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IEEE ICRA 2015-Celebrating the Diversity
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he IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) was held at the
Washington State Convention
Center in Seattle, Washington, 26-30
May 2015. ICRA is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and is a premier
international forum for robotics researchers to present their latest work.
Over 3,000 attendees (an ICRA
record) participated in a wide variety
of activities. Highlighting the conference were 940 technical papers presented over three days in ten parallel
tracks, representing authors from over
40 countries. These technical talks,
presented as short highlight talks plus
interactive presentations, were
selected from 2,275 submissions (an
ICRA record), by the Senior Program
Committee (Figure 1), resulting in a
41% acceptance rate. Workshops and
tutorials were also extremely popular,
with over 1,400 attendees (an ICRA
record) participating in 42 workshops
and tutorials.
Excellent plenary talks were given by
Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Helen Greiner (CyPhy
Works), and Dean Kamen (DEKA
Research and Development Corporation) and were streamed live during the
conference. Twelve keynote speakers
also highlighted their latest research. All
of the plenary and keynote talks are
available on the ICRA 2015 website
(www.icra2015.org) and on YouTube.

IEEE ICRA 2015 included a vibrant
industrial exhibition, with over 65
exhibitors (Figure 2) from industry and
academia, along with publishers and
technical societies. The opening night
reception in the exhibit hall recognized
the exhibitors and sponsors who supported the conference.
Many innovative forums and special
events were held at ICRA 2015. A new
forum was created this year to highlight

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2015.2452091
Date of publication: 11 September 2015

Figure 2. The IEEE ICRA 2015 exhibition featured over 65 exhibitors. (Photo courtesy of
IEEE ICRA 2015.)

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robotics activities and education in the
developing world. This forum included
presentations on robotics in Mexico,
Egypt, South Africa, Peru, Ghana, Thailand, and India. Also new this year was a
special RAS conference highlights track,
which featured top papers from four
other RAS conferences: 1) IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its
Social Impacts 2014, 2) IEEE International Conference on Automation

Figure 1. The IEEE ICRA 2015 Senior Program Committee. (Photo courtesy of IEEE
ICRA 2015.)

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