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- The workshop will be held on Monday morning, October 20, 2025 in Hangzhou, China!
- We welcome submission of extended abstracts by September 20, 2025! See Call For Abstracts for details.
Scope and Objectives
Imagine homes where intelligent robotic assistants effortlessly manage daily tasks—ranging from organizing laundry to disposing of waste—allowing busy families to reclaim valuable time and providing essential support to elderly individuals with limited mobility. However, realizing this vision presents a fundamental challenge: most household objects that robots must interact with, such as clothing, food, and disposable items, are deformable in nature. The key to unlocking truly helpful domestic robots lies in developing systems capable of intelligently manipulating these non-rigid materials while adapting to human needs and intentions. This workshop focuses on the dynamic relationship between perception, decision-making, and execution in the robotic manipulation of deformable objects. We plan to invite experts from fields such as perception, robotics, and machine learning to discuss and share innovative solutions, driving the advancement of deformable object manipulation technologies for real-world applications.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
- Foundation models and multi-modal learning in deformable object manipulation
- Learning from demonstration and teleoperation
- Sim2real transfer and generalization to novel deformable objects
- Physics-based and data-driven modeling of deformable objects
- Physical simulation of deformable objects
- Model-based planning and control for deformable object manipulation
- Human-robot interaction with deformable objects
- Assistive and healthcare applications of deformable object manipulation
Links to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions of the workshop:
Invited Speakers
Program
| Local Time (UTC+8) |
Other Timezones | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 08:35 |
CET: 02:30 - 02:35 EST: 20:30 - 20:35 (prev) |
Welcome and foreword |
| Session 1: Machine Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation | ||
| 08:35 - 08:55 |
CET: 02:35 - 02:55 EST: 20:35 - 20:55 (prev) |
Shuran Song: Lessons Learned from Deformable Object Manipulation |
| 08:55 - 09:15 |
CET: 02:55 - 03:15 EST: 20:55 - 21:15 (prev) |
Yan Wu: Tactile-Guided Physical Intelligence for Soft Object Manipulation |
| 09:15 - 09:25 |
CET: 03:15 - 03:25 EST: 21:15 - 21:25 (prev) |
Q&A session |
| Session 2: Human-Centered and Assistive Deformable Object Manipulation | ||
| 09:25 - 09:45 |
CET: 03:25 - 03:45 EST: 21:25 - 21:45 (prev) |
Yiannis Demiris: Human-Centred Deformable Object Manipulation |
| 09:45 - 10:05 |
CET: 03:45 - 04:05 EST: 21:45 - 22:05 (prev) |
Fan Zhang: General Manipulation for Assistive Robotics |
| 10:05 - 10:15 |
CET: 04:05 - 04:15 EST: 22:05 - 22:15 (prev) |
Q&A session |
| Session 3: Poster Session | ||
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
CET: 04:15 - 04:35 EST: 22:15 - 22:35 (prev) |
Poster session |
| 10:35 - 10:50 |
CET: 04:35 - 04:50 EST: 22:35 - 22:50 (prev) |
Coffee break |
| Session 4: Modeling, Simulation, and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
CET: 04:50 - 05:10 EST: 22:50 - 23:10 (prev) |
Florian Pokorny: Caging-Inspired Approaches to Deformable Object Manipulation |
| 11:10 - 11:30 |
CET: 05:10 - 05:30 EST: 23:10 - 23:30 (prev) |
Bin Fang: Soft Contact Simulation and Manipulation Learning of Deformable Objects |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
CET: 05:30 - 05:50 EST: 23:30 - 23:50 (prev) |
Lijun Han: Modeling and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation in Diverse Tasks |
| 11:50 - 12:00 |
CET: 05:50 - 06:00 EST: 23:50 - 00:00 |
Q&A session |
| Session 5: Panel Discussion | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
CET: 06:00 - 06:30 EST: 00:00 - 00:30 |
General panel discussion |
Call for Abstracts
We invite submissions to the upcoming edition of the ROMADO Workshop, which focuses on the challenges and progress in deformable object manipulation. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working across robotics, perception, simulation, and machine learning to foster interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.
We solicit extended abstracts up to 3 pages (excluding references and supplementary material). Submissions can include original research, dataset or benchmark design, and applications that bridge the research areas pertinent to this workshop. All submissions will undergo external peer review by two experts, and will be evaluated based on their technical merit and potential contribution to the workshop discussion.
Submissions are managed via OpenReview . All accepted contributions will be presented during the interactive poster sessions.
Submission Information:
- Submission Deadline: September 20, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2025
- Workshop Date: October 20, 2025
Organizers
Mohammad Alkhatib
CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please feel free to reach out to the corresponding organizers:
- Yixing Gao – gaoyixing@jlu.edu.cn
- Mingrui Yu – ymr20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Sponsor
