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:
FIRST PRIZE of the META QUEST PRO went to Yonas Teodros Tefera and team for their contribution "Immersive Remote Teleoperation: Gaze-Driven Approaches From Sampling to Rendering".
SECOND PRIZE of the META QUEST PRO went to Frank Regal and team for their contribution "Using Augmented Reality to Assess and Modify Mobile Manipulator Surface Repair Plans".
THIRD PRIZE of $500 from IEEE RAS TC Haptics went to Shubham Sonawani and team for their contribution "Comparing Static and Dynamic Signals for Effective Human-Robot Collaboration".
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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
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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
XR Technologies (as applied in Robotics) – Interface design, haptics and audition, cognitive and spatial perception, collaboration and usability, throughput and latency, embodiment and presence, etc.
XR in Telepresence, Telexistence, and Telerobotics (space, agriculture, industry, etc.)
XR in collaborative social and/or physical human-robot interaction
XR for perception (visual/haptics/auditory), locomotion, manipulation, mapping, planning in robotics.
XR in telesurgery, tele-medicine, and tele-rehabilitation
XR for robot learning, e.g., learning-from-demonstration, imitation learning, transfer learning, sim-to-real reinforcement learning
XR in other aspects of robotics, e.g., natural language processing, cognitive and ergonomics aspects of XR, etc.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Workshop at IROS 2023: THU, OCTOBER 5th, 2023 (All Day, US Eastern Standard Time)
ORGANIZERS
IIT, Italy
Microsoft, Switzerland
NYU, USA
ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
Waseda Univ., Japan
University of Tokyo, Japan
UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
LOCATION
Huntington Place, Detroit
1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226, USA
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