Submission Portal Opens April 21 2025
Submission Deadline May 16 May 26 June 2 2025 (11:59pm, AoE)
Reviews and Decisions June 9 June 10 2025 (noon, PST)
Camera Ready Deadline June 16 June 20 2025 (11:59pm, AoE)
(To submit the camera-ready version, go to your paper → Edit → Revision)
Submission portal: OpenReview
We invite submissions in two categories: evaluation-centric papers (focused on ideas or methods on how to evaluate robots) and approach-centric papers (focused on robot systems or algorithms with a strong evaluation included).
Submitted approach-centric paper should prioritize evaluation metrics and results focused on achieving deployability and generalization of robot systems. Each submission should include a "Real-World Deployability and Generalization Discussion" section, contextualizing how the evaluation setup and results support real-world deployment and generalization of robot systems.
Topics of interest include:
Formal, statistical, and empirical evaluations
Benchmarking and standardizing evaluation
Simulation-based and real-world testing
Failure analysis
Trade-offs between innovation and standardization
Cross-disciplinary insights of evaluation methodologies
New robot system and approaches with an emphasis on work focused on real-world applicability and evaluation
Submissions should use the RSS 2025 template with a page limit of 4 pages plus n pages for references or appendices (4+n pages) submitted as a single PDF. Authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines provided on the RSS website. The review process will be double blind and conducted through OpenReview, following the same standards as the main conference.
Accepted papers and eventual supplementary material will be made available on the workshop website. However, this does not constitute an archival publication and no formal workshop proceedings will be made available, meaning contributors are free to publish their work in archival journals or conferences.
Poster Guidelines (all papers): Poster dimensions should not exceed 3 feet (height) by 3.5 feet (width). The poster session will be in Epstein Plaza. See Program for time.
Lightning Talks (all papers): In addition to presenting a poster, you will also have a 1.5-minute lightning talk. Please add 1 slide to the slide deck shared over email before June 23 AOE. See Program for time.
Spotlight Talks (selected papers): We will select two papers for contributed 7-minute spotlight talks. Authors of the selected papers will be notified privately. See Program for time.
Can supplementary material be added beyond the 4-page limit and are there any restrictions on it?
Yes, you may include additional supplementary material, but we ask that it be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in addition to the main submission and that it follow the same RSS format as the paper. References do not count towards the limit of 4 pages. Please submit everything as a single PDF.
Can a submission to this workshop be submitted to another RSS workshop in parallel?
While it is up to the author, it is not a good practice in most cases.
Can a paper be submitted to the workshop that has already appeared at a previous conference with published proceedings or RSS 2025?
We encourage authors to add a new paragraph about evaluation for such papers. Submitted papers to this workshop do not constitute an archival publication and no formal workshop proceedings will be made available, meaning contributors are free to publish their work in archival journals or conferences.
Can I use LLMs to assist in writing the paper?
We follow RSS guidelines provided in https://roboticsconference.org/information/authorinfo/.