The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is proud to share all of the ways that GRASP students and faculty are involved with the 2025 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference taking place in Los Angeles, California, from June 21st to 25th, 2025.

Below is a program of all GRASP involvement in RSS 2025:

Saturday, June 21, 2025

8:45 AM to 12:30 PM

HRCM 2025 – Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation

Organizers: Ethan Gordon, Tianyu Li, Nadia Figueroa

8:45 AM to 12:30 PM

1st Workshop on Leveraging Implicit Methods for Aerial Autonomy

Organizers: Yuwei Wu, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Kumar

11:40 AM to 12:00 PM

1st Workshop on Leveraging Implicit Methods for Aerial Autonomy

Keynote Talk: Pratik Chaudhari, “Virtualized Reality, circa 2025”

Sunday, June 22, 2025

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Poster Session (Day 2) – Session 4. Perception

Vysics: Object Reconstruction Under Occlusion by Fusing Vision and Contact-Rich Physics

Bibit Bianchini, Minghan Zhu, Mengti Sun, Bowen Jiang, Camillo Jose Taylor, Michael Posa

Monday, June 23, 2025

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Poster Session (Day 3) – Session 12. Control and Dynamics

Leveling the Playing Field: Carefully Comparing Classical and Learned Controllers for Quadrotor Trajectory Tracking

Pratik Kunapuli, Jake Welde, Dinesh Jayaraman, Vijay Kumar

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Poster Session (Day 4) – Session 15. Navigation

Neural Inertial Odometry from Lie Events

Royina Karegoudra Jayanth, Yinshuang Xu, Evangelos Chatzipantazis, Kostas Daniilidis, Daniel Gehrig

Wednesday, June 24, 2025

8:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Equivariant Systems: Theory and Applications in State Estimation, Artificial Intelligence and Control

Organizer: Jake Welde

Accepted Abstract: “Dynamic-ASM6D: Real-time 6D Object Pose and Shape Estimation via Active Shape Models and ADMM”
Ho Jin Choi, Yi-Hsuan Cheng, Minku Kim (University of Pennsylvania), Nadia Figueroa

8:15 AM to 9:00 AM

Equivariant Systems: Theory and Applications in State Estimation, Artificial Intelligence and Control

Background Lecture: Jake Welde, “Symmetry Primer”

5:00 PM to 5:45 PM

Equivariant Systems: Theory and Applications in State Estimation, Artificial Intelligence and Control

Panel Discussion: Kostas Daniilidis, Nadia Figueroa, David Rosen (Northeastern University), “Equivariance in Artificial Intelligence”

8:00 AM to 6:00 PM

2nd Workshop on Generative Modeling Meets Human-Robot Interaction (GenAI-HRI)

Invited Speaker: Nadia Figueroa

8:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Large Foundation Model for Interactive Robot Learning

Invited Speaker: Jason Ma, “Foundation Model Supervision for Robot Learning”

Test of Time Award

GRASP is honored to share that GRASP faculty member and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Dr. Vijay Kumar, has been awarded RSS 2025’s Test of Time Award for his publication in Robotics: Science and Systems V in 2009, titled “Cooperative Manipulation and Transportation with Aerial Robots“. According to RSS, this award “is given to highest impact papers published at RSS (and potentially journal versions thereof) from at least ten years ago”. After its conference publication, this paper was published in Volume 30 of Autonomous Robots as well.