RSS Pioneers 2025

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RSS Pioneers is an intensive workshop for senior Ph.D. students and early career researchers in the robotics community. Held in conjunction with the main Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, each year the RSS Pioneers brings together a cohort of the world’s top early-career researchers. The workshop aims to provide these promising researchers with networking opportunities and help to navigate their next career stages, and foster creativity and collaboration surrounding challenges in all areas of robotics. The workshop will include a mix of research and career talks from senior scholars in the field from both academia and industry, research presentations from attendees and networking activities. RSS Pioneers is planned to be an in-person workshop, excluding any unexpected developments. This is the eighth RSS Pioneers workshop and is planned to be held in Los Angeles, California on June 20th.

To facilitate in-person attendance, the workshop will provide partial support for registration, lodging, and travel for RSS Pioneers and the main RSS 2025 conference. RSS Pioneers is inspired by the format of the HRI Pioneers workshop. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh RSS Pioneers were successfully held in each year from 2018-2024. 

Interested senior PhD students and postdocs are encouraged to apply by following the instructions on the application page. 

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