Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth):

  • Submissions Due: February 5, 2025
  • Decision Notification: February 12, 2025
  • Camera Ready Deadline: February 26, 2025
  • Workshop: March 3, 2025

Call for Submissions

This workshop invites submissions related to physical caregiving robots, including but not limited to the below topics.

  • Long-term deployments of physical caregiving robots
  • Generalization of physical caregiving robots across users, robots, environments, and tasks
  • Interfaces for individuals with mobility limitations
  • Simulation and sim-to-real transfer for physical caregiving robots
  • Foundation models for physical caregiving robots
  • Long-horizon task planning for physical caregiving robots
  • Anomaly detection in physical caregiving robots
  • Wearables for physical caregiving robots
  • Multimodal sensing for physical caregiving robots
  • Societal and policy considerations for physical caregiving robots

Submissions can be about work that is in progress, completed, or proposed.

Submissions should be in the form of an extended abstract (2 pages, excluding references).

We also accept full papers that have been accepted recently or are under review at any venue, including HRI 2025.

Every submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the organizing committee.

Submission Details

  • Format: extended abstracts (2 pages, excluding references)
  • For papers that have been accepted or are under review at other venues, we also accept full-length papers
  • Specifications: Must be submitted in PDF format and conform to IEEE Proceedings specifications (see Templates below)
  • Submissions do not need to be anonymized
  • Accepted abstracts are required to have at least one author attend the workshop in-person to present

Templates

Templates are available at this link. Additionally, the IEEE has partnered with Overleaf, and you can start writing directly using this link.

Submission Portal

Submit your work via the OpenReview Submission Portal. Please note that OpenReview policy specifies that “New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.”

Contact

For questions, please reach out to us at: caregivingrobotsworkshop@gmail.com