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

Time Event Description
09:00 – 09:05 Opening Welcome and foreword (5 mins)
09:05 – 09:30   Kensuke Harada: Realizing robust motion planning for robotic manipulation tasks
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
09:30 – 09:55   Tetsuya Ogata: Latent Representation for Error Recovery in End-to-End Robot Motion Generation
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
09:55 – 10:20   Xiaokun Leng: Development of Humanoid Robot Technology and its Industrialization
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
10:20 – 10:35   Poster spotlights (15 mins)
10:35 – 11:05 Break Coffee, posters, demonstrations (30 mins)
11:05 – 11:30   Sylvain Calinon: Exploiting Geometric Approaches and Ergodic Control for Robust Manipulation
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
11:30 – 11:40   Dimitrios Kanoulas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-Robustness of Robots that have Limbs
(10 mins)
11:40 – 12:05   Jiaolong Yang: Towards Foundational Robotic Vision-Language-Action Models that Generalize
(20 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
12:05 – 12:35   Panel discussion (30 mins)
12:35 – 12:45 Closing Conclusion, best poster award, and farewell (10 mins)