ICRA — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

ICRA is the flagship IEEE robotics conference — the largest annual venue for robotics and automation, and (with IROS) the systems-and-hardware counterpart to the ML venues. VLA/manipulation coverage here skews toward real-robot deployment: sensor-grounded policies (force/tactile/audio), efficiency and streaming for onboard inference, RL fine-tuning of continuous-action policies, and practicality benchmarks beyond LIBERO.

Surveys

• ICRA 2026 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (June 2026) — Vienna, June 1–5. 5,088 submissions (record); ~2,820 archival papers + 131 late-breaking. Manipulation/learning is the largest theme (RL 254 · Imitation Learning 197 · Grasping & Manipulation 146 · LfD 133 · Dexterous 75); ≥ 46 papers carry "VLA" in the title. 11 themed clusters with the deployment/sensor emphasis that distinguishes ICRA from the ML-venue VLA wave. See the year index: ICRA 2026.

Related venue surveys

• ICLR 2026 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Apr 2026)
• CVPR 2026 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (June 2026)
• IROS 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Oct 2025)
• NeurIPS 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Dec 2025)
• CoRL 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Sept 2025)

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