Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke

Editor

• Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
  
• Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (until 06/2026)
  
• 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 Commitee Member 41st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Montréal, Canada, 02/2027
  
  
• Editor, IEEE-RAS 25th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),Santa Clara, CA, USA, 12/2026
• Senior Program Committee Member, 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI), Bremen, Germany, 08/2026
• 29th RoboCup International Symposium, Incheon, Korea 07/2026
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, USA, 06/2026
  
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Bologna, Italy, 10/2025; Outstanding SPC Member Award
• 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
  
  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"

Earlier invited talks