[iva] [meetings] [CfP] Call-for-Paper: IROS 2025 Half-Day Workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO 2025)

[gaoyixing at jlu.edu.cn]

IROS 2025 Half-Day Workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO 2025)

October 20, 2025 – Hangzhou, China
Website: https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/
Submission deadline: September 20, 2025

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Overview:

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.

 

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Structure of the event:

 

Date: Monday morning, October 20, 2025
Location: Hangzhou, China (as part of IROS 2025)

 

Program:
08:30 – Welcome and foreword

Session 1: Machine Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation (DOM)
08:35 – Shuran Song: Lessons Learned from Deformable Object Manipulation
08:55 – Yan Wu: Tactile-Guided Physical Intelligence on Soft Object Manipulation
09:15 – Q&A

Session 2: Human-Centered and Assistive Deformable Object Manipulation
09:25 – Yiannis Demiris: Human-Centred Deformable Object Manipulation
09:45 – Fan Zhang: General Manipulation for Assistive Robotics
10:05 – Q&A

Session 3: Posters
10:15 – Poster session
10:35 – Coffee break

Session 4: Modeling, Simulation, and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation
10:50 – Florian Pokorny: Caging-inspired Approaches to Deformable Object Manipulation
11:10 – Bin Fang: Soft Contact Simulation and Manipulation Learning of Deformable Objects
11:30 – Lijun Han: Modeling and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation in Diverse Tasks
11:50 – Q&A

Session 5: Panel Discussion
12:00 – 12:30 General panel

 

 

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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Foundation models & multi-modal learning
Deformable object modeling (physics-based/data-driven)
Learning from demonstration & teleoperation
Sim2real transfer
Physical simulation & model-based control
Human-robot interaction with soft objects
Assistive & healthcare applications
 

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Submissions:

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.

Submission link: via OpenReview (see workshop website)
Submission deadline: September 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2025

 

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Organizers:

Yixing Gao (Jilin University, China)

Mingrui Yu (Tsinghua University, China)

Jihong Zhu (University of York, United Kingdom)

Zackory Erickson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Julia Borras (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Spain)

Andrej Gams (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

Claire Dune (University of Toulon, France)

Mohammad Alkhatib (CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France)

Youcef Mezouar (CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France)

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Contact:
Yixing Gao – gaoyixing at jlu.edu.cn

Mingrui Yu – ymr20 at mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

 

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Sponsors:
IEEE RAS Working Group on Deformable Object Manipulation
NOKOV

 

We look forward to your contributions and participation at ROMADO 2025!
For updates and submission details, visit:
https://romado-workshop.github.io/ROMADO2025.github.io/

 
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