The premier global academic conference in robotics, The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), was held in Hangzhou. The conference was chaired by Professor Hesheng Wang, Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It was jointly initiated by IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ, and SICE, and co-hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, China Jiliang University, and the Zhejiang Society of Automation.

Centered on the theme “Human-Robotics Frontier”, the conference featured 3 plenary reports, 48 keynote presentations, 82 workshops focused on cutting-edge topics, 6 academic forums, 3 tutorial sessions, 187 “Late Breaking Results” poster exhibitions, and 15 “IROS EXPO” prototype demonstration zones.

IROS 2025 Plenary Report

Our research group collaborated with tactile perception experts from Seoul National University in South Korea to organize a workshop on “Advanced Haptic Sensors and Devices for Healthcare Robots“. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on how tactile perception enables medical care robots to achieve complex environmental awareness, dynamic responsiveness, and safe human-robot interaction. The event received an enthusiastic response from attendees.

IROS 2025 “Advanced Haptic Sensors and Devices for Healthcare Robots” Workshop

Our research group member delivered an oral presentation on the topic of “Advancing Robot Interaction Safety: A Teleoperated Shared-Control Approach Using a Lightweight Force-Feedback Exoskeleton” at the conference, introducing a teleoperation shared control algorithm for safe human-machine interaction. This algorithm effectively processes proximity and contact information from the external environment to ensure the safety of human-machine interactions. The paper was awarded as an Outstanding WIRA Student Paper Award Finalist.

IROS 2025 Oral Presentation

Our research group’s work, “Super-Resolution Tactile Sensor Arrays with Sparse Units”, received the Best Paper Award at the IROS AHFHR Workshop.

IROS 2025 Best Paper Award at the IROS AHFHR Workshop