Programme

The workshop features invited talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations. Each event will foster discussions, emphasizing interactions between early-career and senior researchers.

Invited talks: Invited speakers will share their latest research in 20-minute talks.

Panel discussions: 30-minute Q&A and panel discussions will take place at the end of the workshop. The organizers will moderate with questions from both in-person and online audiences.

Poster presentations: Selected poster contributions will have a 1-minute teaser in the Poster Spotlight session, followed by a poster session.

Workshop Schedule (Tentative)

Time Event Description
08:30 – 08:35 Opening Welcome and foreword (5 mins)
08:35 – 09:00   Kensuke Harada: Realizing robust motion planning for robotic manipulation tasks
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
09:00 – 09:25   Tetsuya Ogata: Latent Representation for Error Recovery in End-to-End Robot Motion Generation
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
09:25 – 09:50   Xiaokun Leng: Development of Humanoid Robot Technology and its Industrialization
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
09:50 – 10:10   Poster spotlights (20 mins)
10:10 – 10:40 Break Coffee, posters, demonstrations (30 mins)
10:40 – 11:05   Sylvain Calinon: Exploiting Geometric Approaches and Ergodic Control for Robust Manipulation
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
11:05 – 11:30   Dimitrios Kanoulas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-Robustness of Robots that have Limbs
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
11:30 – 11:55   Jiaolong Yang: Towards Foundational Robotic Vision-Language-Action Models that Generalize
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
11:55 – 12:25   Panel discussion (30 mins)
12:25 – 12:30 Closing Conclusion, best poster award, and farewell (5 mins)