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IROS 2025, Hangzhou, China
🌏Rm 207, Hangzhou International Expo Center (HIEC)
📅 08:25 am -12:00 pm, October 24, 2025
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Welcome
Welcome
Contact is a cornerstone of robotic manipulation, enabling robots to interact purposefully with their environment and extend their operational capabilities. Traditionally, research has emphasized collision avoidance to ensure safety in robotic applications; however, controlled contact can actively enhance task performance. Equally compelling is the concept of fast contact—often manifesting as impact—which has typically been underexploited or even deliberately avoided. When harnessed correctly, these rapid interactions offer a promising pathway for dynamic manipulation and improved efficiency. This workshop aims to bridge these paradigms by exploring both the nuanced control of traditional contact and the innovative potential of impact-aware manipulation.
This workshop marks the first gathering of experts and researchers to discuss the topic of Contact and Impact-aware Manipulation (CIM). The proposed half-day event will explore recent advancements in robotic manipulation strategies in contact-rich environments and review the outcomes of the special issue on impact-aware robotics published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Furthermore, the workshop will feature presentations on advanced tactile sensors and their application in contact-aware operations on humanoid robots, showcased by the leading robotics company. By bringing together academic researchers and industrial engineers under one roof, this workshop promotes deeper integration between haptic perception and robotic manipulation and further fosters innovative research for CIM.
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Invited Speakers
Organizers
Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Hong Kong & Centre for Garment Production Limited (Hong Kong)
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Awards
🎉 Best Paper Award (New)
Physical Constraints-based Variable Impedance Control for Alternating Impact-aware Robotic Tasks
Hongmin Wu, Wu Yan, Zhaoyang Liao, Xuefeng Zhou
🎉 Best Demo Award (New)
SCAL-L: Contact-Triggered Passive Opening for Environment-Adaptive Pinch-Lifting
Wentao Guo, Wenzeng Zhang
🎉 Best Paper Award in Robot Learning (New)
Hitting the Puck: Learning Contact and Impact-Aware Policies for Nonprehensile Manipulation with Dynamic Measurements
Zhenxing Li, Dongming Han, Xilong Sun, Yifeng Tang
Call for Contributions
Topics of Interest (including but not limited to)
Hardware design: tactile/force sensor, artificial skin, contact-safe robot mechanism;
Perception: contact/impact sensing, detection, localization;
Control: whole-body control, learning-based strategy, task and motion planning for CIM;
Experiment: simulation, sim2real, real-world experimental validation for CIM;
Modeling: contact/impact model, formulations of dynamic interactions;
Others: benchmarks, datasets, and demos for CIM.
Submission
Content: already-accepted/ongoing work;
Format: IEEE conference template, PDF, < 20M;
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Paper Track
- To identify your submission as a paper, please prefix your submission's title with "[Paper]" in the OpenReview system.
- Page Limit: max TWO pages (excluding references).
- Note: if there is no specific prefix, it defaults to paper track.
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Demo Track
- To identify your submission as a demo, please prefix your submission's title with "[Demo]" in the OpenReview system.
- Page Limit: max ONE page (excluding references).
- Please embed the video link from YouTube (recommended) or Vimeo or Google Drive (MP4 format) or BiliBili into the same PDF file.
Review Process: All submissions will undergo peer review based on relevance, technical quality, and ethics;
Presentation: Accepted ones have opportunities to be presented in the workshop with a 1-slide PPT and a poster;
Publication: Accepted ones will be shown on the workshop homepage;
Please send your contribution to: CIM25 OpenReview system .
Registration Discount
To encourage author participation, we’re offering a limited number of discounted registrations.
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Please register here by 30 Sep 2025 (UTC-0).
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Selected authors will receive a confirmation email on 7 Oct 2025 (UTC-0).
Awards
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Sponsored by
PaXini Tech (Shenzhen) Co., LTD
- Paper Track
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🏆 1 Best Paper Award (200 USD)
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🎖️ 3 Best Paper Award (Finalists) (100 USD each)
- Demo Track [On-site demo is encouraged but not required] (New)
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🏆 1 Best Demo Award (200 USD)
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🎖️ 3 Best Demo Award (Finalists) (100 USD each)
Sponsored by Robot Learning (New)
- Paper Track
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🏆 1 Best Paper Award in Robot Learning (200 USD)
Invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the newly launched journal Robot Learning
Eligibility: The awardees must
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be listed among the authors of the submission;
attend the workshop in person (not remotely);
be a student or early-career researcher (i.e., post-doc, research assistant/associate, assistant professor/researcher) ;
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agree to present their work in 'Poster Spotlight Teaser' session, and to participate in the 'Panel Discussion' session.
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Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 30 Sep 2025 (UTC-0)
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Acceptance Notification: 7 Oct 2025 (UTC-0)
Schedule
| Local Time (UTC+8) |
Speaker | Tentative Topic |
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| 08:25 - 08:30 5 mins |
Opening and Introduction - Organizer | |
| 08:30 - 08:55 25 mins |
Abderrahmane Kheddar CNRS-AIST |
Impact-aware Planning and Control in the Task-Space |
| 08:55 - 09:20 25 mins |
Dongheui Lee TU Wien |
Learning Contact-rich Robotic Assembly Tasks |
| 09:20 - 09:45 25 mins |
Yan Gu Purdue |
Impact-aware End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Table Tennis |
| 09:45 - 10:00 15 mins |
Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 10 mins |
Poster Spotlight Teaser | |
| 10:10 - 10:35 25 mins |
Jiajun Wu Stanford |
Physically-Grounded, Contact-Aware, Perception, Prediction, and Manipulation |
| 10:35 - 11:00 25 mins |
David Navarro PolyU |
Collective Dexterous Manipulation in Multi-Agent Systems |
| 11:00 - 11:25 25 mins |
Zhengxue Cheng PaXini & SJTU |
TacCompress: Compact Representation and Compression of Tactile Signals |
| 11:25 - 12:00 35 mins |
Panel Discussion & Closing | |
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