ICRA
In plain wordsThe largest yearly robotics conference, run by the engineering society IEEE, covering everything from robot arms and drones to self-driving cars.
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the main annual meeting of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the largest gathering of robotics researchers, held each spring or early summer. It spans manipulation, locomotion, aerial and underwater robots, autonomous vehiclesautonomous vehicle, n.: A vehicle, usually a car, truck or shuttle, that can drive itself, sensing the road, deciding what to do and steering, braking and accelerating with no human driving., medical robotics, perception, planning and control, human–robot interaction and, increasingly, robot learningrobot learning, n.: Teaching robots skills from data and experience, such as watching demonstrations, practicing by trial and error or training in simulation, instead of programming every movement by hand.. With the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) and the smaller, more selective Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), it is one of the field's main venues, and its exhibitions and robot competitions make it a showcase for industry.
Origin
First held in 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia, as the IEEE International Conference on Robotics, adding 'and Automation' to its name from 1985. It is run by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, established as a council in 1984 and a full society in 1987.
Related
- robot learningrobot learning, n.: Teaching robots skills from data and experience, such as watching demonstrations, practicing by trial and error or training in simulation, instead of programming every movement by hand.
- CoRLCoRL, prop. n.: A yearly academic conference, started in 2017, for research where robotics meets machine learning.
- autonomous vehicleautonomous vehicle, n.: A vehicle, usually a car, truck or shuttle, that can drive itself, sensing the road, deciding what to do and steering, braking and accelerating with no human driving.
- humanoid robothumanoid robot, n.: A robot built roughly in human shape, with a head, torso, two arms and usually two legs, so that it can work in spaces and with tools designed for people.
- embodied AIembodied AI, n.: AI that has a body, usually a robot and sometimes a simulated character, and learns or acts by sensing and moving in a world rather than only processing text or images.
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CoRLCoRL, prop. n.: A yearly academic conference, started in 2017, for research where robotics meets machine learning.