R4R Workshop

Rust for Robotics: Building Robust Foundations for Tomorrow's Autonomous Systems

ICRA 2025 Workshop | Monday, May 19, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Room 404

Content

This workshop explores the potential of Rust in addressing current challenges in robotics software development. Bringing together industry leaders, academics, and open-source contributors, the workshop will cover Rust's value proposition for robotics, its ecosystem, its role in research and education, adoption challenges, and potential in emerging fields. Through presentations, panel discussions, demos, and poster sessions, participants will gain insights into Rust's capabilities and contribute to strategies for its adoption in robotics. Targeting software engineers, researchers, educators, and students, this workshop aims to catalyze a shift towards safer, more efficient programming in robotics, potentially accelerating the development of more reliable and secure autonomous systems across various applications.

This workshop will include 8 invited talks, 2 panel discussions, and a poster/demo presentation session.

Rust Features

Multithreading

Rust design makes it super easy to develop multithreaded applications.

It's going to be a breath of fresh air compared to C/C++ MPI, or fighting against Python Global Interpreter Lock(GIL)

Concurrency

Rust's design makes it remarkably easy to develop concurrent applications that handle intensive I/O operations efficiently.

Memory Management

Rust is based on clear memory management using lifetime, making it impossible to call after being freed in C++ or needing to deal with a garbage collector in Python!