[Meetings] [CFP] Roboletics 2.0: Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills at ICRA 2025 – Deadline Extension and Travel Support Announcement

[Alap Kshirsagar]

Dear all,

The submission deadline for Roboletics 2.0: Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills at ICRA 2025 has been extended to April 20.

We’re also excited to announce a special session on RoboCup as part of the workshop, along with a "Best RoboCup-Themed Paper Award" sponsored by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on RoboCup. In addition, the RoboCup TC will offer travel support for participants from underrepresented regions.

This workshop brings together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to explore cutting-edge innovations in athletic robotics. The event aims to accelerate the transition of agile robots from controlled labs to complex, real-world environments.

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/roboletics2
Workshop Date: May 23, 2025
Location: Atlanta, USA
Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025

We invite researchers to submit their contributions to the workshop in the form of short papers (2 pages) accompanied by video demonstrations or standalone papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented as posters, presentations, and videos, and with the authors' permission, they will be published on the workshop website. All papers must be submitted in PDF and must follow the IEEE Conference format. All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). Both unpublished original contributions and previously published work may be submitted.  
Topics of Interest include:
- Systems design enabling athletic behaviors in robots
- Real-time controllers and planners for athletic movements
- Safety frameworks for athletic robots
- Sensing and state estimation under time and compute constraints with incomplete and imperfect knowledge of the world
- Communication systems for robotic team sports
- Synthesizing strategies for sports-playing robots
- Human-robot collaboration for athletic and agile robots

We encourage submissions related to the leagues of RoboCup (https://www.robocup.org/). 

We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop.

Organizing Committee:
Matthew Gombolay, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Zulfiqar Zaidi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Alap Kshirsagar, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Kin Man Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Kai Ploeger, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Zixuan Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Qingyu Xiao, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA