ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. It is thus our honor and pleasure to welcome you to this edition, although the current exceptional circumstances did not allow us to organize it in Paris as planned with the glimpse and splendor that our wonderful robotics community deserves. Now, for sure, Virtual ICRA 2020, the first online ICRA, will be one of the most memorable ICRA editions ever! [Message from the General & Program Chairs]

Live Plenary Panel – COVID-19 : How Roboticist Can Help ?

Our first Plenary is a hot topic panel on COVID-19 Pandemic & Robotics, moderated by Ken Goldberg and chaired by Wolfram Burgard. Catch it on Big Screen or on IEEE.TV.

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Join us for the virtual conference taking place May 31 to August 31 with sessions available both live and on demand. Plenaries and keynotes will be featured every afternoon (Central European Time) from June 1 to June 15, with live interactive Q&A sessions with the speaker. Our goal is bringing cutting-edge ICRA sessions to our community around the globe and provide opportunities to network with like-minded professionals from around the world. We hope that this offering reaches new members of our community and creates engaging discussions within the virtual conference platform.

Schedule

Special RAS Events

There are also several virtual gatherings for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) society members and Students. Scroll below for more information.

• Meet the Leaders
• Student Video Challenge
• SAC Logo Design Contest
• SAC Robot Trivia
• Young Professionals Networking Event
• Women in Engineering –  Summer Mentoring Event
• RAS Town Hall

RAS Meet the Leaders (formally Lunch with Leaders) 

RAS Meet the Leaders is the virtual equivalent of the popular RAS Lunch with Leaders event traditionally held at IEEE RAS’s flagship conferences: ICRA, CASE, and IROS.

Meet the Leaders is planned for multiple dates and time zones to accommodate the international robotics community. Each Leader will begin with an informal 5-minute presentation about their career, followed by a question and answer session.

Participants (students and young professionals) may sign up for ONE session to participate in a relaxed chat with academic and industry leaders from around the world.

The following Leaders are confirmed for the dates and times listed below (check back often for additional sessions):

• Tuesday, June 2nd @ 12:00 PDT / 19:00 GMT
  Aleksandra Faust, 2020 RAS Early Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation
• Wednesday, June 3rd @ 10:00 am AEST / 00:00 GMT
  Peter Corke, 2020 RAS George Saridis Leadership Award, (and colleagues)
• Thursday, June 4th @ 8:00 pm JST / 11:00 GMT
  Toshio Fukuda, IEEE President
• Thursday, June 4th @ 13:00 EDT / 17:00 GMT
  Jaydev Desai, RAS AdCom Class of 2022
• Monday, June 8th @ 12:30 JST / 03:30 GMT
  Zhidong Wang, RAS VP Electronic Products and Services Board, Yasushi Nakauchi RAS VP Financial Activities Board, Yasuhisa Hirata, RAS AdCom Class of 2022
• Tuesday, June 9th @ 1:00 am KST / 16:00:00 GMT (Monday, June 8)
  Frank Park, RAS President Elect
• Tuesday, June 9th @ 12:00 CDT / 17:00 GMT
  Lydia Kavraki, 2020 RAS Pioneer Award Winner
• Thursday, June 11th @ 10:00 am PDT / 17:00:00 GMT
  Allison Okamura, Editor-in-Chief of RA-L and Marcia O’Malley, IROS 2020 Program Chair
• Thursday, June 11th @ 12:00 pm PDT / 19:00:00 GMT
  Dieter Fox, 2020 RAS Pioneer Award WinnerFriday,
• June 12th @ 3:00 pm CEST / 13:00 GMT
  Torsten Kroeger, RAS Vice President of Conference Activities
• Registration Form (Required): https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/3834d7362695475f915f52b1653439c9