Roy Yuan, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor in Robotic Adjustment and Mobility

Victor

• * D( R, O) Understanding: A Unified Depiction of Robotic and Things Communication 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 Mobility Control Via Diffusion-Style Annealing, Haoru Xue, Chaoyi Frying Pan, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi
• * TrofyBot: A Transformable Rolling and Traveling Robotic with High Power Effectiveness, Mingwei Lai, Yugian Ye, Hanyu Wu, Chice Xuan, Ruibin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor in Automation

Victor

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

Finalists

• * In-Plane Adjustment of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Range and Microscopic Lense, Jieyun Zou, Siyuan An, Mingyue Wang, Jiaqi Li, Yalin Shi, You-Fu Li, Tune Liu
• * A Full and Bounded-Suboptimal Formula for a Relocating Target Taking A Trip Salesperson Issue with Obstacles in 3D, Anoop Bhat, Geordan Gutow, Bhaskhar Vundurthy, Zhonggiang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Howie Choset

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor in Clinical Robotics

Victor

• * In-Vivo Tendon-Driven Rat Ankle Joint Exoskeleton System for Sensorimotor Recovery, Juwan Han, Seunghyeon Park, Keehon Kim

Finalists

• * Image-Based Conformity Control for Robotic Guiding of a Ferromagnetic Guidewire, An Hu, Chen Sunlight, Adam Dmytriw, Nan Xiao, Yu Sunlight
• * AutoPeel: Adhesion-Aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robot Injury Treatment, Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Honor on Multi-Robot Solution

Victor

• * Releasing 10 Thousand Robots: Scalable Replica Understanding for Lifelong Multi-Agent Course Searching For, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li

Finalists

• Dispersed Multi-Robot Resource Looking For in Unidentified Atmospheres with Unidentified Variety Of Resources, Lingpeng Chen, Siva Kailas, Srujan Deolasee, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara, Woojun Kim
• * Multi-Nonholonomic Robotic Things Transport with Challenge Crossing Utilizing a Deformable Sheet, Weijian Zhang, Charlie Road, Masoumeh Mansouri

IEEE ICRA Finest Meeting Paper Honor

Victors

• * 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

Along with the documents provided above, these paper were likewise finalists for the IEEE ICRA Finest Meeting Paper Honor.

Finalists

• * MiniVLN: Effective Vision-And-Language Navigating by Progressive Expertise Purification, Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
• * RoboCrowd: Scaling Robotic Information Collection via Crowdsourcing, Suvir Mirchandani, David D. Yuan, Kaylee Burns, Md Sazzad Islam, Zihao Zhao, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
• Exactly How Sound-Based Robotic Interaction Effects Understandings of Robot Failing, Jai’La Lee Crider, Rhian Preston, Naomi T. Fitter
• * Obstacle-Avoidant Leader Adhering To with a Quadruped Robotic, Carmen Scheidemann, Lennart Werner, Victor Reijgwart, Andrei Cramariuc, Joris Chomarat, Jia-Ruei Chiu, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter
• * Dynamic Tube MPC: Understanding Mistake Characteristics with Enormously Identical Simulation for Robust Safety And Security in Technique, William Compton, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Cole Johnson, Aaron Ames
• * Bat-VUFN: Bat-Inspired Visual-And-Ultrasound Blend Network for Robust Assumption in Negative Problems, Gyeongrok Lim, Jeong-ui Hong, Minutes Hyeon Bae
• * TinySense: A Lighter In Weight Weight and A Lot More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Traveling Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Richer
• * TSCLIP: Durable CLIP Adjusting for Worldwide Cross-Regional Website Traffic Indicator Acknowledgment, Guoyang Zhao, Fulong Ma, Weiging Qi, Chenguang Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu, Jun Ma
• * Geometric Style and Stride Co-Optimization for Soft Continuum Robots Swimming at Reduced and High Reynolds Numbers, Yanhao Yang, Ross Hatton
• * ShadowTac: Dense Dimension of Shear and Regular Contortion of a Tactile Membrane Layer from Colored Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
• * Occlusion-aware 6D Present Estimate with Depth-guided Chart Encoding and Cross-semantic Blend for Robot Grasping, Jingyang Liu, Zhenyu Lu, Lu Chen, Jing Yang, Chenguang Yang
• * Steady Tracking of Eye Gaze Instructions Throughout Sensory Surgical Treatment, Tinghe Hong, Shenlin Cai, Boyang Li, Kai Huang
• * Configuration-Adaptive Visual Loved One Localization for Round Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Yuming Liu, Qiu Zheng, Yuxiao Tu, Yuan Gao, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam
• * World: Real-Time Line-Of-Sight Upkeep in Multi-Robot Navigating with Unidentified Challenges, Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Li, Hongliang Guo, Wei-Yun Yau, Lihua Xie

IEEE ICRA Finest Pupil Paper Honor

Victors

• * Releasing 10 Thousand Robots: Scalable Replica Understanding for Lifelong Multi-Agent Course Searching For, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li
• * ShadowTac: Dense Dimension of Shear and Regular Contortion of a Tactile Membrane Layer from Colored Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
• * Factor and Go: Instinctive Recommendation Structure Reallocation in Setting Changing for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand
• * TinySense: A Lighter In Weight Weight and A Lot More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Traveling Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Richer

Note: documents with an * were qualified for the IEEE ICRA Finest Pupil Paper Honor.

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