{"id":7801,"date":"2026-07-20T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:20:36","slug":"dr-aliasghar-arab-crest-research-associate-hosts-connected-robots-workshop-and-presents-at-innovation-stage-at-2026-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?p=7801","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Aliasghar Arab, CREST Research Associate, Hosts Connected-Robots Workshop and Presents at Innovation Stage at 2026 ICRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Aliasghar Arab, Research Associate at the CUNY CREST Institute<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> participated in the 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held in Vienna, Austria in June 2026, where he hosted a technical workshop and delivered a presentation at the conference\u2019s Innovation Stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Workshop on Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Arab served as a primary host and organizer of the highly competitive official ICRA <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/connected-robots.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2026 workshop on Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The workshop focused on cloud-orchestrated multi-robot coordination, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) safety systems, and edge computing architectures for real-time autonomy. The session featured invited speakers from academia and industry, including Ken Goldberg, and reached full attendance capacity. The program included technical presentations, panel discussions, and live demonstrations evaluating real-time swarm planning under constrained network conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7800\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7800\" src=\"http:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/icra-2026-29-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/icra-2026-29-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/icra-2026-29.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PC: ICRA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><b>Innovation Stage Presentation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Arab was also invited to present at the ICRA Innovation Stage. His talk, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrom Philosophy Doctorate to Running a Startup: Lessons Learned,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> examined the process of translating academic research into commercial applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The presentation outlined the development of robotic systems from ASAS Labs at the City College of New York into deployable technologies through General Autonomy. It highlighted approaches to improving safety in autonomous systems, including deterministic verification methods and risk assessment frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Arab\u2019s participation at ICRA 2026 reflects ongoing research and innovation by CREST faculty affiliates in robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems, with applications across academic and industry domains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Aliasghar Arab, Research Associate at the CUNY CREST Institute participated in the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), held in Vienna, Austria in June 2026, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_elementor_edit_mode":"","_elementor_template_type":"","_elementor_data":"","_elementor_page_settings":null},"categories":[13,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlight","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}