ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop

2nd Unconventional Robots:
Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems
IEEE ICRA 2025 Full-Day Workshop #ICRA2025

May 19, 2025 or May 23,2025

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Dr. Kaushik Jayaram is an associate professor at Imperial College London. His research combines biology and robotics to uncover principles of intelligence that make animals successful at locomotion in natural environments.
https://t.co/JGcUrNocoZ

Don't miss his talk on June 5th!

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Dr. Kawaharazuka is a junior associate professor at the University of Tokyo . He designs and creates humanoid, tendon driven robots develops learning control systems to move them.
https://t.co/qn494OpvOb

Don't miss his talk on June 5th!
More info: https://t.co/UOXfeyHmLn

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Introducing Perla Maiolino:
Dr. Maiolino is a professor at Oxford. Her work focuses on tactile sensors and their implementation into soft robots for sensory-motor coordination.
https://t.co/8g4FPlALHT

Don't miss her talk on June 5th!
More info: https://t.co/UOXfeyHmLn

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Introducing Allison Okamura, one of the attending speakers:
Dr. Okamura is a professor at Stanford. Her work includes teleoperation, haptic systems, and robot manipulation.
https://t.co/tExjo43S3p

Don't miss her talk on June 5th!
More info: https://t.co/UOXfeyHmLn

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Introducing Kyu-Jin Cho, one of the attending speakers:
He is a the director of the Soft Robot Research Center and a professor at SNU. His work includes transformable wheels, bioinspired water strider robots, and passive exosuits.
See more of his work here https://t.co/tExjo43S3p

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

The date is approaching! Join us at the Unconventional Robots workshop on June 5th in Vienna. Stay tuned for speaker information.
https://t.co/wi4sEW68jF

Attending ICRA? Submit your abstracts here!
https://t.co/uLt4IRNHgS

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

What inspires robot design? Between the standard and the obscure lies a realm of practical, yet unconventional morphologies.
The Unconventional Robotics Workshop is back for 2026! 🤖
https://t.co/UOXfeyHmLn
Attending ICRA? Submit your abstracts here!
https://t.co/q82XUxZ8kL

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Unconventional robots enable new capabilities—soft robots for human interaction, modular robots for industry, and exploratory robots for extreme environments.
Let’s discuss novel mechanisms & control strategies at #ICRA2025! #UnconventionalRobotsWorkshop

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Meet Our Amazing Workshop Speakers at #ICRA2025 

We're bringing together top researchers in robotics, including:

✅ Dr. Elizabeth Farrell Helbling
✅ Dr. Mike Tolley
✅ Dr. Aimy Wissa & more!

#UnconventionalRobotsWorkshop

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Meet Our Amazing Workshop Speakers at ICRA 2025!

We're bringing together top researchers in robotics, including:
✅ Dr. Radhika Nagpal
✅ Dr. Josie Hughes
✅ Dr. Kris Dorsey
✅ Dr. Yong-Lae Park 
✅ Dr. Cynthia Sung & more!
Join us at #ICRA2025 for an inspiring discussion!

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

#UnconventionalRobotsWorkshop

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

EARLY DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 03/21🤖���
We invite 2-page extended abstracts on topics like:
🔹Novel system design
🔹Soft robotics & underactuation
🔹Bioinspired mechanisms
🔹Simulation & control of unconventional robots

🗓️ Submit now: https://t.co/kdHd4CCfq7

#ICRA2025

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Call for Abstracts – Unconventional Robots Workshop at ICRA 2025! 📢
We invite 2-page extended abstracts on topics like:
🔹Underactuation
🔹Soft robotics
🔹Bioinspiration
🔹Simulation/control
🔹Haptics
🗓️ Submit now: https://t.co/kdHd4CCNfF #ICRA2025 #UnconventionalRobotsWorkshop

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

What happens when standard robot morphologies aren't enough? 🤖 Join us at #ICRA2025 and online for the Unconventional Robots Workshop, where we rethink robot design for complex and unstructured environments.
📅 Stay tuned for details! #Robotics #UnconventionalRobots

[Dennis Hong @DennisHongRobot]

Workshop day!
SCALER-B and EEWOC from RoMeLa at the “Unconventional Robots: Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems” workshop!

That was fun!
Great work, guys! 😙🤗
@unconv_robots @ieee_ras_icra

#IRA2024 #workshop #RoMeLa #robots #SCALER #EEWOC

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

Thank you everyone for coming to our workshop! It’s amazing to see so many unconventional robots and the effort you put into them! Hope to see you at future conferences 🤖

@ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2024

[Alexander Schperberg @ASchperberg]

We will show SCALER-B at the Unconventional Robots: Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems workshop! Come check out our robot and posters at the afternoon session. ⁦@unconv_robots⁩ @ieee_ras_icra⁩

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

We are excited to have Dr. Margaret Coad from @AeroMechND to speak at our workshop, on "Soft Everting Vine-Inspired Robots: Lessons from the Field and the Lab"! Details: https://t.co/GQDo5IMHUI

@ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2024

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

We are excited to have Dr. Zac Manchester @zacinaction from @CMU_Robotics to speak at our workshop, on "Engineering the World’s Smallest Spacecraft"! Details: https://t.co/KiIxREsryZ
Zac promised to bring some toys. Come and say hi!

@ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2024

[ICRA 2025 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop @unconv_robots]

We are excited to have Dr. Hannah Stuart from
@BerkeleyME to speak at our workshop, on "Designing Physically Robust Soft Grippers with Tactile Sensing"! Details: https://t.co/fHuViPZH0t

@ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2024