AIRO at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

This year, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), one of the world’s largest robotics conferences, took place in Vienna, Austria. AIRO was again well represented, contributing 3 conference papers (2 of them published in RA-L) and 3 workshop papers.

Conference papers

• One-Shot Demonstration for Slicing and Cutting Everyday Food Items (RA-L)
• SPILL: Size, Pose, and Internal Liquid Level Estimation of Transparent Glassware for Robotic Bartending (RA-L)
• Instrumentation for Imitation Learning: Enhancing Training Datasets for Clothes Hanger Insertion

Workshop papers

• Instrumented Learning of Clothes Hanger Insertion
• You’re Pushing My Buttons: Instrumented Learning of Gentle Button Presses
• On the Generalization Capabilities, Design Choices and Limitations of Keypoint Imitation Learning

To top it off, Raman’s workshop paper was nominated for its workshop’s best paper award. Congratulations to everyone involved!