What’s coming up at #IROS2025?
The IROS 2025 conference in Hangzhou will showcase breakthroughs in humanoid robots, embodied AI, and soft robotics, featuring a high-stakes debate on the future of the human workforce.
The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) will be held from 19-25 October in Hangzhou, China. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a debate.
Plenary talks
There are three plenary talks on the programme this year, with one per day on Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, and Thursday 23 October.
Marco Hutter – The New Era of Mobility: Humanoids and Quadrupeds Enter the Real World Hyoun Jin Kim – Autonomous Aerial Manipulation: Toward Physically Intelligent Robots in Flight Song-Chun Zhu – TongBrain: Bridging Physical Robots and AGI Agents
Keynote talks
The keynotes this year fall under eleven umbrella topics:
- Rehabilitation & Physically Assistive Systems
- Bio-inspired Robotics
- Soft Robotics
- Al and Robot Learning
- Perception and Sensors
- Human Robot Interaction
- Embodied Intelligence
- Medical Robots
- Field Robotics
- Humanoid Robot Systems
- Mechanisms and Controls
Debate
On Wednesday, a debate will be held on the following topic: “Humanoids Will Soon Replace Most Human Workers: True or False?” The participants will be: XingXing Wang (Unitree Robotics), Jun-Oh Ho (Samsung and Rainbow Robotics), Hong Qiao (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Andra Keay, (Silicon Valley Robotics), Yu Sun (EiC, IEEE Trans on Automation Science and Engineering), Tamim Asfour (Professor of Humanoid Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley, Moderator).
Tutorials & Workshops
There are three tutorials planned and 83 workshops to choose from this year, taking place on Monday 20 and Friday 24 October.
Source: Robohub
