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author Papalia, Alan
Dawson, Charles
Anton, Laurentiu L.
Bayomi, Norhan Magdy
Champenois, Bianca
Cho, Jung-Hoon
Cai, Levi
DelPreto, Joseph
Edwards, Kristen
Githinji, Bilha-Catherine
Hickert, Cameron
Jayawardana, Vindula
Kramer, Matthew
Raghavan, Shreyaa
Russell, David
Salimi, Shide
Shi, Jingnan
Sudhakar, Soumya
Wang, Yanwei
Wang, Shouyi
Carlone, Luca
Kumar, Vijay
Rus, Daniela
Fernandez, John E.
Wu, Cathy
Kantor, George
Young, Derek
Singh, Hanumant
author_facet Papalia, Alan
Dawson, Charles
Anton, Laurentiu L.
Bayomi, Norhan Magdy
Champenois, Bianca
Cho, Jung-Hoon
Cai, Levi
DelPreto, Joseph
Edwards, Kristen
Githinji, Bilha-Catherine
Hickert, Cameron
Jayawardana, Vindula
Kramer, Matthew
Raghavan, Shreyaa
Russell, David
Salimi, Shide
Shi, Jingnan
Sudhakar, Soumya
Wang, Yanwei
Wang, Shouyi
Carlone, Luca
Kumar, Vijay
Rus, Daniela
Fernandez, John E.
Wu, Cathy
Kantor, George
Young, Derek
Singh, Hanumant
contents Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for climate-relevant robotics research, identifying high-impact opportunities for collaboration between roboticists and experts across climate domains such as energy, the built environment, transportation, industry, land use, and Earth sciences. These applications include problems such as energy systems optimization, construction, precision agriculture, building envelope retrofits, autonomous trucking, and large-scale environmental monitoring. Critically, we include opportunities to apply not only physical robots but also the broader robotics toolkit - including planning, perception, control, and estimation algorithms - to climate-relevant problems. A central goal of this roadmap is to inspire new research directions and collaboration by highlighting specific, actionable problems at the intersection of robotics and climate. This work represents a collaboration between robotics researchers and domain experts in various climate disciplines, and it serves as an invitation to the robotics community to bring their expertise to bear on urgent climate priorities.
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spellingShingle A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Papalia, Alan
Dawson, Charles
Anton, Laurentiu L.
Bayomi, Norhan Magdy
Champenois, Bianca
Cho, Jung-Hoon
Cai, Levi
DelPreto, Joseph
Edwards, Kristen
Githinji, Bilha-Catherine
Hickert, Cameron
Jayawardana, Vindula
Kramer, Matthew
Raghavan, Shreyaa
Russell, David
Salimi, Shide
Shi, Jingnan
Sudhakar, Soumya
Wang, Yanwei
Wang, Shouyi
Carlone, Luca
Kumar, Vijay
Rus, Daniela
Fernandez, John E.
Wu, Cathy
Kantor, George
Young, Derek
Singh, Hanumant
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for climate-relevant robotics research, identifying high-impact opportunities for collaboration between roboticists and experts across climate domains such as energy, the built environment, transportation, industry, land use, and Earth sciences. These applications include problems such as energy systems optimization, construction, precision agriculture, building envelope retrofits, autonomous trucking, and large-scale environmental monitoring. Critically, we include opportunities to apply not only physical robots but also the broader robotics toolkit - including planning, perception, control, and estimation algorithms - to climate-relevant problems. A central goal of this roadmap is to inspire new research directions and collaboration by highlighting specific, actionable problems at the intersection of robotics and climate. This work represents a collaboration between robotics researchers and domain experts in various climate disciplines, and it serves as an invitation to the robotics community to bring their expertise to bear on urgent climate priorities.
title A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11623