Participants are encouraged to submit their research for presentation at the workshop. The submitted papers should be no more than 2 pages (excluding references and appendix) and should follow the RSS paper format. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted papers will be hosted on the workshop website and presented in poster and spotlight sessions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Social Interaction

• LLM/LVM in assistive robotics

• Multimodal sensing (visual, force, capacitance, tactile, etc) for assistive manipulation

• Personalization and safety in HRI context

• Long-horizon assistive manipulation tasks

• Simulation environment for caregiving and sim-to-real transfer learning

• Data-efficient perception and assistive manipulation

• Fail-safe strategies for assistive manipulation

• Virtual/Augmented Reality User Interfaces for assistive manipulation

Papers submission: Researchers interested in presenting their work during the workshop can submit 2 pages of abstract in the RSS format. Please note that it is possible to use material that has already been presented in a previous conference. Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers. Papers could be submitted via e-mail to: fan.zhang@honda-ri.de or jihong.zhu@york.ac.uk. Please include "Call for Papers: RSS WS on Learning for Assistive Robots" in the email subject line.

“Blue Sky” papers: 

We seek “Blue Sky” submissions (2 pages in RSS format) that present a novel high-level perspective of the challenges associated with learning for assistive robotics. Preference will be given to early career academics—senior graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers in academia and industry. Please include “[Blue Sky]” in the paper title.

Important dates 

• Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2024 (AoE) 

• Notification of acceptance: Jun 15, 2024 (AoE) / ASAP

• Workshop: July 15, 2024

Presentation instructions 

Poster presenters will have to prepare a 1-slide presentation to briefly present their contribution during the "Poster Teasers" and an A0 poster in portrait orientation to be presented during the "Poster Session".