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Workshop abstract

 

In recent years, robotics have experienced remarkable progress in terms of hardware for real-world manipulation. While new architectures—such as supernumerary robots, multi-arm aerial and loco-manipulation, and humanoids—are emerging and becoming more prevalent, their real-world effectiveness remains limited. Humanoids, for example, can perform impressive free-motion tasks like backflips and frontflips, yet they still rely heavily on pre-scripted motions or teleoperation, especially for tasks requiring coordinated multi-arm manipulation. This dependence makes them inflexible in dynamic, unstructured environments.

This workshop aims to push these boundaries by discussing and addressing a key question: 

What are the main challenges and potential solutions in leveraging both state-of-the-art model-based and model-free methods (successful for single-arms) to enhance the capabilities of these new multi-arm designs?

Discussions will focus on a comprehensive set of challenges and solutions, with expert-led insights into:

  1. Multi-arm tasks in the real-world: A taxonomy of tasks are there for the robots;
  2. Multi-arm and whole-body coordination: Ensuring certified and adaptive behavior; 
  3. Impact-aware manipulation: Enabling realistic real-time interactions;
  4. Learning and demonstration: Teaching new multi-arm tasks efficiently; 
  5. Human-robot collaboration: A supernumerary perspective on multi-arm teamwork.

A prominent theme throughout the workshop is interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together the expertise of engineers, academics, industry partners, alongside early-career researchers. It will serve as a platform for sharing knowledge, defining benchmarks, and shaping the future of dynamic, intelligent, and real-world-ready multi-limb robotic systems. By integrating these perspectives into an interdisciplinary approach, this workshop seeks to drive tangible progress in multi-arm manipulation research and real-world deployment.

 

Call for contributions

 

We invite submissions of extended abstracts and position papers (2–4 pages, excluding acknowledgements and references) in the IEEE Conference format. In addition, we welcome video and demo submissions that showcase innovative approaches in manipulation.

Important Dates

  • Call for Participation Opens: 1 July 2025
  • Submission Deadline: 20 September 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: 1 October 2025
  • Camera-ready Submission: 10 October 2025

We are pleased to present:

  • Two Best Workshop Paper Awards (150 USD each), sponsored by NOKOV Science & Technology Co., Ltd;
  • Three Second Best Workshop Paper Awards (50 USD each), sponsored by Guangdong Yue Shang Venture Capital Co., Ltd;

Winners will receive the monetary prize and a certificate.

 

Topics of interest

 

  • Whole-body Motion Coordination
  • Dynamic Object Transfer & Regrasping
  • Adaptive & Decentralized Cooperative Control
  • Multi-Agent Learning & Cross-Limb Knowledge Transfer
  • Whole-Body Agile Manipulation
  • Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-arm Systems
  • Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation
  • Dynamic Manipulation of Moving Objects
  • Robust Control in Uncertain Environments
  • Benchmarking Agile Multi-Limb Systems
  • Deformable Object Manipulation
  • Cross-Platform Dynamic Manipulation
  • Bio-Inspired Coordination & Learned Synergies
  • Real-Time Motion & Grasp Synthesis
  • Safety-Critical Agile Manipulation

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Program

 

Time Description
08.45 – 09.00 Welcome and Introduction by the organizers
09.00 – 09.25 Talk 1: Dual-arm human-robot collaborative imitation learning by Yanlong Huang
09.25 – 09.50 Talk 2: Representing Constraints in Human Bimanual Manipulation for Transfer to Humanoid Robots by Franziska Krebs
09.50 – 10.15 Contributed Abstract Lightning Talks
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break & poster session
10.45 – 11.10 Talk 3: Impact-Aware Manipulation / Exploiting intentional collisions to speed up bimanual task executions by Alessandro Saccon
11.10 – 11.35 Talk 4: Enabling Versatility and Dexterity of the Dual-Arm Manipulators by Yi Ren
11.35 – 12.00 Panel Discussion and Award ceremony

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Invited Speakers

  

 

 

Dr. Yanlong Huang

Assistant Professor, University of Leeds, UK.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Mrs. Franziska Krebs

PhD Candidate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Prof. Alessandro Saccon  

Associate Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Dr. Yi Ren

Technical Expert in Robotics, Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory Huawei Technologies, China.

 

  

  

 

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Organizers

Kuanqi Cai

PhD Student Fellow, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy & Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Email: kuanqi.cai@iit.it


Luis F.C. Figueredo

Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Email: figueredo@ieee.org


Marta Lagomarsino

Post-Doc, Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRII) Lab, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy.

Email: marta.lagomarsino@iit.it


Riddhiman Laha

PhD Candidate, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Email: riddhiman.laha@tum.de


Qiyi Tong

PhD Student, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.

Email: qiyi.tong@iit.it


Aude Billard

Full Professor, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Email: aude.billard@epfl.ch


Arash Ajoudani

Senior Researcher Tenured, Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRII) Lab, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy

Email: arash.ajoudani@iit.it

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