IEEE RAM - Arts & Robotics Special Issue

This special issue invites both technical papers ↗ and column papers ↗ — column papers can include pieces of visual robotic arts with comments, and other forms of media not suitable for a print format can be hosted by IEEE XPlore.

Timeline

Aug 1, 2025

Deadline for manuscript submission

Nov 1, 2025

First decision to authors

Dec 15, 2025

Deadline for revised manuscript

Feb 1, 2026

Final decision

Mar 10, 2026

Final manuscript upload

Jun 10, 2026

Special Issue Publication

Topics

AI-Generated Art

Arts-Driven R&D & Education

Co-Creation With Robotics

Emotional & Expressive Robots

Ethics & Society

Expressive Robotics

Historical Perspectives

Human-Robot Co-creativity

Installation Art X Robotics

Kinetic & Mobile Art

Traditional Art X Robotics

Wearables & Performance

Guest Editors

Jean H. Oh

Carnegie Mellon University

Robot intelligence, creative robotics, social robot navigation

jeanoh@cmu.edu

Ken Goldberg

UC Berkeley

Art and robot manipulation

goldberg@berkeley.edu

Perla Maiolino

University of Oxford

Soft robotics, tactile sensing technologies

perla.maiolino@eng.ox.ac.uk

James M. Bern

Williams College

Soft robotics, VR, computer graphics

jmb15@williams.edu

Hugo Rodrigue

Sungkyunkwan University

Soft robotics, actuation, sensing

rodrigue@skku.edu

Josie A. E. Hughes

EPFL

Soft robotics, robot design, manipulation

josie.hughes@epfl.ch