Events

Reproducible Benchmarking of Robotic Grasping and Manipulation - IROS 2026

27 September, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Andrea Cavallaro, Changjae Oh, and Alessio Xompero are co-organisers of the international workshop that will be held during the 2026 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) - ICRA 2026

1-5 June, Vienna, Austria
Andrea Cavallaro, Changjae Oh, and Alessio Xompero co-organised the competition, leading the Human-to-Robot Handovers track. Competition was held during the 2026 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.



Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation - IROS 2025

19-25 October 2025, Hangzhou, China
Andrea Cavallaro, Alessio Xompero, and Changjae Oh co-organised the international workshop that was held during the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

BMVA Symposium on Digital Humans

28 May 2025, London, UK
Yik Lung Pang and Alessio Xompero presented the publication Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover as a poster at the One Day Meeting event series of the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition.

10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) - ICRA 2025

19-22 May, Atlanta, USA
Andrea Cavallaro, Changjae Oh, and Alessio Xompero co-organised the competition, leading the Human-to-Robot Handovers track. Competition was held during the 2025 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation - IROS 2024

15 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Andrea Cavallaro and Alessio Xompero co-organised the international workshop that was held during the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition - ICRA 2024

13-16 May, Yokohama, Japan
Andrea Cavallaro and Alessio Xompero co-organised the competition, leading the CORSMAL Human-to-Robot Handovers track. Competition held during the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

2022 Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics Workshop

27 October 2022, Kyoto, Japan
Andrea Cavallaro presented the project CORSMAL through the talk Multi-modal sensing for physical human-robot interaction at the IROS 2022 workshop dedicated to developing computational approaches for natural and social human-robot interaction for Assistive Robotics Technology.

The 2022 Workshop on the CORSMAL Challenge

23 June 2022, Onine
CORSMAL organised a 2-hour virtual workshop on the results of the challenge Audio-visual Object Classification for Human-Robot Collaboration, featureing live presentations, an open discussion with Q&A, and the award of the challenge winner.

CORSMAL Challenge at the 2022 IEEE ICASSP

22-27 May 2022, Singapore
The CORSMAL Challenge: Audio-visual object classification for human-robot collaboration; organised in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing.

CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022

CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022

28-30 March 2022, Online
The event brought together researchers involved in the 52 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 was recognised the CHIST-ERA Open Science Success Story.

2021 Intelligent Sensing Winter School

CORSMAL Challenge at the 2021 Intelligent Sensing Winter School

7-10 December 2021, Online
The CORSMAL challenge was organised in conjuction with the 2021 Intelligent Sensing Winter School, and participants completed one of the challenge task using audio, visual or multimodal data.

2nd NAVER LABS Europe International Workshop on AI for Robotics

29-30 November 2021, Online
Andrea Cavallaro presented the CORSMAL project and Alessio Xompero presented the poster Towards safe human-to-robot handovers of unknown containers. The workshop brought 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.


Object Recognition and Manipulation (ORMR)

CHIST-ERA Joint Workshop (online)
@ International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2021)

CHIST-ERA Joint Workshop on Object Recognition and Manipulation (ORMR)

24 September 2021, Online
Andrea Cavallaro presented the CORSMAL project at the workshop, organised in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2021). Coordinators of the CHIST-ERA projects related to the call on Object Recognition and Manipulation (ORMR) presented objectives, progress, and outcomes of their work during the event, followed by a discussion between the speakers.


Workshop on Smart Robotic Systems for Advanced Manufacturing Industries

Smart Robotic Systems for Advanced Manufacturing Industries at CASE 2021

23 August 2021, Lyon, France
Véronique Perdereau presented the CORSMAL project at the workshop held in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE 17thInternational Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021). The workshop focused on techniques and achievements in the domains of interaction and collaboration between humans and robots or smart systems.

CHIST-ERA Seminars 2021

CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2021

12-14 April 2021, Online
Progress and outcomes of the CORSMAL project presented at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2021, an event that 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.

EECS Research Days 2020

QMUL EECS Research Week 2020

23-27 November 2020, Online
CORSMAL research on multi-view shape estimation of transparent containers was presented at the EECS Research Week 2020, organised by Queen Mary University of London.

The 2020 CORSMAL Challenge at ICPR

CORSMAL Challenge at ICPR 2021

10-15 January 2021, Online
The CORSMAL Challenge: Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics; organised in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).

2020 Intelligent Sensing Summer School

CORSMAL Challenge at the 2020 Intelligent Sensing Summer School

1-4 September 2020, Online
The CORSMAL Challenge on Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics was organised in conjuction with the 2020 Intelligent Sensing Summer School, an online event focused on AI for Multimodal data, Audio and Vision.

The 2020 CORSMAL Challenge at ICME

Workshop on Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics

6-10 July 2020, Online
Workshop organised in conjunction with the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, with presentation of the CORSMAL Challenge focusing on Multi-modal fusion and learning for robotics and featuring talks from experts.

CHIST-ERA Workshop on Open Science in Transnational Research

CHIST-ERA Workshop on Open Science in Transnational Research

6 March 2020, Bern, Switzerland
The event, organised by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), brought together Open Science experts and CHIST-ERA representatives to assess current practices, the status of Open Science policies in the European landscape, and the platforms and tools that are available for researchers.

1st CORSMAL Challenge

The 1st CORSMAL Challenge

2-6 September 2019, London, UK
The 1st CORSMAL challenge at the 2019 Intelligent Sensing Summer School, organised by the Centre for Intelligent Sensing within Queen Mary University of London.

CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2019

CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2019

3-4 of April 2019, Bucharest, Romania
The CORSMAL project was presented at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2019, an event that brought together researchers involved in CHIST-ERA funded projects and representatives of the research funding organisations.