The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) was held in Vienna, Austria, from June 1 to 5. As the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), ICRA brought together leading researchers, industry experts, and young scholars from the global robotics and automation community to conduct in-depth exchanges on cutting-edge technologies, innovative applications, and future development trends, jointly promoting the continuous advancement and practical application of robotics technology.

At the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC), held concurrently with the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), the MIL-Cloud team, guided by Professor Yang Cong and Teacher Yu Ren from the School of Automation, won the runner-up award in the CloudGripper track. A total of five teams participated in this track, focusing on cloud-based robotic planar pushing and deformable linear object shape control tasks. Team members Shenghan Huang, Mingwei Ma, Jiahao Long, and Jiawei Weng ranked second in the final evaluation through algorithm design, visual perception, and robotic manipulation strategies.

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Introduction to the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of South China University of Technology:

The participating team was formed by the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of the School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology. The laboratory is led by Professor Yang Cong, and its research covers robot servo control and intelligent decision-making, machine learning, medical intelligence, and other fields. Its research achievements have been published many times in top conferences and journals in robotics and computer vision, and the laboratory has undertaken multiple national-level research projects. The laboratory has won awards in top robotics competitions for three consecutive years, including first place in the 2023 ICRA Virtual Manipulation Challenge (Assembly), fourth place in the 2024 ICRA RGMC (Cloth Competition), and first place in the 2025 ICRA RGMC (Simulation Sorting).

Laboratory homepage:机器智能实验室https://www2.scut.edu.cn/MachineIntelligenceLab/main.htm