Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke

Editor

• Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
  
• Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• Associate Editor of Humanoid Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Associate Editor of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Program Committees

• Program Co-Chair: IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, 05/2027
  
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Bologna, Italy, 10/2025 
• Editor, IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, 09/2025
• Area Chair, 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, 08/2025
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 05/2025
  
  
• Editor, IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France, 11/2024
• Senior Program Committee Member, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 10/2024
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10/2024
• Senior Program Committee Member, 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Jeju, Korea, 08/2024
• 27th RoboCup International Symposium, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 07/2024
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, 41st IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 05/2024
  
  
• Editor, IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Austin, TX, USA, 12/2023
• 32nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Heraklion, Greece, 09/2023
• 11th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Coimbra, Portugal, 09/2023
• 26th RoboCup International Symposium, Bordeaux, France, 07/2023
• Senior Program Committee Member, 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Cape Town, South Africa, 08/2023
  
• Associate Editor, 18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-18), Suwon, Korea, 07/2023
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, 40th IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 05/2023
   
  
• Editor, IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, 11/2022
• 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Bristol, UK, 09/2022
• 25th RoboCup International Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, 07/2022
• 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Vienna, Austria, 07/2022
  
• 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17), Zagreb, Croatia, 06/2022
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, 39th IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, 05/2022
   
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, 08/2021
• Associate Editor, 20th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Munich, Germany, 07/2021
• 24th RoboCup International Symposium, online, 06/2021.
• 16th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Singapore, 06/2021
   
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Yokohama, Japan, 07/2020
• Area Chair, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Corvallis, OR, USA, 07/2020
• 24th RoboCup International Symposium, Bordaux, France, 07/2020
• Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 05/2020
• 4th IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC),Taichung, Taiwan, 03/2020

• Associate Editor, 19th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Toronto, Canada, 10/2019
• Program Chair, European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Prague, 09/2019
• Senior Program Commitee Member, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China, 08/2019
• 23rd RoboCup International Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 07/2019
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 05/2019
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, 02/2019


• Program Co-Chair, 18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Beijing, China, 11/2018
• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06/2018.
• 22nd RoboCup International Symposium, Montreal, Canada, 06/2018
• 15th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Baden-Baden, Germany, 06/2018.
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 05/2018
   
  
• Associate Editor, 17th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK, 11/2017
• Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 09/2017
• 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Dortmund, Germany, 09/2017.
• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Cambridge MA, USA, 07/2017
• 21st RoboCup International Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 07/2017
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 05/2017
  
  Earlier program committee activities  

Organizer

• Co-organizer "Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots", IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France 11/2024
  
• Co-organizer "3rd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE 10/2024.
  
• Co-organizer "2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars", International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 06/2023.
  
• Co-organizer Workshop "Toward Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition", Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), New York City, USA, 07/2022
  
• General Chair 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn, 09/2021
• Co-organizer Workshop on Dynamic Legged Locomotion in Realistic Terrains, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 05/2018
• Co-organizer 12th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK, 11/2017
• Co-organizer Workshop on Disaster Response Robots: Design principles and Control for Effective Mobility and Manipulation, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 06/2017
• Co-organizer 11th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Cancun, Mexico, 11/2016
• Co-chair 20th International RoboCup Symposium, Leipzig, 07/2016
• Co-organizer 10th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 14th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, 11/2015
• Co-organizer TRADR Summer School on Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (AMAV), Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 08/2015
• Co-organizer 9th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 14th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Madrid, 11/2014
• League Chair Humanoid League at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, 04/2014.
• Co-organizer 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 13th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Atlanta, 10/2013
• Co-organizer International Summer School on Humanoid Soccer, Bonn, 07/2013
• Co-chair 17th International RoboCup Symposium, Eindhoven, 07/2013
• League Chair Humanoid League at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, 04/2013
• Co-organizer 7th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 12th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Osaka, 11/2012

Invited Talks

• 23.5.2025: Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills (RoboLetics 2.0), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA.
• 5.5.2025: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 27.3.2025: Workshop TeleRobotics 360: Exploring Innovations in Healthcare and Industry, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Stuttgart, Germany.
• 26.3.2025: Workshop (Sustainable) Robots in Public Environments: Advancements and Challenges, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Stuttgart, Germany.
  
• 10.12.2024: ELLIS unConference, Bad Teinach, Germany: "Towards Conscious Service Robots"
  
• 22.11.2024: Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France: "NimbRo Humanoid Robots Winning RoboCup AdultSize Soccer Competitions: Mechatronics, Perception, Control, and Learning"
• 22.11.2024: Workshop Can we build Baymax? Part IX. Learning and Data Collection for Skillful Humanoid, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Humanoid Robots"
  
• 17.10.2024: Forum on Human-Avatars Symbiosis, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE: "Avatar Robots for Assistance in Everyday Environments: From Teleoperation to Autonomous Behavior"
  
• 15.10.2024: Workshop on Benchmarking Autonomous Service Robotics in Real Life, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE: "Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots in RoboCup@Home"
  
• 14.10.2024: Workshop on AI and Robotics for Future Farming, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE: "In-field High-resolution 3D Plant Phenotyping"
  
• 14.10.2024: Workshop on Collecting, Managing and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robot, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE: "Data for Cognitive Service Robots"
  
• 14.10.2024: 3rd International Workshop Horizons of an Extended Robotics Reality (XR-ROB), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE: "From Intuitive Immersive Telepresence Systems to Conscious Service Robots"
  
• 23.9.2024: Keynote, 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Rotterdam, Netherlands: "Towards Conscious Service Robots"
  
• 11.7.2024: Curious Future Insight Conference, Mainz, Germany: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
• 18.6.2024: BMBF/BMWK-Konferenz KI-basierte Robotik (KIRO), Berlin: "Der Weg zum bewussten Serviceroboter"
• 17.5.2024: Workshop "Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation Augmentation: Perception, Telecommunication, and Coordination", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, "The NimbRo Immersive Telepresence System Winning the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned"
• 16.5.2024: Forum "Enhancing Service Robots for Future Homes: Insights and Learnings", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Service Robots"
• 14.5.2024: Forum "The Present and Future of Humanoid Robots", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, "NimbRo Humanoid Robots winning ANA Avatar XPRIZE and RoboCup AdultSize Soccer Competitions"
  
• 14.5.2024: Forum "Teleprecence in Robotics", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, "From Intuitive Immersive Telepresence Systems to Conscious Service Robots"
• 24.11.2023: Plenary Keynote, 6th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal: "From Intuitive Immersive Telepresence Systems to Conscious Service Robots"
• 2.10.2023: Keynote, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA: "From Intuitive Immersive Telepresence Systems to Conscious Service Robots"
  
• 2.6.2023, 2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK: "The NimbRo Immersive Telepresence System Winning the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals"
  
• 15.3.2023, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Odense, Denmark: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 8.12.2022, ShanghAI Lecture: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 28.11.2022, Workshop Can we build Baymax? Part 7: Education and Open Source for Humanoid Robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Okinawa Convention Center, Japan: "NimbRo OP2(X): RoboCup AdultSize winning Open source Humanoid Soccer Robots"
  
• 10.11.2022, IEEE Future Directions Symposium on Telepresence: ANA XPRIZE Winning Team Panel
  
• 6.11.2022, ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals Workshop, Long Beach, CA, USA: "NimbRo Avatar: Intuitive Immersive Telepresence balancing Interaction, Manipulation, and Mobility"
• 27.10.2022, Workshop on Software and Control ​Architectures for Robotics, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan: "Towards Structured Model Learning, Perception and Planning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 13.10.2022, University of Freiburg: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 1.7.2022: Workshop "Toward Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition", Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), New York, USA: "NimbRo Avatar: Intuitive Immersive Telepresence balancing Interaction, Manipulation, and Mobility"
  
• 16.6.2022: Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Robots for Hazardous Decommissioning Tasks, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Zagreb, Croatia: "Autonomous Assistance Functions for Mobile Manipulation Robots and Micro Aerial Vehicles"
• 10.11.2021: EASE & REMARO Fall School, Bremen: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 31.8.2021: Workshop on Resuce Robotics in the Field, 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn: "Autonomous Assistance Functions for Centaur-like Ground Robots and Micro Aerial Vehicles in Disaster Response"
  
• 31.8.2021: Workshop on Agricultural Robotics and Automation, 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn: "High-resolution In-field Crop Scanning"
  
• 19.5.2021: Amazon Research Robotics Symposium: "Learning Structured Scene Modelling for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 23.2.2021: Jahreskonferenz der Plattform Lernende Systeme (PLS), Panel "KI in lebensfeindlichen Umgebungen – Kein Vertrauen ohne Zertifizierung?"
• 26.10.2020, University of Stuttgart: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
• 13.10.2020, TU Dortmund: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
• 22.11.2019, Absolventenkongress, Köln: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter" 
• 29.10.2019, Thementag Künstliche Intelligenz, NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Düsseldorf: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 24.10.2019, Digitaler Rhein, Raketenstation Hombroich: "Kognitive Roboter"
• 11.10.2019, Amazon Research Award Symposium, Boston: "Generalizing Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 26.9.2019, Google X, München: "Perception and Planning for Cognitive Robots"
• 2.9.2019, Workshop on Anticipating Human Behavior, Bonn, "Representation Learning and Activity Prediction from Video"
• 13.5.2019, Bonn Waseda University Day Workshop on Advanced Robotics and AI Technologies: "Perception and Planning for Humanoid Disaster-response Robots"
• 12.4.2019, PhenoRob Seminar, Bonn:  "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots"
• 21.3.2019, Workshop on Aerial Robotics Technologies & Applications, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Bucharest, Romania: "3D Mapping and planning for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles in complex GNSS-denied environments"
• 7.12.2018, French-German Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots (HLR), Munich, Germany: "Flexible Driving-stepping Locomotion and Human-like Manipulation for Disaster Response"
• 9.11.2018, Plenary Keynote IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Beijing, China: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Humanoid Robots in Complex Environments"
• 6.11.2018: Workshop on Humanoid Robotics: Dead-end or Bright Future?, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),Beijing, China: "Humanoid Robots: From Fiction to Reality?"
• 26.10.2018, Amazon Research Awards Fall Symposium (ARA), Boston, MA, USA: "Learning Semantic Perception for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 1.10.2018, IROS 2018 Workshop on Humanoid Robot Falling: Fall Detection, Damage Prevention, and Recovery Actions, Madrid, Spain: "Push Recovery, Fall Survival, and Getting-up of NimbRo Humanoid Soccer Robots"
• 13.6.2018, 9th International Scientific Symposium on Logistics (ISSL), Magdeburg, Keynote: "Semantic Perception for Bin Picking"
  
• 8.6.2018, Center for Management Studies (CMS), Beiratssitzung Digitale Technologien und Innovationen, Bonn: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 25.5.2018, ICRA 2018 Workshop on Dynamic Legged Locomotion in Realistic Terrains, Brisbane, Australia: "Hybrid Driving-Stepping Locomotion in Challenging Environments"
• 21.5.2018, ICRA 2018 Workshop on Advances in Robotic Warehouse Automation, Brisbane, Australia: "Team NimbRo Picking at ARC 2017: Fast Learning Semantic Perception and Coordinating Two Arms"
• 14.3.2018, Workshop on Dexterous Telerobotics Technologies and Applications, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Tampere (Finland): "Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot"
• 13.3.2018, Workshop on Aerial Robotics for Industrial Inspection, Maintenance & Transportation, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Tampere (Finland): "Fast Autonomous Flight Near Structures in Large Indoor Environments"
• 18.1.2018, VDI/VDE Neujahrsseminar Künstliche Intelligenz - Vision und Realität, Deutsches Museum Bonn: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 6.12.2017, 2. VDI-Fachkonferenz Humanoide Roboter, München: "Humanoide Roboter für den Einsatz in menschenfeindlichen Umgebungen"
• 27.11.2017, DGR Days, Bremen: "Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 15.11.2017, The 12th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK: "Winning Humanoid Soccer Robots of Team NimbRo: Mechatronics, Perception, Control, and Learning".
• 13.11.2017, RWTH Aachen University: "Learning Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 11.10.2017, Keynote at 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Shanghai, China: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots in Complex Environments"
• 2.10.2017, Delft Workshop on Robot Learning (DWRL): "Learning Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 26.9.2017, IEEE-RAS Young Professionals Luncheon, IROS, Vancouver, Canada: "Advancing Robotics Research through Robot Competitions and Challenges"
• 5.9.2017, Summer School on Foundations of Robotics and Autonomous Learning (RALSS), Berlin: "Deep Learning of Semantic Perception for Robots"
• 17./18.7.2017, International Summer School on Deep Learning, Bilbao, Spain: "Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks".
• 12.7.2017, VDI-Konferenz Autonome Systeme in Produktion und Logistik, Karlsruhe: "Semantische Wahrnehmung für den Griff in die Kiste"
• 28.6.2017, Machine Intelligence Summit, Amsterdam: "Learning Semantic Environment Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 28.6.2017, Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles Summit, Amsterdam: "3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping and Navigation Planning for Mobile Robots in Complex Environments"
• 20.6.2017, Viszeralchirurgische Tage Bonn, CEASAR: "Vom Gehirn inspiriert: Künstliche Intelligenz durch Deep Learning"
• 2.6.2017, ICRA Workshop on Disaster Response Robots, Singapore: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Locomotion and Manipulation in a Disaster-Response Robot" 
• 29.5.2017, ICRA Warehouse Picking Automation Workshop (WPAW), Singapore: "Data-efficient Deep Learning for RGB-D Object Perception in Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 23.3.2017, Workshop on Robots for Disaster Response, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Edinburgh, UK: "CENTAURO – Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot"
• 19.3.2017, Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE: "MBZIRC Challenge 2 Winner NimbRo", "MBZIRC Grand Challenge Winner NimbRo"
• 21.2.2017, HAP Workshop Big Data Science in Astroparticle Physics, RWTH Aachen: "Spatiotemporal Integration in Recurrent Deep Neural Networks"

Earlier invited talks