ICRA Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a Robotics conference. The dataset covers 29 events from 1986-2025.

ICRA 2025 accepted 1,606 papers out of 4,153 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 38.7%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
38.7%
2025: 1,606 accepted / 4,153 submitted
Years Covered
29
1986-2025
Discipline
Robotics
Autonomous Systems & Agents, Computer Vision for Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2025 Atlanta, USA 1,606 4,153 38.7%
2024 Yokohama, Japan 1,760 3,937 44.7%
2023 London, UK 1,345 3,125 43.0% Source: https://staff.aist.go.jp/k.koide/acceptance-rate.html
2022 Philadelphia, USA 1,428 3,263 43.8%
2021 Xi'an, China 1,690 3,877 43.6%
2020 Online, Online 1,277 2,902 44.0% Source: https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ras/conf/fullysponsored/icra/ICRA2020/www.icra2020.org/images/Press/Press_Kit_En.pdf
2019 Montreal, Canada 1,317 2,916 45.2%
2018 Brisbane, Australia 1,056 2,586 40.8%
2017 Singapore, Singapore 939 2,289 41.0%
2016 Stockholm, Sweden 816 2,358 34.6%
2015 Seattle, USA 940 2,280 41.2% Roughly 2280 submitted and 940 accepted. Source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report. ~41% acceptance rate.
2014 Hong Kong, China 1,015 2,090 48.6% Roughly estimated, source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report.
2013 Karlsruhe, Germany 870 2,270 38.3% Roughly estimated, source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report.
2012 Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA 820 2,020 40.6% Roughly estimated, source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report.
2011 Shanghai, China 1,025 1,980 51.8% Roughly estimated, source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report.
2010 Anchorage, USA 853 2,020 42.2% Roughly estimated, source: ICRA 2018 Program Chair Report.
2008 Pasadena, California, USA 661 1,478 44.7%
2007 Rome, Italy 787 1,737 45.3%
2004 New Orleans, USA 858 1,457 58.9%
2003 Taipei, Taiwan, China 714 1,176 60.7%
2002 Washington DC, USA 689 1,172 58.8%
2001 Seoul, Korea 678 1,150 59.0% Over 1150
2000 San Francisco, California, USA 641 1,100 58.3% Near 1,000 submissions.
1999 Detroit, USA 521 835 62.4%
1998 Leuven, Belgium 596 963 61.9%
1997 Albuquerque, USA 574 900 63.8%
1996 Minneapolis, USA 588 910 64.6%
1987 Raleigh, USA 350 583 60.0% About 60% acceptance rate.
1986 San Francisco, California, USA 340 486 70.0% About 70% acceptance rate.

Conference Details

Full Title
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Main Discipline
Autonomous Systems & Agents, Computer Vision for Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
Other Topics
Autonomy for Mobility & Manipulation, Cognitive Robotics, Field Robotics, Human-Centered Robotics & Automation, Humanoids & Animaloids, Localization & Mapping, Logistics, Manipulation and Grasping, Manufacturing, Process & Service Automation, Dual Arm Manipulation, Mechanisms, Design, and Controal, Failure Detection & Recovery, Medical & Rehabilitation, Micro, Nano, & Biomimetic Systems, Multiple & Distributed Systems, Planning & Simulation, Theoretical Foundations, Vision & Sensor-Based Control, Omnidirectional Vision, Sensor Fusion, Visual Tracking, Visual Perception & Learning
Parent Organization
IEEE RAS
Notes
No conference-level note is recorded.

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