ICRA 2026

Vienna, Austria – 1st-5th June 2026

Photo: Part of the members of the University of Edinburgh participating in the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) in Vienna, Austria.

Multiple members of the Centre, together with other members of the University of Edinburgh, have participated in the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, which happened in Vienna, Austria

The highlights of the Centre’s contributions include:

• R-AL article “Distributional Treatment of Real2Sim2Real for Object-Centric Agent Adaptation in Vision-Driven DLO Manipulation” by Georgios Kamaras and Subramanian Ramamoorthy presented at the conference; doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3581744;
• Conference proceedings paper “ROOM: A Physics-Based Continuum Robot Simulator for Photorealistic Medical Datasets Generation” by  Salvatore Esposito, Matías Mattamala, Daniel Rebain, Francis Xiatian Zhang, Kevin Dhaliwal, Mohsen Khadem, and Subramanian Ramamoorthy; preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.13177;
  
• Poster “Contact-Aware Probabilistic Reconstruction for Contact-Rich Manipulation,” by  Aditya Kamireddypalli, Joao Moura, Russell Buchanan, Matias Mattamala, Sethu Vijayakumar, and Subramanian Ramamoorthy,  at the Workshop on the Path Towards Generalizable Contact-Rich Robotics: Control and Representation;
• Matías Mattamala’s organisation of the 1st Workshop on Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation. URL: https://active-perception-workshop.github.io/.