[CFP] RAFFI-el 2025 Workshop @ ICSR 2025: Call for Abstracts/Contributions

[Angelo Cangelosi]

RAFFI-el Workshop 2025: Robotics and Arts for the Future of the Food Industry

The RAFFI-el Workshop (Robotics and Arts for the Future of the Food Industry) invites researchers, creatives, and innovators to explore how robotics, AI, wearable technologies and the arts can collaboratively reimagine tomorrow’s food systems. By bridging technology and creativity, the workshop investigates innovative and ethical approaches to food production, distribution, and consumption—fostering sustainable practices, enhancing human and planetary well-being, and enriching culinary experiences. Bringing together experts from robotics, artificial intelligence, food science, and the arts, RAFFI-el offers a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on topics such as robotic farming, AI-driven food design, wearable tech for chefs, and interactive dining. The workshop invites visionary ideas that challenge conventional boundaries and shape a more inclusive, artistic, and technologically advanced food future. This full-day workshop offers a unique interdisciplinary platform where technology meets creativity to envision sustainable, ethical, and enriching food futures.

Venue

• Location: Co-located with the 17th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI in Naples, Italy
• Date: September 10, 2025, full day

Call for Contributions
Contributions are now invited. We welcome submissions that reflect interdisciplinary perspectives and explore innovative ideas in the following list of topics:

• Robotics, AI and wearable technologies in the food industry
• Creative practices, arts, and design approaches to technological advancements in the food sector 
• Intersection of robotics and arts in food
• Robotics and AI for agriculture and food industry
• AI and biodiversity in food systems
• Wearable technologies in food preparation
• Wearable technologies and AI for wellbeing and healthy food research
• Embodied intelligence and affective computing in the food industry
• Artistic future perspectives on food harvesting, processing and consumption
• Citizen engagement, inclusion, and participatory robotics
• Sustainable and ethical food production
• Social robotics and human-robot interaction
• Arts and technology
• Agriculture and food industry

Submissions must follow the guidelines [guidelines link] and be uploaded on EasyChair [submission link]. All submissions will undergo peer review. Accepted submission will be presented by their authors in a 10-minute pitch and a poster session at the workshop. We aim to publish the proceedings of the workshop in CEUR-WS. 

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: July 20, 2025
  
  
• Notification of acceptance: July 28, 2025
  
  
• Workshop: September 10, 2025
  
  

Register as a presenter or attendee and join us in shaping the food futures we want to taste.

Website

 RAFFI-el website

Contact

Please redirect any queries to Dr. Francesco Semeraro at the following email addressfrancesco...@manchester.ac.uk