IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

The flagship annual robotics conference hosted by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

ICRA is hosted by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and has run annually since 1984, usually in May or June; it's one of the largest academic robotics conferences, drawing thousands of paper submissions each year. Its coverage spans nearly every area of robotics — motion planning, control, perception, SLAM, manipulation, legged locomotion, and human-robot interaction — and robot-learning and VLA papers have grown quickly in recent years. It's considered, alongside IROS, one of robotics' two major general-purpose conferences, and compared with the more focused CoRL and RSS, it covers more ground at a larger scale. It's also linked with the journal RA-L, whose accepted papers can be presented at ICRA. ICRA 2025 was held in Atlanta, USA.

ExampleMany classic algorithms debuted at ICRA — Kajita and colleagues' 2003 ZMP preview control, for instance, and Mellinger and Kumar's 2011 minimum-snap trajectory generation for quadrotors.

Also called

ICRA

Related

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · Conference on Robot Learning · Robotics: Science and Systems · IEEE T-RO / IJRR / RA-L · IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · Top-tier Conferences & Journals (CCF-A Venues)

Sources

Wikipedia: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

As of

2025-05