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SOCIETY NEWS
IROS 2021 Online in Prague
By Libor Preucil and Robert Babuska
T
he 2021 IEEE/Robotics Society
of Japan International Con -
ference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS 2021)
Online was held in Prague, Czech
Republic, 27 September-1 October
2021 (see Figures 1 and 2). We were
excited to host this flagship robotics
conference in the country that in tro -
duced the word robot to the world
ex actly 100 years ago!
The entire robotics community was
looking forward to an in-person meeting
in Prague. Unfortunately, due to
uncertainty in how the COVID-19 pandemic
would develop and what kind of
travel restrictions might be imposed,
early in 2021 we made the painful decision
to reshape the event to a fully
online conference to ensure equal conditions
for participants from all countries.
To bring IROS 2021 as close as
possible to an in-person meeting, we
put an emphasis on interactive, live
online sessions for all types of presentations
(see Figures 3−7). In addition,
each paper was accompanied by a
15-min prerecorded presentation,
which was made available on the online
conference platform gCon three weeks
before the conference. The entire content
of the online conference platform
remains available for participants until
the end of March 2022 at http://
iros2021.gcon.me.
The live IROS program featured
three plenary talks and 10 keynote
talks, covering robot learning, optimiDigital
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Figure 2. IROS 2021 featured virtual sightseeing opportunities, including the Prague Plaza.
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zation, nonlinear control, human-
robot interaction, medical robotics,
visual localization, navigation, planning,
and so on. The technical sessions
were organized into three blocks per
day, each comprising 20 parallel tracks.
To facilitate live interaction for most of
the attendees worldwide, we fit the
program into a three-and-a-half-hour
window at a time that was reasonable
Figure 1. The IROS 2021 Online conference lobby.

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