10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) - ICRA 2025
19-22 May, Atlanta, USA
Andrea Cavallaro, Changjae Oh, and Alessio Xompero are co-organisers of the competition , leading the Human-to-Robot Handovers track. Competition will be held during the 2025 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
[RGMC details] [track details]

Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation - IROS 2024
15 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Andrea Cavallaro and Alessio Xompero are co-organisers of the international workshop that will be held during the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition - ICRA 2024
13-16 May, Yokohama, Japan
Andrea Cavallaro and Alessio Xompero are co-organisers of the competition and leading the CORSMAL Human-to-Robot Handovers sub-track. Competition held during the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Workshop
Workshop on identifying the preconditions and requirements to develop an open-source ecosystem that provides open-source assets for HRI benchmarking and comparison, aiming to determine the needs and wants of HRI researchers. Andrea Cavallaro will present CORSMAL through the talk Benchmarking Human-Robot Handovers.
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ARQ-Robotics Centre Research Day 2022
Event organised by the Centre for Advanced Robotics (ARQ) at Queen Mary University of London on 6 December 2022, where researchers from QMUL presented their works related to Robotics. The project CORSMAL and its achievements were presented.
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2022 Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics Workshop
Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE IROS 2022, dedicated to developing computational approaches for natural and social human-robot interaction for Assistive Robotics Technology. Andrea Cavallaro presented the project CORSMAL through the talk Multi-modal sensing for physical human-robot interaction.
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International Symposium on Robotics Research
Robotics for society and its benefits to humans at the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), hosted in Geneva, Switzerland, September 25-30, 2022. ISRR is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and by the US National Science Foundation. Aude Billard is among the main organisers of the symposium.
[details] [registration]

IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning
Achievements of the project CORSMAL are demonstrated at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022), hosted in Queen Mary University of London, 12-15 September 2022.
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The 2022 Workshop on the CORSMAL Challenge
CORSMAL organise a 2-hour virtual workshop on the results of the challenge Audio-visual Object Classification for Human-Robot Collaboration, 23 June 2022 at 12pm BST. The workshop features live presentations by the authors of the accepted papers at ICASSP 2022, an open discussion with Q&A, and the award of the challenge winner.
[programme] [registration] [youtube]

CORSMAL Challenge at the 2022 IEEE ICASSP
The CORSMAL Challenge: Audio-visual object classification for human-robot collaboration; organised in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE IInternational Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, 22-27 May 2022.
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CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022
The CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022 will be organised online on March 28-30, bringing together researchers involved in the 52 ongoing CHIST-ERA funded projects and representatives of the respective research funding organisations to promote exchanges between the projects and to formulate the future challenges of their research topics.
CORSMAL will have two presentation slots: one as CHIST-ERA Open Science Success Story on 28 March; and one as project review presentation on 29 March.
[details] [CORSMAL presentation video] [Project review slides]

CORSMAL Challenge at the 2021 Intelligent Sensing Winter School
The 2021 Intelligent Sensing Winter School is an online event focused on AI for sound perception, AI for visual perception, AI for multimodal perception, 7-10 December 2021. The CORSMAL challenge will see participants complete a task using audio, visual or multimodal data.
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2nd NAVER LABS Europe International Workshop on AI for Robotics
Workshop that brings together researchers and experts from different AI and Robotics disciplines to discuss current and future directions of how AI can help to solve the biggest challenges of real-world robotics applications such as understanding and navigating complex dynamic environments, interacting with humans and learning to accomplish tasks autonomously. The event is organised online on 29th and 30th November 2021. Andrea Cavallaro presents the CORSMAL project and Alessio Xompero presents the poster on towards safe human-to-robot handovers of unknown containers.
[details] [poster] [paper]

Object Recognition and Manipulation (ORMR) - CHIST-ERA Joint Workshop 2021
Workshop in conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2021) on CHIST-ERA projects related to the call on Object Recognition and Manipulation (ORMR). The event is organised online on 24 September 2021. Project coordinators will present objectives, progress, and outcomes of their work during the event, followed by a discussion between the speakers. Andrea Cavallaro presented the CORSMAL project.
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Proximity Perception in Robotics at IROS 2021
Workshop in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021) on the open questions on safety-related applications involving proximity and tactile systems and sim-to-real learning, respectively. Kaspar Althoefer is among the main organisers of the workshop.
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Smart Robotic Systems for Advanced Manufacturing Industries at CASE 2021
Workshop held in Lyon, France, on 23 August in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021) on current techniques and achievements in the domains of interaction and collaboration between humans and robots or smart systems. Véronique Perdereau presented the CORSMAL project.
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CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2021
Progress and outcomes of the CORSMAL project presented at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2021, organised online on 12-14 April. The event brought together researchers involved in CHIST-ERA funded projects and representatives of the research funding organisations, and the main objective is to promote exchanges between the projects and to facilitate the follow-up of the projects by the funders and the review experts.
[details] [CORSMAL presentation]

QMUL EECS Research Week 2020
CORSMAL research on multi-view shape estimation of transparent containers was presented at the EECS Research Week 2020, organised online on 23-27 November by Queen Mary University of London. The event was an exciting opportunity for PhD students and academics to showcase their innovative and groundbreaking research.
[details] [CORSMAL presentation] [CORSMAL video]

CORSMAL Challenge at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition
The CORSMAL Challenge: Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics; organised in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, 10-15 January 2021.
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CORSMAL Challenge at the 2020 Intelligent Sensing Summer School
CORSMAL challenge at the 2020 Intelligent Sensing Summer School, an online event focused on AI for Multimodal data, Audio and Vision, 1-4 September 2020.
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The CORSMAL Challenge 2020: Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics
The CORSMAL Challenge: Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics; organised in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2020, London, 6-10 July 2020.
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CHIST-ERA Workshop on Open Science in Transnational Research 2020
The CORSMAL project was presented at the CHIST-ERA Workshop on Open Science in Transnational Research 2020, organised by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern (Switzerland) on Friday March 6, 2020. An event that brought together Open Science experts and CHIST-ERA representatives to assess current practices, the status of Open Science policies in the European landscape as well as the platforms and tools that are available for researchers.
[details] [CORSMAL presentation]

IET QMUL Children's Christmas Lecture 2019
The main objectives of the CORSMAL project were presented at the IET QMUL Children's Christmas Lecture 2019, London, UK, 11 December 2019.
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EECS Research Open Day 2019
Demonstrations of the CORSMAL project's research were presented during the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) research open day at QMUL, London, UK, 5 December 2019.
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2019 Intelligent Sensing Summer School: the CORSMAL challenge
The CORSMAL challenge at the Intelligent Sensing Summer School, London, UK, 2-6 September 2019.
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CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2019
The CORSMAL project was presented at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2019, organised in Bucharest (Romania) on 3-4 of April 2019. An event that brought together researchers involved in CHIST-ERA funded projects and representatives of the research funding organisations.
[details] [CORSMAL presentation]