Robot Learning From Human Teleoperation:
Prospects and Challenges
IROS 2025 - Workshop
October 20th - Afternoon Session - Pressroom D
October 20th - Afternoon Session - Pressroom D
Imitation Learning (IL) from human teleoperation has emerged as a powerful approach for training robotic systems in complex manipulation tasks. However, challenges remain in developing effective strategies for data collection, ensuring standardization across diverse teleoperation setups, and integrating tactile sensing for improved learning from demonstration (LfD). This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore these key challenges, addressing the question: What are the best strategies to collect and standardize teleoperation data, and what is the role of tactile sensing and haptic feedback in LfD?
Featuring expert speakers, the workshop will present insights on best practices for designing teleoperation interfaces, curating high-quality datasets, and leveraging tactile feedback for enhanced imitation learning. A poster session, complemented by selected lightning talks, will provide an interactive platform for participants to share innovative research, fostering collaboration and discussion on the future of LfD in robotics.
Invited Speakers
Keynote 1: "Learning Keypoint-based Task Representation from Human Demonstrations for Manipulation Tasks"
Keynote 2: "Dexterous Tactile and non-tactile telerobots for human demonstrations and data capture - some experiences"
Professor at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR) at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Since 2012, he has headed the Chair of High-Performance Humanoid Technologies.
Director of Shadow Robot Company, Director of ADRA Association, Director of euRobotics aisbl
Keynote 3: "ergoCub: Embodied AI from Computational co-design and Imitation Learning"
Keynote 4: "Leveraging (imperfect) teleoperation for dexterous robotic manipulation"
Head of Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Researcher at IIT. Since September 2021, Daniele is the PI leading the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence research line at IIT.
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Online
Keynote 5: "Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation"
Keynote 4: "TBD"
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Online
Technical Speaker
Unitree Robotics
Organizers
University College of London (UCL)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Dr. Gabriele Giudici
Dr. Lorenzo Jamone
Dr. Yue Li
Dr. Rania Rayyes
Edgar Welte
Important Dates:
Deadline for Poster Submission 15th September 2025
Notification of Acceptance 30th September 2025
Final Poster Submission 15th October 2025
Workshop Date 20th October 2025