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Call for Papers – Frontiers in Robotics and AI
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Dear RoboCup Community, we are excited to invite you to submit to our upcoming Research Topic on **Leveraging Foundation Models for Interactive and Adaptive Robot Policy Learning** in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (FRAI) – a leading journal in the field of Robotics and AI. This topic is especially interesting for those among you that work in fields related to human-robot interaction, such as the @Home or Industrial Leagues. *Website* https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/71044/leveraging-foundation-mod… If you are interested in submitting, please klick "Participate in this topic" on the website and we will make sure to keep you updated and remind you to submit your research summary in time. *Description* This Research Topic aims to investigate the transformative potential of foundation models (FMs) for effective and adaptive robot-policy learning. We seek to highlight cutting-edge research and innovative applications of these models, showcasing novel adaptation algorithms and human-robot interaction and collaboration strategies. Our focus is on how robots, empowered by off-the-shelf and/or domain-adapted foundation models, can perceive, reason, interact, and make intelligent decisions in open-world domains. By enabling effective and generalizable perception, reasoning, and multi-turn human-robot interactions, we aim to allow robots to acquire knowledge actively from external environments and humans in a targeted manner, interpret and reason about information in relation to its multi-modal context, facilitating new policy adaptation, refining existing policies, and enhancing its task and motion planning ability. *Topics of Interest* We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research, review articles, case studies, and technical notes that explore, but are NOT limited to, the following areas: - Applications of off-the-shelf Foundation Models for Robot Policy Learning - Embodied Multi-modal Vision and Language models - Efficient Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models for Policy Learning - Interactive Robot Policy Learning and Grounding - Human-robot Collaboration for Policy Learning - Policy Learning with Few-shot Demonstrations - Data Augmentation using Foundation Models - Interactive Reasoning and Task Planning with Foundation Models - Integrated Planning and Foundation Models - Applications and Fine-tuning of Foundation Models for Task and Motion Planning - Learning Safe Policy through Human-Robot Interaction - Trustworthy AI and AI Safety - In-context Learning (ICL) for Decision-Making - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Agents - Interactive Open-Vocabulary Robot Navigation and Manipulation - Policy Correction and Adaption through Human-robot Interaction - Policy Evaluation using Foundation Models - Applications and Fine-tuning of Foundation Models for Spoken Dialogue - Detecting and Adapting to Novelty in Open-world Environments *Important Dates* Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline: 30 September 2025 Manuscript Submission Deadline: 19 December 2025 *Submission* We are accepting the following article types: - Brief Research Report - Data Report - Editorial - General Commentary - Hypothesis and Theory - Methods - Mini Review - Opinion - Original Research - Perspective - Policy and Practice Reviews - Review - Systematic Review - Technology and Code *Topic Editors* - Sahisnu Mazumder, Javier Felip Leon and Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Intel Labs, USA) - Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) - Peng Hu and Hao Wang (Sichuan University, China) - Xin Yang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China) - Hanbo Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

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meetings][CFP] Extended Deadline for participation at the software @HOME competion of the International Conference of Social Robotics in Naples 2025
by alexarossi＠gmail.com 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

Dear everyone, The submission's deadline for the ICSR competitions has been extended! The International Conference of Social Robotics 2025 will be held in Naples, Italy on 10-12 September. Below you can find the information and website for the conference and competition. Do not hesitate to get in touch if you need further information. best regards Alessandra See below the new updated CFP: Robot Software and Design Competition International Conference of Social Robotics - ICSR 10-12 September, Naples, Italy Competitions full description https://icsr2025.eu/competition/ Submission deadline 15th August 2025 Submission competition(a)icsr2025.eu The design and development of different types of robots, along with their intelligence and behaviours, have been steadily advancing. However, the robotics industry is entering new challenges due to the emergence of innovative and intelligent robots designed for a wide range of applications. In particular, we are increasingly seeing the need for embodied AI agents that are able to engage, support and assist people with different needs, preferences and expectations across various aspects of life. To this extent, we want to invite students, young researchers and more experienced groups to participate in robot software and design competitions that will match today’s increasing demands. There are three categories: * Robot design Competition, where teams of students, young researchers can show their design innovative ideas * @HOME Competition, where teams of young and more experienced researchers can apply advanced techniques for solving real-world problems in a competition format. * @HOME Hackathon, where teams of students and young researchers can develop social behaviours for HRI in a hackathon format. The @HOME Competition will be organised in two days: 1. A set-up day on 10/09 will serve for teams to test and adjust their solutions 2. A competition day on 11/09 where teams will show their robotic solutions. The Robot design Competition will take place on the last day - 12th September 2025. The Hackathon will be organised in two days: 1. A Workshop on 10/09 morning for illustrating the basic functionalities of the robot platforms and how to program them 2. Guided development on 10/09 afternoon with instructors following the teams in the development of some baseline tasks 3. Competition day on 11/09, where teams will develop their solutions and then show them for evaluation. For each category, we will select the winners. The winners of the challenges will be announced during the Closing Ceremony on September the 12th, 2025. Submissions Each submission should have a (maximum) 2-page summary. The template is flexible; however, it should include a concise abstract/synopsis of a maximum of 50 words, and enough details to judge the technical novelty of the proposed solution and/or innovative applications of robots. A single link of related video can be included. Video link is optional, and the maximum duration of the video should be 3 minutes. Please remember that it is not a scientific publication, but the description of a robotics innovation with potential to be developed as a project. Competition chairs, with the help from experts and reviewers, will select the finalists. Each finalist is supposed to register and present their entry at a dedicated session in the conference, which will be further evaluated by the Jury of peers. Email your submission to competition(a)icsr2025.eu <mailto:competition@icsr2025.eu>with the subject line including the competition you intend to participate into: * [ICSR 2025 Robot Design Competition] * [ICSR 2025 @HOME Competition] * [ICSR 2025 @HOME Hackathon] -- Alessandra Rossi, PhD Assistant Professor Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies - D.I.E.T.I. University of Naples Federico II Via Claudio, 21, 80125 - Naples, Italy w-page:https://alessandrarossi.net e-mail address:alessandra.rossi@unina.it e-mail address:a.rossi@herts.ac.uk X: @alhandra81

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Re-Imagining RoboCup
by Ubbo Visser 20 Jul '25

20 Jul '25

Dear RoboCuppers, RoboCup has been a uniquely enduring and inspiring force in robotics and AI since its inception. For almost three decades, it has grown through the self-motivation, passion, and remarkable  dedication of you, its participants. This spirit has made RoboCup the world’s largest and most influential robotics competition. Today, we stand at a pivotal moment. The field of robotics and AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The emergence of a new generation of robots, AI methods, and technologies is a unique  historical opportunity. RoboCup takes this opportunity to continue to lead. Therefore, we enact changes to the RoboCup international competitions, which is our window to the world. We unite all the advancements from all soccer leagues into one united umbrella focused on humanoid robot soccer. We push the state of the art in robotics and AI by introducing  humanoid robots for general-purpose applications, including the @home, work, and rescue leagues. Let’s write the next chapter of RoboCup together! On behalf of The RoboCup Board of Trustees, Ubbo Visser (President of The RoboCup Federation) ============================ Link to news on robocup.org <https://robocup.org/news/181> Details of Changes for the International RoboCup competition  Note: Existing leagues can continue at super-regionals, opens, and community-driven events. 1. Standard Platform League and Humanoid KidSize League  The SPL and Humanoid League KidSize divisions begin an immediate merger process aiming to form a unified league by 2026 (name to be decided). Teams from across all soccer leagues will be invited to join and shape this process.  2. Small Size League, Middle Size League, and Soccer Simulation Leagues  2027 will be the final year of the international competition for the SSL, MSL, and the soccer simulation leagues, as long as we have sufficient participation. We look forward to transitioning all the scientific advancements from these leagues to humanoid robot soccer.  We welcome proposals from the community to re-imagine how these leagues may  contribute as a bridge to encourage participants from the Junior leagues to continue on with the Major leagues.  3. RoboCupRescue Simulation League The 2025 competition is the final year for RoboCupRescue Simulation as an independent league at the International event. Teams are encouraged to engage with the Rescue Robot League to explore merger concepts and combined evaluation frameworks.  4. RoboCup@Home A single, unified RoboCup@Home league takes effect immediately. The 2025 competition is the last to feature two separate sub-leagues.  5. RoboCupIndustrial The @Work and Logistics sub-leagues will create a new Smart Manufacturing League (SML), merging for the 2026 and 2027 competitions to better address emerging autonomous production and logistics challenges.

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RoboCup Official Livestream - We are live for competition day 2
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Good morning RoboCuppers! Here are the live streams to the second competition day here in Salvador: RoboCup Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/robocupofficial RoboCup Brasil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D98OVM1VA Here is the overview what we are streaming today: 10:00 - 10:10 Opening & Recap of Day 1 10:10 - 10:30 Junior Rescue Sim 10:30 - 11:00: Junior Rescue & Soccer 11:00 - 11:30: @Work 11:30 - 12:00: Rescue Robot BREAK 13:00 - 13:30: SPL 13:30 - 14:00: Logistics (SPL on Standby) 14:00 - 14:30: Humanoid KidSize 14:30 - 14:50: RMRC 14:50 - 15:20: OnStage 15:20 - 16:00 Sim 2D / Sim 3D 16:00 - 16:30 SSL 16:30 - 17:00 @work (SSL on Standby) 17:00 - 17:30 MathWorks ARM 17:30 - 18:00 @Home Again, please go ahead an share the links and let's make RoboCup known even better on an international stage! Cheers Maike

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[RoboCup 2025] Regional Committee Meeting on Friday, July 18, 2025 1.30-3.30 pm
by Ferrein, Alexander Antoine 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Dear RoboCup Regional Committee Chairs, dear RoboCupers, The Regional Committee Meeting will take place tomorrow, Friday, July 18, 2025, 1.30-3.30 pm in Room 5 on the first floor of the venue. All Regional Committee Chairs/representatives who are in Salvador please join us there as the Trustee Election will also take place. For those Regional Committee representatives, who are not here, please join us online using the following Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83150025321 Meeting-ID: 831 5002 5321 If you plan to attend, please contact me via email to receive the key code. I want to remind all regional committee members who have not yet done so to submit their Regional Committee report. The link to the template is this: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/e4ztPBn48E4y7eD Please submit your presentation with the file name RoboCupRegionalCommittee-YourRegion.pptx by uploading it to the following folder until July 13, 2025: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/c3qiFqN4Cxw5jGX Please let me know, if there are problems with the upload. Many of you are already represented by regional committees. You can find the list of regional committees here: https://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting. If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to get together with any other participants from your country to form a Regional Committee. The procedure for forming Regional Committees is included at the bottom of this message. Please let me know if you or someone else from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting. Best Regards, Maike & Alexander on behalf of the RCF President and the Trustees -- Prof. Dr. Alexander Ferrein Mobile Autonomous Systems & Cognitive Robotics Institute Robotics and Foundations of Computer Science FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Eupener Strasse 70 | 52066 Aachen | Germany T: +49 241 6009 51904 | F: +49 241 6009 52190 E: ferrein(a)fh-aachen.de | W: www.ferrein.fh-aachen.de Speaker Major Competitions of the RoboCup German Regional Committee W: www.robocup.de Former Vice-Chair of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science A Network of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation W: www.agnes-h.org RoboCup Regional Committees =========================== A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee.” The purposes of these committees are to 1) Promote RoboCup within your region. 2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional committee participation, but must be approved by the board of trustees. For each such local event and open, regional committees may at some time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into effect). The regional committee is also expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup Trustees to let us know: 1) The members and affiliations of the committee. 2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). 3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/(http://… for some examples). The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee).

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RoboCup Official Livestream - Inviting the world to join us in Salvador today!
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Good morning RoboCuppers! Today is the first day of the competition and we will stream it live! Here are the official links to our stream: YouTube Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4LYY8wjBk RoboCup Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/robocupofficial It's the same stream on both channels, so you can pick whichever platform you like best. We have a super exciting lineup for you today, switching between the different RoboCup leagues so you get an insight into all the exciting events going on! We are starting the stream at 10 am local time in Salvador. Share the link with your team, University, online following, friends & family - and let's make this online stream a huge success. Cheers Maike

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[meetings] ASIMOV Workshop at ICSR 2025
by Salvatore Anzalone 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT *** [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ****************************************************** Adaptive Social Interaction based on user’s Mental mOdels and behaVior in HRI ASIMOV 2025 Naples (Italy), September 10, 2025 Held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Social Robotics https://sites.google.com/view/asimov2025 ****************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------ - Deadline for Paper Submission: July 20th, 2025 - Paper Acceptance Notification: July 30th, 2025 - Camera Ready Paper: August 11th, 2025 - Main Conference Date: September 10th–12th, 2025 - Workshop Date: September 10th, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------ AIM AND SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------ The ability to understand and adapt to people’s mental models is a key objective for enabling natural, efficient, and successful human-robot interaction (HRI), in particular in human-centered scenarios where robots are expected to meet people’s social conventions. Theory of mind and mental models are largely investigated in human-computer interactions, however, it is still unclear what level of others’ mental states a robot should be aware of in order to communicate with people in a transparent and socially acceptable way. The ASIMOV workshop will constitute a unique opportunity to gather roboticists, psychologists, and philosophers and computer scientists to discuss a variety of current and new approaches aiming at endowing social robots with learning abilities, enhancing cognitive and social abilities based on mutual understanding. SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT The ASIMOV Workshop investigates how social robots can engage in meaningful, ethically aware, and cognitively grounded interactions with humans, particularly in sensitive contexts such as education, healthcare, and assistive scenarios. Despite the promise of social robots in such domains, users often remain cautious about employing them due to ethical, psychological, and safety concerns as well as a lack of trust in such technologies. Addressing these acceptability challenges requires considering not only individual psychological and behavioral factors, but also emergent group dynamics in the design of social interactions, integrating insights from ethics, philosophy of mind, and moral psychology. Central to this exploration is the question of how robots can be designed and behave to respect and respond to human values, expectations, and vulnerabilities. To achieve natural and effective human-robot interaction (HRI), robots must be endowed with learning and real-time adaptation abilities to perceive and interpret users’ mental states, navigate group dynamics in teamwork scenarios, while explicitly taking into account social and ethical rules. Beyond functional alignment, we seek to understand how socio-cognitive architectures, adaptive behaviors, and affective signals can support morally appropriate engagement—avoiding manipulation, misunderstanding, or dehumanization. This requires not only technical innovation, but also a reflective framework that integrates perspectives from ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind. Recent research shows that these capabilities are essential to bridge the gap between user expectations and the robot’s actual behavior, enhancing mutual understanding, engagement, and interaction efficiency. Robots' acceptability increases when they can understand and meet people'sexpectations during HRI. By equipping robots with moral, social and cognitive skills, which may be integrated through AI supports, they can convey contextually appropriate affective and social signals in an intelligent and readable way. From the mutual comprehension of mental states, an effective HRI can emerge, allowing human partners to suspend disbelief and fostering trust, partnership, and acceptability. OBJECTIVES The ASIMOV Workshop brings together interdisciplinary experts in robotics, AI, cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy to explore the design of socially assistive robots that are cognitively competent in modeling both individual mental states and complex group dynamics, while being ethically informed and norm-aware. Focusing on sensitive domains such as education, healthcare, and assistive technologies, the workshop emphasizes integrating socio-cognitive architectures with normative frameworks to ensure robots respect human values, autonomy, and dignity. Key topics include individual and multi-user interaction modeling, moral agency, and mechanisms for real-time ethical adaptation, all aimed at fostering trustworthy, human-centered human-robot interaction grounded in moral psychology and philosophy of mind. TARGET AUDIENCE We aim to bring together a diverse audience from the fields of social and assistive robotics, cognitive and behavioral robotics, and HRI. The workshop will serve as a platform for exchanging ideas, discussing innovative concepts, and addressing unresolved issues in ongoing research. We encourage the participation of PhD students and young researchers working on user modeling, HRI and control interfaces, machine learning, and ethical aspects of human-machine interaction, among others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Mental models in HRI Human-aware perception-action loop Emotion and intention recognition Affective and ethical adaptation Groups, teams and emergent states Group dynamics and fairness Multi-user collaborative robots Empathy and Theory of Mind in Robotics Mutual affective understanding Real-time monitoring of behavior and mental states Detection of non-verbal behavioral cues Multimodality in human-robot interaction Autonomy and responsibility Robots with personality Online adaptive behavior Acceptability and personalization Physiological monitoring and biofeedback systems BCI (brain-computer interfaces)-enabled adaptive interaction Objective metrics and scales for evaluation of HRI Human partnership and trust in HRI Explainable AI in HRI Security and safety in HRI Robot ethics and moral philosophy Value-sensitive design Assistive and educational robotics Human dignity and ethics of care in HRI ------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, IT Prof. Giovanna Varni, University of Trento, Trento, IT ------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------------------------ We welcome prospective participants to submit either full papers (up to 6 pages) or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages). Such contributions, focusing on the topics of the workshop, will be peer reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. Papers can be on research that the authors would like to discuss during the workshop, especially encouraging papers on new ideas or research that the authors plan to conduct. Possible topics of the submissions will cover a wide view of the state of the art. Workshop papers must clearly indicate that they are part of ASIMOV workshop. All material collected during the Workshop: video, slides, papers, etc. upon approval of the authors, will be made available on the workshop website. Selected papers will be invited to present extended versions of their work for a new book series on Robotics for Healthcare by Elsevier. It is highly recommended to use the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available on the conference website (https://icsr2025.eu/call-for-papers/#regular-paper). LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website. Each paper will receive two reviews. Accepted papers require that at least one of the authors register for the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by two reviewers. The abstracts of the accepted papers will appear on the workshop website. Authors are requested to submit a PDF copy to sanzalone (at) univ-paris8.fr. ------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------ Salvatore M. Anzalone Université Paris 8, France Giuseppe Palestra University of Bari, Italy Carlotta Bettencourt The Sherkow Center for Child Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder, USA Elena Ricci Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT Alberto Pirni Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT Maryam Alimardani Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mariacarla Staffa University of Naples Parthenope, Italy This workshop is sponsored and partially founded by: - RESTART - Italian National Project - Robot Enhanced Social Abilities based on Theory of Mind for Acceptance of Robot in Assistive Treatments, funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research —MIUR (D.D. no.861) (RESTART) - “TRust in Technology: How to Assess and Improve RoboT-User Interaction in Elderly Care Integrating EtHical, Technical and Social Variables” project, funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) (CUP B83C22004800006) - PEPR O2R "Robotique Organique" AS3 (ANR-22-EXOD-007) - France 2030 program

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[RoboCup 2025] Regional Committee Meeting on Friday, July 18, 2025 1.30-3.30 pm
by Ferrein, Alexander Antoine 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Dear RoboCup participants, We are writing to let you know that, like last year, we will have a Regional Committee Assembly this year in Salvador. The meeting will be on Friday, July 18, 2025, 1.30-3.30 pm. I will write again to let you know once the details, including location, are confirmed. Many of you are already represented by regional committees. You can find the list of regional committees here: https://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting. If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to get together with any other participants from your country to form a Regional Committee. The procedure for forming Regional Committees is included at the bottom of this message. Please let me know if you or someone else from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting. Best Regards, Maike & Alexander on behalf of the RCF President and the Trustees -- Prof. Dr. Alexander Ferrein Mobile Autonomous Systems & Cognitive Robotics Institute Robotics and Foundations of Computer Science FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Eupener Strasse 70 | 52066 Aachen | Germany T: +49 241 6009 51904 | F: +49 241 6009 52190 E: ferrein(a)fh-aachen.de | W: www.ferrein.fh-aachen.de Speaker Major Competitions of the RoboCup German Regional Committee W: www.robocup.de Former Vice-Chair of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science A Network of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation W: www.agnes-h.org RoboCup Regional Committees =========================== A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee.” The purposes of these committees are to 1) Promote RoboCup within your region. 2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional committee participation, but must be approved by the board of trustees. For each such local event and open, regional committees may at some time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into effect). The regional committee is also expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup Trustees to let us know: 1) The members and affiliations of the committee. 2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). 3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/(http://… for some examples). The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee).

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[meetings][CFP][RO-MAN 2025] Extended deadline - TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop
by Alessandra Rossi 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that due to high request, we decided to extend the deadline for submissions for our workshop, "TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction." The workshop is the joint work of SCRITA and RTSS workshops. The TRUST workshop will be held as a full-day event at ROMAN 2025 on August 29, 2025, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Please find below the call for paper! Do not hesitate to contact us for more info. We look forward to seeing you in Eindhoven! best regards Alessandra on behalf of the SCRITA and RTSS workshops organisers Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 18 July 2025, Anywhere on Earth Notification of Acceptance: 25 July 2025 Camera-ready submission: 08 August 2025, Anywhere on Earth Workshop website: https://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2025/ Invited speakers - Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark - Roy Lindelauf, Tilburg University - Philip Brey, University of Twente - Minoru Asada, Osaka University & International Professional University of Technology in Osaka, Japan. Call for contributions and submission format We invite authors to submit position papers and four-page papers: - We invite authors to submit four pages long (excluding references), discussing novel works in the scope of the workshop. - We invite authors to submit position papers, 2 to 4 pages long (excluding references), discussing their prior experience and new developments in the scope of the workshop to feed into the group and the following panel discussions. We encourage the authors to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. All accepted papers will have short oral presentations. Submission Guidelines Authors should prepare papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>. Please submit your paper(s) to: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scritartss2025 Aim and scope The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives. The RTSS component addresses a critical challenge in the development of future human-robot symbiotic societies: enabling robots to form trustworthy interactions with both human and robotic partners. While trust from the human perspective has been extensively studied, RTSS emphasizes the need to explore how autonomous agents assess and establish trust in heterogeneous peers. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and designing mechanisms for robot trust, with the aim of advancing technological, social, and ethical aspects of symbiotic interaction. On the other hand, SCRITA focuses on people’s trust and acceptance of robots in a wide range of social and collaborative contexts. Previous SCRITA workshops have highlighted progress in short-term and controlled interaction studies but also emphasized the need for robust, unambiguous metrics for evaluating human trust in more realistic and dynamic environments. SCRITA promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue to identify key factors affecting trust and to develop novel methodologies to measure and foster trust in long-term human-robot relationships. The TRUST workshop thus provides a unique forum for synthesizing these perspectives, bringing together researchers from robotics, psychology, AI, and HRI to explore how trust can be modelled, measured, and maintained in complex, real-world interactions. It aims to generate novel insights and guidelines for designing trustworthy robotic systems capable of adapting to and thriving in diverse human environments. Audience and topics: The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user profiling. In particular, we aim to integrate expertise from roboticists with psychologists' and sociologists' insights and experiences to foster a multidisciplinary and human-focused discussion that can capture the multi-faceted nature of trust and acceptance. We will foster the exchange of views on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions for research. Organizers - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy - Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Ali Fallahi, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Murat Kirtay, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands - Marie Postma, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands - Erhan Oztop, Osaka University Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISReC), Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka, Japan; Ozyegin University, Computer Science Department, Istanbul, Turkey

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Deadline Extension - Call for Papers - 13th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025)
by Iman Awaad 28 Jun '25

28 Jun '25

Apologies for multiple copies DEADLINE EXTENSION *** after several requests, the new submission deadline is now the 11th of July 2025 *** International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2025 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025) https://icaps25.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/planrob/ Melbourne, Australia November 10-11, 2025 *Description* AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviours. Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems. *Topics of interest* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction, - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots, - planning domain representations for robotics applications, - optimising behaviour in large scale automated or semi-automated systems, - integrated planning and execution in robot architectures, - learning methods for robot planning and scheduling, - P&S methods for optimisation and adaptation in robotics, - mission, path, and motion planning for robots, - formal methods for robot planning and control, - challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics, - open problems for P&S in robotics, - coordination of multi-robot teams, - benchmark planning domains for robots, - adversarial action planning in competitive robot domains, - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems. *Important Dates* Paper submission (extended): July 11, 2025 (was June 30, 2025) Notification (extended): August 1, 2025 (was July 20, 2025) Workshop: November 10-11, 2025 (tbd) *Submission* There are two types of submissions: - short position papers (four pages) - regular papers (up to 10 pages) Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2025 papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at:http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswsplanrob25). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2025) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website. The organisers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. *Organizing Committee* Zlatan Ajanović, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands zlatan.ajanovic(a)ml.rwth-aachen.de Iman Awaad, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy alberto.finzi(a)unina.it AndreA Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy andrea.orlandini(a)istc.cnr.it *Program Committee (To Be Completed)* - Zlatan Ajanovic, TU Delft - Iman Awaad, Bonn Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences - Roman Barták, Charles University - Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University - Riccardo Caccavale, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II - Magí Dalmau Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR - National Research Council of Italy - Alberto Finzi, Universita' di Napoli Federico II - Nick Hawes, University of Oxford - Jane Jean Kiam, Universität der Bundeswehr München - Senka Krivic, University of Sarajevo - Oscar Lima, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI - Tim Niemueller, Intrinsic Innovation GmbH - AndreA Orlandini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University - Sebastian Stock, German Research Center for Artificial Intellegence, DFKI - Elisa Tosello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Alessandro Umbrico, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Pulkit Verma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Iman Awaad Researcher, Autonomous Systems Group Assistant director & Study advisor, Master's Program in Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/inf/studienangebot/master/autonomous-systems Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/a2s Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences | Department of Computer Science Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 2241 865-295 www.h-brs.de/en/inf/iman-awaad Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) Friedrich Hirzebruch-Allee 5, 53115 Bonn, Germany www.b-it-center.de

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