USC at ICRA 2026 (Credit: Dall-E)
USC researchers will present 32 papers at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), with research spanning dexterous manipulation, safe autonomous navigation, vision-language models for robot learning, robots in space and bio-inspired robots.
Held June 1–5 in Vienna, Austria, ICRA is one of the world’s leading and largest conferences in robotics and automation, bringing together researchers, engineers and industry leaders to share advances in artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, human-robot interaction and emerging robotics technologies.
As a growing leader in robotics research and AI innovation, USC has faculty and students from labs across the university attending, including researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Astronautical Engineering, and USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
USC researchers will present papers across poster, workshop and highly selective oral sessions, as well as lead and deliver talks at various workshops. Yue Wang, assistant professor of computer science, will give an invited talk at the “Beyond Teleoperation: Learning from Diverse Human and Simulation Data” workshop on the final day of the conference. Many faculty members and labs also have multiple papers accepted, including Daniel Seita’s Sensing, Learning and Understanding for Robotic Manipulation (SLURM) Lab, which had seven papers accepted, several of them in collaboration with other USC Viterbi researchers like Gaurav Sukhatme, executive vice dean, director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and AI and incoming interim dean of USC Viterbi’s School of Engineering; Seita is an assistant professor of computer science.
