SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

HORIZONS OF AN EXTENDED ROBOTICS REALITY 

XR-ROB | 2023

A CONVERGING FUTURE OF XR AND ROBOTICS

SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTED on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2023

THE SECOND XR-ROB WORKSHOP @ IROS WAS 

a GRAND SUCCESS!

Thanks to the keen participation from the poster authors and the IROS audience (in-person and online), and the instructive talks from the speakers and panelists, the second XR-ROB workshop was a grand success! A big thank you to our sponsors and endorsers, and the IROS committee for allowing us to conduct the workshop this year.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN NEXT YEAR @ IROS 2024!

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Heartiest congratulations to the poster competition winners:

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Group Photo @ XR-ROB 2023

Prize Distribution 1

Prize Distribution 2

Prize Distribution 3

Group Photo @ XR-ROB

Panel Discussion 1

Panel Discussion 2

Audience @ XR-ROB 2023

HIGHLIGHTING LEADING EDGE RESEARCH IN THE ROLE THAT EXTENDED REALITY CAN PLAY IN ROBOTICS 

POSTER WINNER PRIZES 

SPONSORED BY

ENDORSED BY

Extended reality (XR) is a “catch-all” term, extending the representation of the real world to humans, to enhance their interaction with it through Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality. These topics intersect with robotics in important ways: (i) XR essentially requires the same spatial perception of the environment as a robotic agent interacting in a real-world environment; (ii) XR interfaces and robots utilize prior knowledge of how humans perceive, represent, and move through space for tasks, e.g., semantic scene understanding; and (iii) XR is a simulation environment for realistic physics-based interaction between elements, which can be exploited for robot learning. 

XR and Robotics draw on contributions from diverse fields, e.g., robot mechanisms, control, haptics, simulations and digital twins, HCI/HRI, AI/ML/DL, SLAM, neural interfaces, natural language and gesture understanding, user interface design, as well as cognitive psychology. 

This workshop brings together researchers from the XR and Robotics worlds, with the goal of discussing how XR helps address challenges in robotics through the theoretical and experimental bases of perception, cognition, and interaction behaviour in XR technologies, including environments design, data representation (virtual models, interaction physics, rendering, video, point-clouds, 3D reconstruction, ambient sensors), sensory substitution (tactile, auditory), natural gesture and intention understanding, real-time data transmission, etc

WORKSHOP TOPICS

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Submissions Open: FRI, June 30th, 2023 (AoE)

Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): MON, August 14th, 2023 (AoE)

Acceptance Notification: FRI, September 8th, 2023 (AoE)

Presenter Name Confirmation: FRI, September 29th, 2023 (AoE)

Camera-Ready Deadline: SUN, October 1st, 2023 (AoE)

Workshop at IROS 2023: THU, OCTOBER 5th, 2023 (All Day, US Eastern Standard Time)

ORGANIZERS

Jeffrey Delmerico

Microsoft, Switzerland

Helen Oleynikova

ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Fumihiro Kato

Waseda Univ., Japan

Mitsuhiro Kamezaki

University of Tokyo, Japan

Daniel Szafir

UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

LOCATION

Huntington Place, Detroit

1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226, USA