The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society recognizes and congratulates the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS and the robotics and automation community. They will be honored during an award ceremony, which will be held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2025) in May. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients!
RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation
Frank Chongwoo Park
“For leadership in society restructuring and new publications initiatives, and contributions to geometric methods in robotics.”
Allison Okamura
“For foundational research in haptics, medical robotics, and robot design, as well as service to the Robotics and Automation Society.”
RAS Pioneer Award
Antonio Bicchi
“For pioneering fundamental contributions to artificial hands, haptics, and human-robot collaboration, and for their applications to robotics and prosthetics.”
Wolfram Burgard
“For pioneering contributions to probabilistic state estimation, perception, and learning in robotics.”
IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Paolo Fiorini
“For his service and contributions to RAS committees, conferences, and educational activities.”
Peter Ian Corke
“For service to the robotics community through education on and dissemination of knowledge.”
Todd Murphey
“For his exemplary leadership as Vice President of Publications Activities in the launching of two new RAS journals.”
Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Wenzhen Yuan
“For innovative contributions to high-resolution robotic tactile sensing.”
Shuran Song
“For contributions to scalable robot learning and their real-world applications.”
Abhishek Gupta
“For pioneering contributions to real-world robotic reinforcement learning.”
Yuke Zhu
“For groundbreaking contributions to robot learning and embodied artificial intelligence, and broadly used open-source software platforms for robot learning.”
Changliu Liu
“For significant advancements in intelligent robot control and learning that enables safe and efficient human-robot collaborations.”
Early Government or Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Daniel Leidner
“For outstanding contributions to the advancement of AI-assisted telerobotics and its transformative impact on space exploration and societal needs.”
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation
Apptronik
Apollo is an AI-powered, humanoid robot and the first commercial humanoid designed for friendly interaction, mass manufacturability, performance, and safety.
Rugged Robotics
Rugged Robotics transforms construction with autonomous robots, automating field layout with precision and efficiency, paving the way for future innovation
Ambi Robotics
AmbiSort A-Series, AI-Powered Robotic Sorting
IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award
Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics
RAS Student Branch Chapter of the Year Award
North South University, RAS Student Branch Chapter – Bangladesh
Ecole Nationale D’Ingenieurs De Tunis, RAS Student Branch Chapter – Tunisia
Federal University of Campina Grande, RAS Student Branch Chapter – Brazil
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award
Anastasios I. Mourikis and Stergios I. Roumeliotis
A Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation
Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
