April 2025 - RoboCup-worldwide

2025 Call for Nominations for Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards
by h.okada 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

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[jobs] Postdoc opportunity - UT Austin
by Peter Stone 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, USA POSITION: Post-doctoral fellow on Robotics, Multiagent Systems, and Reinforcement Learning CONTACT: Prof. Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin 2317 Speedway, Stop D9500 Austin, TX 78712 USA pstone(a)cs.utexas.edu www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow of one year, possibly renewable for additional years, in the Department of Computer Science in the Learning Agents Research Group headed by Prof. Peter Stone. Primary responsibilities include performing cutting-edge research in collaboration with faculty, Ph.D. students, and other researchers. The research will focus on developing and testing novel algorithms for in connection with a range of projects related to robotics and multiagent reinforcement learning. Motivating use cases include long-term autonomous service robots, robot soccer, and social navigation. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field. Experience with machine learning and intelligent robotics is essential. Experience in deep reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, and/or ROS is desired. TO APPLY: Applicants should send by email to pstone(a)cs.utexas.edu - a curriculum vitae - names of two references with contact information - a two-page summary of past research and relevant qualifications - a personal Web page, if available, where further details can be found This position is to start as early as June of 2025 or at any agreed upon later date. Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

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short survey about hands-on robotics teaching
by Andreas Birk 26 Apr '25

26 Apr '25

Dear all, if you do hands-on teaching in robotics, e.g., labs, projects, theses, I would be very grateful if you participate in the following survey: https://forms.gle/4JoP7KJuww9pLbxaA It should just take 5 to 10 minutes to complete. The purpose of this survey is to understand the current state of equipment use, i.e., the combination of equipment like hardware or a simulation with access forms like in-presence versus remote access over the web. This includes the question whether there are lasting effects on hands-on robotics teaching after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a follow-up of a study 5 years ago, which appeared in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine: A. Birk and D. Simunovic, "Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?," IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), vol. 28, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2021.3102979 (open access) Many thanks & kind regards, Andreas -- ========================================================================================== Prof. Dr. Andreas Birk ========================================================================================== Constructor University Robotics Group Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany https://robotics.constructor.university/ ========================================================================================== Commercial registry: Amtsgericht Bremen, HRB 18117 Chairs of the Executive Board (Vorsitzende der Geschäftsführung): Dr. Stanislav Protasov (President/Präsident), Turgut Tülü (Chancellor/Kanzler) Managing Directors (Geschäftsführung): Prof. Dr. Thomas Auf der Heyde & Serguei Kouzmine Chairwoman of the Board of Governors (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende): Oznur Bell ==========================================================================================

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Introducing MiROS - Visual Programming Tool for ROS
by MiRobot Team 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear Roboticists, We know that getting started with ROS can be challenging - especially for newcomers. Installing and configuring ROS on Ubuntu is time-consuming, and for Windows or Mac users, running a VM is often a hassle. That’s why we created MiROS, a browser-based, visual programming tool designed to simplify ROS development for everyone. MiROS makes it easier than ever to program ROS robots with drag-and-drop workflows, intuitive setup, and instant deployment - all without needing a virtual machine. Key Features: • Visual editor for creating ROS packages, nodes, topics, and services • Native support for Linux, Mac & Windows - no VM required • Quick 10~15 minute installation and setup • Start projects using prebuilt robot templates • Run Gazebo, Rviz, and RQT directly in your browser • Deploy and run packages wirelessly on real robots • Built-in Monaco Code Editor (core editor for VS Code) • Auto code generation in C/C++ and Python • GitHub integration for streamlined collaboration MiROS is completely free and designed to make ROS programming more accessible and efficient - for students, educators, and professionals alike. Get started now at: https://www.mirobot.ai/miros MiROS supports any ROS 2 robot with SSH access, and includes templates for over 10 robot platforms - with more being added regularly. MiROS is also bundled with our educational robot kits, making it a powerful tool for both research and teaching. Learn more about our hardware here: https://www.mirobot.ai/storeitems/p/codebot We’re always improving MiROS and would love to hear your feedback or questions. Reach out anytime - we’d love to connect! Best regards, The MiROS Team The Future is Now! W - www.mirobot.ai T - +61 1300991274 A - Level 15, Grosvenor Place, 225 George St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

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RoboCup International Symposium 2025 call for papers - final deadline extension (corrected)
by Rudi Villing 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

In response to requests we have extended the submission deadline to 21 April 2025. This is the final deadline. Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2025 https://2025.robocup.org/symposium/ Monday 21 July 2025 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The 28th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with RoboCup 2025 (15 July to 20 July 2024), in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium will be held in person at the Salvador Convention Center (CCS), Av. Octávio Mangabeira, 5.490 Boca do Rio - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 21 April 2025 (final extended deadline) Notification to authors: 30 May 2025 Submission of camera-ready copies: 13 June 2025 RoboCup Symposium 2025: 21 July 2025 (RoboCup on 15-20 July 2025) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through Springer’s Meteor electronic-submission system. To submit a paper, please visit https://meteor.springer.com/robocup2025, and follow the instructions to register (if you have not previously registered with Meteor), or login. Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer’s proceedings LaTeX template (v2.24), and a link to the template in Overleaf: (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…) TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2025, the scope of this track includes datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ana Patrícia Fontes Magalhães Mascarenhas (UNEB, Brazil) Alexander Ferrein (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Rudi Villing (Maynooth University, Ireland) LOCAL ORGANIZERS Marco Antônio Costa Simões (UNEB, Brazil) Reinaldo Bianchi (Centro Universitário FEI, Brazil) CONTACT You can contact via the PC chairs via the Meteor website VISA INFORMATION If you are a citizen of a country that needs a Visa for traveling to the Brazil, please start the VISA process as soon as possible. If you are not sure if you are eligible for a VISA-exemption, please consult the official website of the Brazilian government for information, at https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/assuntos/portal-consular/vistos/informacoes-so… (Information is in English below each paragraph in Portuguese).

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[Meetings] [CFP] Roboletics 2.0: Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills at ICRA 2025 – Deadline Extension and Travel Support Announcement
by Alap Kshirsagar 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Dear all, The submission deadline for *Roboletics 2.0: Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills* at ICRA 2025 has been extended to *April 20*. We’re also excited to announce a *special session on RoboCup* as part of the workshop, along with a *"Best RoboCup-Themed Paper Award"* sponsored by the *IEEE RAS Technical Committee on RoboCup*. In addition, the RoboCup TC will offer *travel support for participants from underrepresented regions*. This workshop brings together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to explore cutting-edge innovations in athletic robotics. The event aims to accelerate the transition of agile robots from controlled labs to complex, real-world environments. Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/roboletics2 Workshop Date: May 23, 2025 Location: Atlanta, USA Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025 We invite researchers to submit their contributions to the workshop in the form of short papers (2 pages) accompanied by video demonstrations or standalone papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented as posters, presentations, and videos, and with the authors' permission, they will be published on the workshop website. All papers must be submitted in PDF and must follow the IEEE Conference format. All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). Both unpublished original contributions and previously published work may be submitted. Topics of Interest include: - Systems design enabling athletic behaviors in robots - Real-time controllers and planners for athletic movements - Safety frameworks for athletic robots - Sensing and state estimation under time and compute constraints with incomplete and imperfect knowledge of the world - Communication systems for robotic team sports - Synthesizing strategies for sports-playing robots - Human-robot collaboration for athletic and agile robots We encourage submissions related to the leagues of RoboCup ( https://www.robocup.org/). We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop. Organizing Committee: Matthew Gombolay, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Zulfiqar Zaidi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Alap Kshirsagar, TU Darmstadt, Germany Kin Man Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kai Ploeger, TU Darmstadt, Germany Zixuan Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Qingyu Xiao, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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2nd CfP: KI 2025: German AI Conference, 16–19 September, Potsdam (Germany)
by Frieder Stolzenburg 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

================================= Call for Contributions KI 2025 <https://ki2025.gi.de> Potsdam, September 16-19, 2025 ================================= On September 16-19, 2025, the German AI conference KI2025 will take place. We cordially invite you to join! In 2025, KI and INFORMATIK will be co-located, so that we can exchange with computer science society. To make KI2025 a resounding success, we call for your papers and doctoral consortium contributions. The deadlines are: 18.04.25 Abstract Submission 25.04.25 Full Paper Submission 16.05.25 Doctoral Consortium Submission For more detailed info on each call, please refer to: Call for Papers (Long, Short, Extended Abstracts): <https://ki2025.gi.de/calls/call-for-papers> Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions: <https://ki2025.gi.de/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium-contributions> Submissions are possible via EasyChair: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2025> We are very much looking forward to your contributions and the scientific exchange! Last, but not least, we would like to announce our excellent keynote speakers for KI2025: Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Federal Data Protection Officer, Germany Rineke Verbrugge, U Groningen, Netherlands Barbara Hammer, U Bielefeld, Germany Check out also for the KI workshop and tutorial program: <https://ki2025.gi.de/program/workshops-and-tutorials> Best regards Program Chairs Tanya Braun (Uni Münster) Benjamin Paaßen (Uni Bielefeld) Frieder Stolzenburg (HS Harz) Tutorial/Workshop Chairs Magda Gregorova (TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt) Philipp Väth (TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt) Tamara Bergerhoff (TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt) Doctoral Consortium Chair Gesina Schwalbe (Uni Lübeck)

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