Geometric Representations in Robotics

2nd Workshop on Geometric-Aware Representations: Structured priors, metrics, constraints, and groundings for Manipulation

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Important Dates

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• Call for Participation Opens: TBD 2026
• Submission Deadline: TBD 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: TBD 2026
• Camera-ready Submission: TBD 2026

Recent advances in robotic manipulation have enabled increasingly tight integration between perception, planning, learning, and control. Despite this progress, the role of geometric information — such as representations, structures, metrics, priors, and constraints — remains fragmented across these subareas. While geometry is fundamental to reasoning about objects, modelling contacts, and physical interactions, it is often treated as an implementation detail rather than as a unifying framework for manipulation.

This workshop is the second edition of our series on geometric-aware representations (the first was held at ICRA 2023, attracting 120+ participants). It shifts the focus toward the role of geometric structure across the full manipulation stack: sensing and state estimation, learning and latent representations, planning and optimization, and control under contact and geometric constraints.

Topics covered include:

• Geometric priors and groundings for sensing & state estimation
• Structure-preserving learning and manifold-valued representations
• Geometry-aware planning, optimization, and control
• Geometric world models, affordances, and generative representations
• Equivariant models and symmetry-aware perception-to-action mappings
• Contact-rich manipulation with geometric constraints
• Tactile sensing and physically grounded perception
• Geometric mechanics and whole-body manipulation

We invite academic and industry participants to join a dynamic program of talks, panels, poster sessions, and Geometric Representation Interdisciplinary Impact Clinics.

👉 Explore the Program, Invited Speakers, Call for Papers, and Organizers!