IROS 2025

Last month, members of our research team had the great pleasure of attending IROS 2025, one of the biggest annual Robotics Conferences. This year, the event was hosted in beautiful Hangzhou and ran from October 20th-24th.

Representing the Human Robotics Lab in the event was PhD students Zheyu (Lawrence), Yangmengfei (Murphy) as well as Jon (one of our academics). Here Murphy presented some of the work on implicit motor learning from his graduated MPhil at the workshop “Augmentative Human-Robot Interaction: From Human Augmentation to Human-Inspired Collaboration”. This workshop was co-organised by Jon as well as colleagues working across the UK, Canada and China. Jon also presented his recently published RAL paper “Comparison of Solo and Collaborative Trimanual Operation of a Supernumerary Limb in Tasks With Varying Physical Coupling” at the conference.

IROS was a fantastic week with more than 8000 attendees and 160 hardware demonstrations at the associated expo. The team had the great opportunity to see the state of the art, meet old friends and colleagues and network with potential future collaborators and industry partners. A big thank you to all the organisers and to everyone who helped support our team.  Looking forward to next year!

Journalist(s):Jon