Congratulations to the #ICRA2025 finest paper award winners

The 2025 IEEE Worldwide Convention on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) finest paper winners and finalists within the varied totally different classes have been introduced. The recipients had been revealed throughout an award ceremony on the convention, which happened from 19-23 Could in Atlanta, USA.

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Robotic Studying

Winner

• *Robo-DM: Knowledge Administration for Giant 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

• Reaching Human Degree Aggressive Robotic Desk 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, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi
• *No Plan however All the pieces underneath Management: Robustly Fixing Sequential Duties with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Area and Service Robotics

Winner

• *PolyTouch: A Sturdy Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-Wealthy Manipulation Utilizing Tactile-Diffusion Insurance policies, Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, Edward Adelson

Finalists

• A New Stereo Fisheye Occasion Digital camera for Quick Drone Detection and Monitoring, Daniel Rodrigues Da Costa, Maxime Robic, Pascal Vasseur, Fabio Morbidi
• *Studying-Based mostly Adaptive Navigation for Scalar Area Mapping and Function Monitoring, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Human-Robotic Interplay

Winner

• *Human-Agent Joint Studying for Environment friendly Robotic Manipulation Talent Acquisition, Shengchent Luo, Quanuan Peng, Jun Lv, Kaiwen Hong, Katherin Driggs-Campbell, Cewu Lu, Yong-Lu Li

Finalists

• *To Ask or To not Ask: Human-In-The-Loop Contextual Bandits with Functions in Robotic-Assisted Feeding, Rohan Banerjee, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Sidharth Vasudev, Amal Nanavati, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
• *Level and Go: Intuitive Reference Body Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design

Winner

• Particular person and Collective Behaviors in Tender Robotic Worms Impressed by Dwelling Worm Blobs, Carina Kaeser, Junghan Kwon, Elio Challita, Harry Tuazon, Robert Wooden, Saad Bhamla, Justin Werfel

Finalists

• *Knowledgeable Repurposing of Quadruped Legs for New Duties, Fuchen Chen, Daniel Aukes
• *Clever Self-Therapeutic Synthetic Muscle: Mechanisms for Injury Detection and Autonomous, Ethan Krings, Patrick Mcmanigal, Eric Markvicka

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Planning and Management

Winner

• *No Plan however All the pieces underneath Management: Robustly Fixing Sequential Duties with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock

Finalists

• *SELP: Producing Secure and Environment friendly Process Plans for Robotic Brokers with Giant Language Fashions, 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 Clean Manifolds with Functions in Robotics, Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, Timothy Barfoot

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Robotic Notion

Winner

• *MAC-VO: Metrics-Conscious Covariance for Studying-Based mostly Stereo Visible Odometry, Yuheng Qju, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, Sebastian Scherer

Finalists

• *Floor-Optimized 4D Radar-Inertial Odometry By way of Steady Velocity Integration Utilizing Gaussian Course of, Wooseong Yang, Hyesu Jang, 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, Li Fei-Fei

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Robotic Manipulation and Locomotion

Winner

• *D(R, O) Grasp: A Unified Illustration of Robotic and Object Interplay for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Greedy, Zhenyu Wei, Zhixuan Xu, Jingxiang Guo, Yiwen Hou, Chongkai Gao, Zhehao Cai, Jiayu Luo, Lin Shao

Finalists

• *Full-Order Sampling-Based mostly MPC for Torque-Degree Locomotion Management By way of Diffusion-Type Annealing, Haoru Xue, Chaoyi Pan, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi
• *TrofyBot: A Transformable Rolling and Flying Robotic with Excessive Power Effectivity, Mingwei Lai, Yugian Ye, Hanyu Wu, Chice Xuan, Ruibin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Automation

Winner

• *Physics-Conscious Robotic Palletization with On-line Masking Inference, Tiangi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, Wei Zhan

Finalists

• *In-Airplane Manipulation of Tender Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope, Jieyun Zou, Siyuan An, Mingyue Wang, Jiaqi Li, Yalin Shi, You-Fu Li, Tune Liu
• *A Full and Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for a Shifting Goal Touring Salesman Downside with Obstacles in 3D, Anoop Bhat, Geordan Gutow, Bhaskhar Vundurthy, Zhonggiang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Howie Choset

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award in Medical Robotics

Winner

• *In-Vivo Tendon-Pushed Rodent Ankle Exoskeleton System for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation, Juwan Han, Seunghyeon Park, Keehon Kim

Finalists

• *Picture-Based mostly Compliance Management for Robotic Steering of a Ferromagnetic Guidewire, An Hu, Chen Solar, Adam Dmytriw, Nan Xiao, Yu Solar
• *AutoPeel: Adhesion-Conscious Secure Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care, Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip

IEEE ICRA Finest Paper Award on Multi-Robotic Programs

Winner

• *Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Studying for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Discovering, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li

Finalists

• Distributed Multi-Robotic Supply Searching for in Unknown Environments with Unknown Variety of Sources, Lingpeng Chen, Siva Kailas, Srujan Deolasee, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara, Woojun Kim
• *Multi-Nonholonomic Robotic Object Transportation with Impediment Crossing Utilizing a Deformable Sheet, Weijian Zhang, Charlie Road, Masoumeh Mansouri

IEEE ICRA Finest Convention Paper Award

Winners

• *Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians Onto Linear Approximations of Clean Manifolds with Functions in Robotics, Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, Timothy Barfoot
• *MAC-VO: Metrics-Conscious Covariance for Studying-Based mostly Stereo Visible Odometry, Yuheng Qju, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, Sebastian Scherer

Along with the papers listed above, these paper had been additionally finalists for the IEEE ICRA Finest Convention Paper Award.

Finalists

• *MiniVLN: Environment friendly Imaginative and prescient-And-Language Navigation by Progressive Information Distillation, Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
• *RoboCrowd: Scaling Robotic Knowledge Assortment by Crowdsourcing, Suvir Mirchandani, David D. Yuan, Kaylee Burns, Md Sazzad Islam, Zihao Zhao, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
• How Sound-Based mostly Robotic Communication Impacts Perceptions of Robotic Failure, Jai’La Lee Crider, Rhian Preston, Naomi T. Fitter
• *Impediment-Avoidant Chief Following with a Quadruped Robotic, Carmen Scheidemann, Lennart Werner, Victor Reijgwart, Andrei Cramariuc, Joris Chomarat, Jia-Ruei Chiu, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter
• *Dynamic Tube MPC: Studying Error Dynamics with Massively Parallel Simulation for Sturdy Security in Follow, William Compton, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Cole Johnson, Aaron Ames
• *Bat-VUFN: Bat-Impressed Visible-And-Ultrasound Fusion Community for Sturdy Notion in Adversarial Circumstances, Gyeongrok Lim, Jeong-ui Hong, Min Hyeon Bae
• *TinySense: A Lighter Weight and Extra Energy-Environment friendly Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller
• *TSCLIP: Sturdy CLIP Positive-Tuning for Worldwide Cross-Regional Visitors Signal Recognition, Guoyang Zhao, Fulong Ma, Weiging Qi, Chenguang Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu, Jun Ma
• *Geometric Design and Gait Co-Optimization for Tender Continuum Robots Swimming at Low and Excessive Reynolds Numbers, Yanhao Yang, Ross Hatton
• *ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Regular Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Coloured Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
• *Occlusion-aware 6D Pose Estimation with Depth-guided Graph Encoding and Cross-semantic Fusion for Robotic Greedy, Jingyang Liu, Zhenyu Lu, Lu Chen, Jing Yang, Chenguang Yang
• *Steady Monitoring of Eye Gaze Route Throughout Ophthalmic Surgical procedure, Tinghe Hong, Shenlin Cai, Boyang Li, Kai Huang
• *Configuration-Adaptive Visible Relative Localization for Spherical Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Yuming Liu, Qiu Zheng, Yuxiao Tu, Yuan Gao, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam
• *Realm: Actual-Time Line-Of-Sight Upkeep in Multi-Robotic Navigation with Unknown Obstacles, Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Li, Hongliang Guo, Wei-Yun Yau, Lihua Xie

IEEE ICRA Finest Scholar Paper Award

Winners

• *Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Studying for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Discovering, He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li
• *ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Regular Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Coloured Shadows, Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
• *Level and Go: Intuitive Reference Body Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics, Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand
• *TinySense: A Lighter Weight and Extra Energy-Environment friendly Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots, Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller

Word: papers with an * had been eligible for the IEEE ICRA Finest Scholar Paper Award.