CLAWAR 2025 is the 28th issue of the International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. The conference will be organized in collaboration with the Shenzhen Technology University, China, and held within the premises of the university, during 05 – 07 September 2025. The technical programme of CLAWAR 2025 will feature plenary, regular and special/invited sessions. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series and indexed in Scopus, EI and Web of Science.

Submission Guidelines

Original contributions are invited in the general area of mobile robotics, covering climbing, walking, flying robots with assistance and service provided to humans and machines. The conference will cover analysis (modelling and simulation) techniques, design approaches, and practical applications and realisations of robotic systems. Support technologies for realisation of such systems, associated economic, ethical and social considerations are integral part of the conference theme. A non-exhaustive list of topics and activities can be found in the conference web-site.

List of Topics

• Agricultural robots
• Assistive robots
• Autonomous robots
• Biologically-inspired systems and solutions
• Biomedical robots
• Construction
• Co-operative robot systems
• Domestic robots
• Education
• Emergency & rescue operations
• Entertainment
• Flexible manoeuvring systems
• Flexible manipulators
• Flying robots
• Guidance and navigation
• Helping the elderly and the disabled
• Human-Machine/ Human-Robot interaction
• Hybrid locomotion
• Innovative actuators and power supplies
• Innovative design of CLAWAR
• Innovative sensors and sensor networks
• Inspection
• Intelligence and learning for CLAWAR
• Legged locomotion
• Manipulation and gripping
• Manufacturing
• Medical robotics
• Micro and nano robots
• Modelling and simulation
• Nature-inspired systems and solutions
• Perception and situation awareness
• Performing and creative arts robots
• Personal care robots
• Petrochemical applications
• Planetary exploration
• Planning and control
• Positioning and localisation
• Reconnaissance
• Rehabilitation and function restoration
• Robot ethics
• Robot safety
• Rural robots
• Security
• Sensor fusion
• Service robots
• Robot regulation and standardisation
• Social robots
• Space robots
• Sport and exercise robots
• Surveillance
• Swarm robotics
• Tele-operated robots
• Tele-presence and virtual reality
• Underwater and sea robotics
• Wheeled locomotion

Committees

International Advisory Committee

• Gurvinder S Virk (Endoenergy, UK)

• Jiansheng Dai (Sustech, China)

• Jianwei Zhang (Hamburg Uni, Germany)

• Yaochu Jin (Westlake Uni, China)

• Shugen Ma (HKUST, China)

• Tamim Asfour (KIT, Germany)

• Qiang Huang (BIT, China)

• Zhidong Wang (Chiba Inst of Tech, Japan)

• Gordon Cheng (TUM, Germany)

• Chi Zhu (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

General Chairs

• Qiang Li (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

• Ming Xie (Nanyang Tech Uni, Singapore)

• Mohammad Osman Tokhi (LSBU, UK)

Program Committee Chairs

• Chenglong Fu (SUSTech, China)

• Zhangguo Yu (BIT, China)

• Peng Li (HIT (Shenzhen, China)

• Manuel F. Silva (ISEP & INESCTEC, PT)

Special/Workshop Session Chairs

• Qifeng Zhang (SIA, CAS, China)

• Khaled M. Goher (Sultan Qaboos Uni, Oman)

• Qiuguo Zhu (Zhejiang Uni, China)

• Zhibin Li (UCL, UK)

• Haifei Zhu (GDUT, China)

• Enrico Mingo Hoffman (INRIA, France)

Publicity Chairs

• Bin Fang (BUPT, China)

• Abdullah Almeshal (CTS, Kuwait)

• Gabriela Gallegos Garrido (LSBU, UK)

• Mo Liu (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

• Shaolong Kuang (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

• Gan Ma (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

• Yang Zhang (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

Industrial Alignment Chairs

• Jichao Jiao (UBTECH, China)

• Limin Zeng (Zhejiang Uni, China)

• Wei Wang (J Robotics & Applications, China)

Award Chairs

• Zengguang Hou (Inst Automation, CAS, CN)

• Yili Fu (HIT, China)

• Yan Wu (A*STAR, Singapore)

Web-site Chairs

• Abdullah Almeshal (CTS, Kuwait)

• Louie Webb (London South Bank Uni, UK)

• Lijun Sun (Shenzhen Tech Uni, China)

Publication

CLAWAR 2025 proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series and indexed in Scopus, EI and Web of Science.

Venue

The conference will be organized in collaboration with the Shenzhen Technology University, China, and held within the premises of the university, during 05 – 07 September 2025.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to clawar2025@stzu.edu.cn.