On 16 May 2024, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, RAS and ICRA honored recipients and finalists for RAS and ICRA Awards. Check out the full list of honorees, including finalists, here; RAS extends its hearty congratulations to all those honored, and we thank everyone who helped organize this wonderful celebration.
Note also that the nominations deadline for 2024 RAS Awards is fast approaching! Details for each award, including eligibility and nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients, may be found here. The deadline is midnight EDT 1 September 2024.
Below is the list of ICRA Award winners.
IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award — 2 WINNERS
Goal Masked Diffusion Policies for Unified Navigation and Exploration
Authors: Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop, and Sergey Levine
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X
Authors: Abby O’Neill, Abdul Rehman, Abhiram Maddukuri, Abhishek Gupta, Abhishek Padalkar, Abraham Lee, Acorn Pooley, Agrim Gupta, Ajay Mandlekar, Ajinkya Jain, Albert Tung, Alex Bewley, Alex Herzog, Alex Irpan, Alexander Khazatsky, Anant Rai, Anchit Gupta, Andrew Wang, Anikait Singh, Animesh Garg, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Annie Xie, Anthony Brohan, Antonin Raffin, Archit Sharma, Arefeh Yavary, Arhan Jain, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ayzaan Wahid, Ben Burgess-Limerick, Beomjoon Kim, Bernhard Schölkopf, Blake Wulfe, Brian Ichter, Cewu Lu, Charles Xu, Charlotte Le, Chelsea Finn, Chen Wang, Chenfeng Xu, Cheng Chi, Chenguang Huang, Christine Chan, Christopher Agia, Chuer Pan, Chuyuan Fu, Coline Devin, Danfei Xu, Daniel Morton, Danny Driess, Daphne Chen, Deepak Pathak, Dhruv Shah, Dieter Büchler, Dinesh Jayaraman, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Dorsa Sadigh, Edward Johns, Ethan Foster, Fangchen Liu, Federico Ceola, Fei Xia, Feiyu Zhao, Freek Stulp, Gaoyue Zhou, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Gautam Salhotra, Ge Yan, Gilbert Feng, Giulio Schiavi, Glen Berseth, Gregory Kahn, Guanzhi Wang, Hao Su, Hao-Shu Fang, Haochen Shi, Henghui Bao, Heni Ben Amor, Henrik I Christensen, Hiroki Furuta, Homer Walke, Hongjie Fang, Huy Ha, Igor Mordatch, Ilija Radosavovic, Isabel Leal, Jacky Liang, Jad Abou-Chakra, Jaehyung Kim, Jaimyn Drake, Jan Peters, Jan Schneider, Jasmine Hsu, Jeannette Bohg, Jeffrey Bingham, Jeffrey Wu, Jensen Gao, Jiaheng Hu, Jiajun Wu, Jialin Wu, Jiankai Sun, Jianlan Luo, Jiayuan Gu, Jie Tan, Jihoon Oh, Jimmy Wu, Jingpei Lu, Jingyun Yang, Jitendra Malik, João Silvério, Joey Hejna, Jonathan Booher, Jonathan Tompson, Jonathan Yang, Jordi Salvador, Joseph J. Lim, Junhyek Han, Kaiyuan Wang, Kanishka Rao, Karl Pertsch, Karol Hausman, Keegan Go, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Ken Goldberg, Kendra Byrne, Kenneth Oslund, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kevin Black, Kevin Lin, Kevin Zhang, Kiana Ehsani, Kiran Lekkala, Kirsty Ellis, Krishan Rana, Krishnan Srinivasan, Kuan Fang, Kunal Pratap Singh, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Kyle Hatch, Kyle Hsu, Laurent Itti, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Lerrel Pinto, Li Fei-Fei, Liam Tan, Linxi “Jim” Fan, Lionel Ott, Lisa Lee, Luca Weihs, Magnum Chen, Marion Lepert, Marius Memmel, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Masha Itkina, Mateo Guaman Castro, Max Spero, Maximilian Du, Michael Ahn, Michael C. Yip, Mingtong Zhang, Mingyu Ding, Minho Heo, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Mohit Sharma, Moo Jin Kim, Naoaki Kanazawa, Nicklas Hansen, Nicolas Heess, Nikhil J. Joshi, Niko Suenderhauf, Ning Liu, Norman Di Palo, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, Oier Mees, Oliver Kroemer, Osbert Bastani, Pannag R Sanketi, Patrick “Tree” Miller, Patrick Yin, Paul Wohlhart, Peng Xu, Peter David Fagan, Peter Mitrano, Pierre Sermanet, Pieter Abbeel, Priya Sundaresan, Qiuyu Chen, Quan Vuong, Rafael Rafailov, Ran Tian, Ria Doshi, Roberto Martín-Martín, Rohan Baija, Rosario Scalise, Rose Hendrix, Roy Lin, Runjia Qian, Ruohan Zhang, Russell Mendonca, Rutav Shah, Ryan Hoque, Ryan Julian, Samuel Bustamante, Sean Kirmani, Sergey Levine, Shan Lin, Sherry Moore, Shikhar Bahl, Shivin Dass, Shubham Sonawani, Shuran Song, Sichun Xu, Siddhant Haldar, Siddharth Karamcheti, Simeon Adebola, Simon Guist, Soroush Nasiriany, Stefan Schaal, Stefan Welker, Stephen Tian, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Sudeep Dasari, Suneel Belkhale, Sungjae Park, Suraj Nair, Suvir Mirchandani, Takayuki Osa, Tanmay Gupta, Tatsuya Harada, Tatsuya Matsushima, Ted Xiao, Thomas Kollar, Tianhe Yu, Tianli Ding, Todor Davchev, Tony Z. Zhao, Travis Armstrong, Trevor Darrell, Trinity Chung, Vidhi Jain, Vincent Vanhoucke, Wei Zhan, Wenxuan Zhou, Wolfram Burgard, Xi Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Xinghao Zhu, Xinyang Geng, Xiyuan Liu, Xu Liangwei, Xuanlin Li, Yao Lu, Yecheng Jason Ma, Yejin Kim, Yevgen Chebotar, Yifan Zhou, Yifeng Zhu, Yilin Wu, Ying Xu, Yixuan Wang, Yonatan Bisk, Yoonyoung Cho, Youngwoon Lee, Yuchen Cui, Yue Cao, Yueh-Hua Wu, Yujin Tang, Yuke Zhu, Yunchu Zhang, Yunfan Jiang, Yunshuang Li, Yunzhu Li, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Zehan Ma, Zhuo Xu, Zichen Jeff Cui, Zichen Zhang, Zipeng Lin
IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award
Optimized Design and Fabrication of Skeletal Muscle Actuators for Bio-syncretic Robots
Authors: Lianchao Yang, Chuang Zhang, Ruiqian Wang, Yiwei Zhang, and Lianqing Liu
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation
TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers
Authors: Alavilli, Anoushka; Nguyen, Khai; Schoedel, Samuel; Plancher, Brian; Manchester, Zachary
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics
VLFM: Vision-Language Frontier Maps for Semantic Navigation
Authors: Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha, Dhruv Batra, Jiuguang Wang, and Bernadette Bucher
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation
SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Robust Attention
Author: Isabel Leal, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain, Avinava Dubey, Jacob Varley, Michael S. Ryoo, Yao Lu, Frederick Liu, Vikas Sindhwani, Tamas Sarlos, Kenneth Oslund, Karol Hausman, Quan Vuong, and Kanishka Rao
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction
CoFRIDA: Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Human-Robot Co-Painting
Authors: Peter Schaldenbrand, Gaurav Parmar, Jun-Yan Zhu, James McCann, and Jean Oh
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics
Exoskeleton-Mediated Physical Human-Human Interaction for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Task
Authors: Lorenzo Vianello, Emek Baris Kucuktabak, Matthew Short, Clément Lhoste, Lorenzo Amato, Kevin Lynch, and Jose L. Pons
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design
Design and Modeling of a Nested Bi-cavity-based Soft Growing Robot for Grasping in Constrained Environments
Authors: Haochen Yong, Fukang Xu, Chenfei Li, Han Ding, and Zhigang Wu
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems
Do We Run Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-Phase Performance in System Size Scaling
Authors: Jonas Kuckling, Robin Luckey, Viktor Avrutin, Andrew Vardy, Andreagiovanni Reina, and Heiko Hamann
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Service Robotics
Learning to Walk in Confined Spaces Using 3D Representation
Authors: Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Lorenz Wellhausen, and Marco Hutter
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Vision
NGEL-SLAM: Neural Implicit Representation-based Global Consistent Low-Latency SLAM System
Authors: Yunxuan Mao, Xuan Yu, Kai Wang, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, and Yiyi Liao
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Time-Optimal Gate-Traversing Planner for Autonomous Drone Racing
Authors: Chao Qin, Maxime Simon Joseph Michet, Jingxiang Chen, and Hugh H.-T. Liu
RAS Publication Awards
King-Sun Fu Memorial IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award
RACER: Rapid Collaborative Exploration with a Decentralized Multi-UAV System
IEEE Transactions on Robotics; vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1816-1835, June 2023
Authors: Boyu Zhou, Hao Xu, and Shaojie Shen
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award — Five Winners
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1029-1036, Feb. 2023
Authors: Ignacio Vizzo, Tiziano Guadagnino, Benedikt Mersch, Louis Wiesmann, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss
Optimally Controlling the Timing of Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints: Experimental Validation of the Bi-Stiffness Actuation Concept
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8106-8113, Dec. 2023
Authors: Edmundo Pozo Fortunić, Mehmet C. Yildirim, Dennis Ossadnik, Abdalla Swikir, Saeed Abdolshah, and Sami Haddadin
LONER: LiDAR Only Neural Representations for Real-Time SLAM
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8042-8049, Dec. 2023
Authors: Seth Isaacson, Pou-Chun Kung, Mani Ramanagopal, Ram Vasudevan, and Katherine A. Skinner
H2-Mapping: Real-Time Dense Mapping Using Hierarchical Hybrid Representation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6787-6794, Oct. 2023
Authors: Chenxing Jiang, Hanwen Zhang, Peize Liu, Zehuan Yu, Hui Cheng, Boyu Zhou, and Shaojie Shen
Grasping Lightweight Objects With Chat-PM: A Rotorwash-Aware Motion Planning Method
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8114-8121, Dec. 2023
Authors: Lixian Zhang, Chengzhe Han, Yimin Zhu, Yifei Dong, Xiaoyu Ji, Zhenting Zhao, and Jianan Yang
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Best Paper Award
A Digital Twin of the Research Vessel Gunnerus for Lifecycle Services: Outlining Key Technologies
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 30-45, September 2023
Authors: Houxiang Zhang, Guoyuan Li, Lars Ivar Hatledal, Yingguang Chu, André Ellefsen, Peihua Han, Pierre Major, Robert Skulstad, Tongtong Wang, and Hans Petter Hildre
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics Best Paper Award
Supporting and Stabilizing the Scapulohumeral Rhythm with a Body- or Robot-Powered Orthosis
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics; vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 729-743, August 2022
Authors: Anna-Maria Georgarakis, Yves Zimmermann, Peter Wolf, Marco Hutter, and Robert Riener
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics Best Paper Award
Supporting and Stabilizing the Scapulohumeral Rhythm with a Body- or Robot-Powered Orthosis
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics; vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 729-743, August 2022
Authors: Anna-Maria Georgarakis, Yves Zimmermann, Peter Wolf, Marco Hutter, and Robert Riener
ICRA Conference Editorial Board Awards
Outstanding Associate Editor
Amir Patel Lijun Han
University of Cape Town, South Africa Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Edgar Bolivar-Nieto Massimiliano Mancini
University of Notre Dame, USA University of Trento, Italy
Reza Azadeh
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Outstanding Reviewer Award
Shenghai Yuan Minh Nhat Vu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore TU Wien, Austria
Hriday Bavle Carolina Higuera
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg University of Washington, USA
Dragomir Anguelov
Waymo, USA
IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
Optimization, Realtime Robotics, Will Floyd-Jones
Paolo Dario winner of the 2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award with IEEE President-elect Kathleen Kramer
Bruno Siciliano, winner of RAS Pioneer Award with Wolfram Burgard, RAS Awards Committee Chair
Mark R. Cutkosky, winner of the Pioneer Award with Wolfram Burgard, RAS Awards Committee Chair
Marcia O’Malley, ICRA Conference Editorial Board (CEB) Editor-in-Chief with Lijun Han and Amir Patel, two of the winners of the ICRA CEB Outstanding Associate Editor Award
Jun Nakanishi and Auke Ijspeert, winners of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award with Wolfram Burgard, RAS Awards Committee Chair
