Posts tagged as “Social Robot Navigation”

The final session of the Advances in Social Robot Navigation Workshop at ICRA 2025 is happening NOW. It's been a great conference so far, with lots of great talks and debate ...

Even though there's no-one in the row in front of me, we've had 50-60 people in person or online all day:

More on the workshop later ... back to taking notes now!

-the Centaur

Still at ICRA, and the Advances in Social Robot Navigation workshop is TOMORROW! Which I suppose means that it is good that I found the room. :-)

https://socialnav2025.pages.dev

Lots of great social navigation work this conference ... we are really seeing some advances. Even in the proliferation of form factors, some of which you can see above, such as the base with humanoid, looks like it will help social robotics. More and cheaper robots - and more varied form factors - should make it easier to find the right robot for the job.

Onward! Three or four more sessions of talks, and then it's the workshop ...

-the Centaur

Pictured: The room our workshop will be held in, and two robots "shaking hands".

SO! I'm at ICRA, the big robotics conference (okay, okay, ONE of the big robotics conferences, the others being IROS and RSS) and I would be remiss if I didn't point out that our workshop, "Advances in Social Robot Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond" will be held this Friday, May 23rd!

Building on our successful series of workshops at ICRA'22, IROS'23, and RSS'24, as well as the Social Navigation Symposium, the AISRN workshop aims to investigate key aspects that make robot navigation more acceptable, legible, and social. It's been a great year for social navigation at ICRA; come join us!

https://socialnav2025.pages.dev

-the Centaur

Pictured: One of the performances at the "Arts and Robotics" show at ICRA, which ... I guess is social?