IROS 2025 Half-Day Workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO 2025)<o:p></o:p> October 20, 2025 – Hangzhou, China Website: <a href="https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/" target="_new" title="原始URL: https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/ 按住Ctrl并单击可访问链接">https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/</a> Extended submission deadline: September 27, 2025 ( <s>September 20, 2025</s>)<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Overview:<o:p></o:p> From folding clothes to manipulating food or surgical tissues, many objects robots need to interact with are deformable. The ROMADO 2025 workshop will bring together leading researchers to address challenges in modeling, perceiving, and manipulating deformable objects in the real world. The focus is on enabling robots to handle non-rigid materials through an interplay of perception, learning, and control, pushing toward intelligent robotic assistance in everyday and assistive settings.<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Structure of the event:<o:p></o:p> Date: Monday morning, October 20, 2025 Location: Hangzhou, China (as part of IROS 2025)<o:p></o:p> Program: 09:00 – 09:05 Welcome and foreword<o:p></o:p> Session 1: Invited Talks 09:05 – 09:30 Yiannis Demiris: Human-Centred Deformable Object Manipulation 09:30 – 09:55 Fan Zhang: General Manipulation for Assistive Robotics 09:55 – 10:20 Yan Wu: Tactile-Guided Physical Intelligence for Soft Object Manipulation Session 2: Poster Session 10:20 – 10:50 Poster session & Coffee break Session 3: Invited Talks 10:50 – 11:15 Bin Fang: Soft Contact Simulation and Manipulation Learning of Deformable Objects 11:15 – 11:40 Florian Pokorny: Caging-Inspired Approaches to Deformable Object Manipulation 11:40 – 12:05 Lijun Han: Modeling and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation in Diverse Tasks Session 4: Panel Discussion 12:05 – 12:50 General panel discussion<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p> <ul type="disc" style="font-family:SimSun;text-wrap-mode:wrap;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Foundation models & multi-modal learning<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Deformable object modeling (physics-based/data-driven)<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Learning from demonstration & teleoperation<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Sim2real transfer<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Physical simulation & model-based control<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Human-robot interaction with soft objects<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> Assistive & healthcare applications<o:p></o:p> </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;"> </li> </ul> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Submissions:<o:p></o:p> We invite 3-page extended abstracts (excluding references) covering original research, datasets, benchmarks, or applications. Submissions will be reviewed by two experts and selected for interactive poster presentation.<o:p></o:p> Submission link: via <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/IROS/2025/Workshop/ROMADO#tab-your-consoles" target="_blank">OpenReview</a> (see workshop website) Submission deadline: September 27, 2025 ( <s style="font-size:10.5pt;">September 20, 2025 </s>) Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2025 ( <s style="font-size:10.5pt;">September 30, 2025 </s>)<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Organizers:<o:p></o:p> Yixing Gao (Jilin University, China)<o:p></o:p> Mingrui Yu (Tsinghua University, China)<o:p></o:p> Jihong Zhu (University of York, United Kingdom)<o:p></o:p> Zackory Erickson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)<o:p></o:p> Julia Borras (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Spain)<o:p></o:p> Andrej Gams (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)<o:p></o:p> Claire Dune (University of Toulon, France)<o:p></o:p> Mohammad Alkhatib (CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France)<o:p></o:p> Youcef Mezouar (CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France)<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Contact: Yixing Gao – gaoyixing@jlu.edu.cn<o:p></o:p> Mingrui Yu – ymr20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn<o:p></o:p> ================================================<o:p></o:p> Sponsors: IEEE RAS Working Group on Deformable Object Manipulation NOKOV<o:p></o:p> We look forward to your contributions and participation at ROMADO 2025! For updates and submission details, visit: <a href="https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/" target="_new">https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/</a><o:p></o:p>