ICRA 2027 — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
📅 Monday, 24 May 2027 → Friday, 28 May 2027 in 312 days
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COEX, Seoul, 
South Korea
ICRA 2027 — the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. May 24-28, 2027 in Seoul, South Korea. Largest annual robotics conference globally — 7,000+ attendees, 4,500+ papers submitted. Peer-reviewed program spans manipulation, locomotion, planning, perception, learning, HRI. Major industry footprint.
ICRA — the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — is the largest and most prestigious robotics conference in the world, and the 2027 edition is held in South Korea. With IROS, it anchors the global robotics calendar and is the primary venue where the field's research is presented.
On the programme
ICRA's enormous technical programme spans manipulation, mobile and legged locomotion, aerial and field robotics, perception and state estimation, motion planning and control, medical and surgical robotics, and the learning-based methods now woven through nearly every track. Keynotes, workshops and tutorials, competitions and a major industry exhibition round out the week.
Where it sits in today's AI
ICRA is where the embodied-AI revolution is being written. The foundation-model paradigm that transformed language and vision has crossed into robotics through vision-language-action models, learned manipulation and locomotion policies, large-scale simulation, and cross-embodiment datasets — and the surge of investment in humanoids and general-purpose robots has made this community one of the most consequential in all of AI. For roboticists, ML researchers and the companies commercialising automation, ICRA is the definitive state-of-the-art record, the field's largest recruiting event, and the clearest annual signal of how fast robots are moving from controlled demos toward real-world work.
