Dear Friends, I wish to invite you all to contribute to the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025. Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel, and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavour. For IAS-19, we look for papers centered around the theme “Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics”. **/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots Robots for Industry 4.0 Household Robots Humanoid Robots Climbing Robots Outdoor and Field Robots Autonomous Vehicles Healthcare Robots Flying Robots Marine Robots Robot Swarms Biomimetic Robots Long-Term Autonomous Systems Intelligent Machines Cognitive Architectures for Robots Human-Robot-Interaction Software Architectures for Robots Cloud Robotics Robot Vision Tactile Sensing Intelligent Sensors and Systems Neuromorphic Sensing Semantic Modelling Data Fusion and Machine Learning Obstacle Avoidance Localization and SLAM Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Planning Task-Motion Planning Robot Foundation Models Vision and Language Models Robot Simulations Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process, which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. If a paper will be accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting reviewers’ comments and present their paper orally and in presence. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as is customary for IAS conferences. A limited number of authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025. Updates on www.ias-19.org. **/ Planned special sessions 1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction Organisers: Alessandro Umbrico (alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it) Alessandro Carfi (alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it) 2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment Organisers: Antonio Sgorbissa (antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it) Jaeryoung Lee (jaeryounglee@isc.chubu.ac.jp) Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (carmine.recchiuto@dibris.unige.it) Emilia Barakova (e.i.barakova@tue.nl) 3) Marine Robotics Organisers: Giovanni Indiveri (giovanni.indiveri@unige.it) Enrico Simetti (enrico.simetti@unige.it) Francesco Wanderlingh (francesco.wanderlingh@unige.it) 4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision to Language Organisers: Dimitri Ognibene (dimitri.ognibene@unimib.it) Onofrio Gigliotta (onofrio.gigliotta@unina.it) Letizia Marchegiani (letizia.marchegiani@unipr.it) Tom Foulsham (foulsham@essex.ac.uk) Dario Zanca (dario.zanca@fau.de) Edoardo Datteri (edoardo.datteri@unimib.it) 5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence Organisers: Fabio Patrizi (patrizi@diag.uniroma1.it) Luca Iocchi (iocchi@diag.uniroma1.it) Raffaello Camoriano (raffaello.camoriano@polito.it) 6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics Organisers: Fabio Bonsignorio (fabio.bonsignorio@fer.unizg.hr) Enrica Zereik (enrica.zereik@cnr.it) 7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric Technology Organisers: Marco Matarese (marco.matarese@iit.it) Francesco Rea (francesco.rea@iit.it) Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti@iit.it) 8) LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks Organisers: Lorenzo Natale (lorenzo.natale@iit.it) Carmela Calabrese (carmela.calabrese@iit.it) 9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence Organisers: Hyun-Joon Chung Jinung An Soon-Geul Lee Sukhan Lee **/ Paper submission instructions Prospective authors must format their papers in a single-column layout on 21 cm x 29.7 cm A4-size paper according to the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&e=ed7a584b&h=fe37a403&f=y&p=y> In particular, refer to: - instructions for authors: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16 - LaTeX templates: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8 - Overleaf LaTeX templates: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overleaf.com%2Flatex%2Ftemplates%2Fspringer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science%2Fkzwwpvhwnvfj&e=ed7a584b&h=ce6ecb75&f=y&p=y> - MS Word templates: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1 Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references. Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per page. Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected. Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one of the special sessions. **/ Important dates 20/9/2024 > First call for papers 7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions 15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions 31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials 7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission 15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification 15/5/2025 > Papers final submission 30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy **/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan **/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK José Galvan, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Vatican State **/ Organisation - General Chair Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy - Program Chair Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy - Regional Program Chairs Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands **/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors We will soon open a call for sponsors and exhibitors. We are working toward nicely blending the usual scientific tracks of IAS with pitch sessions and events oriented towards innovation and the industry. IAS-19 will feature a dedicated crash course on entrepreneurship, student challenges in which companies may be directly involved, plenary pitch sessions, and an industry forum. More on this soon! -- --------------------------------------------------- Silvia Rossi, PhD University of Naples "Federico II" - ITALY tel: +39 081 679983 - fax: +39 081 679967 email: silvia.rossi@gmail.com http://people.na.infn.it/~srossi