Special Session for the 11 th International Conference on Advanced Robots & Mechatronics ICARM (Code: 7jt1r)
Special Session for the 11 th International Conference on Advanced Robots & Mechatronics ICARM (Code: 7jt1r)
About the Special Session:
Humanoid robotics is witnessing major advancements driven by stronger industrial platforms, better actuation, and the integration of machine learning, perception, manipulation and control. Industrial and academic efforts are expanding deployment into logistics, manufacturing, inspection, and assistance. Despite these successes, multiple scientific, technological, and integration challenges remain open. Humanoids must operate safely in human environments, maintain robustness under real-world uncertainties, and achieve reliable manipulation, locomotion, perception, and autonomous decision-making under constrained computational and energy limits. Mechatronic design, software architectures, large-scale embodied AI models, and advanced control approaches all remain active research domains. The session aims to gather researchers and industry to present recent progress and connect technologies across design, control, perception, autonomy, safety, and large-scale deployment, from fundamental research to practical industrial implementation.
Humanoid robots platforms
Mechanism and actuator design for humanoid robots
Whole-body control and multi-contact locomotion
Humanoid manipulation and dexterous skills
Perception and sensor fusion for humanoids
Software architectures and real-time systems
AI-based motion planning and learning for control
Human-humanoid interaction and safety
Simulation and digital twins for humanoid robots
Field deployment and industrial integration of humanoids
Data-driven control and embodied AI for humanoid
Please refer to the conference website for latest updated submission deadlines
Organizers:
Maya SLEIMAN, Ph.D.
Associate researcher, Laboratory IBISC, University of Evry Paris Saclay
36 Rue de Pelvoux, 91000 Evry Courcouronnes France
Office: +33 1 69 47 06 95
Email: mayasleiman@ieee.org
Luka MISKOVIC, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral researcher
Munich Institute for Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)
Technical University Munich (TUM)
Friedrich-Ludwig-Bauer-Straße 3, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Email: luka.miskovic@tum.de
Carlo ALESSI, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher, Humanoid Sensing and Perception, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via S. Quirico, 19D, 16163 Genoa, Italy
Email: carlo.alessi@iit.it
Maxime SABBAH, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Researcher, Equipe Gepetto, LAAS- CNRS
7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31400, Toulouse France
Email: msabbah@laas.fr
Noel MAALOUF, Ph.D,
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lebanese American University
Blat, Lebanon
Email: noel.maalouf@lau.edu.lb
Tadej PETRIC, Ph.D,
Senior Research Associate, Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamove cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljiana, Slovenia
Email: tadej.petric@ijs.si
Lorenzo NATALE, Ph.D,
Senior Researcher, Leader of the Humanoid Sensing and Perception group
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via S. Quirico, 19D, 16163 Genoa, Italy
Email: lorenzo.natale@iit.it
Samer ALFAYAD, Ph.D.
Professor in Robotics
University of Evry Paris Saclay
36 rue de Pelvoux - 91000 Evry Courcouronnes France
Email: samer.alfayad@univ-evry.fr
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qcsPdkoAAAAJ&hl=fr
Special Session schedule
To be Announced
Contact : mayasleiman@ieee.org to get more information on the special session