icra-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a robotics project belongs at ICRA, choosing between a direct ICRA submission and the RA-L journal route with conference presentation, or re-routing to IROS, RSS, CoRL, T-RO, HRI, or CASE based on contribution type, evidence shape, and the embodiment test.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icra-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ICRA Topic Selection Route a robotics project before any formatting work begins. ICRA — the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) — is the broadest and largest robotics deadline of the year, but "broad" does not mean "anything with a robot picture." This skill runs two decisions in order: (1) is the contribution ICRA-shaped at all, and (2) if yes, should it travel as a direct conference paper or as an RA-L journal paper carrying a conference-presentation option. ## The embodiment test Ask what breaks if the physical robot is deleted from the paper. - If the answer is "nothing — the method is really about images, language, or generic optimization," ICRA reviewers will say so. Route to a vision, ML, or optimization venue and cite robotics as an application. - If the answer is "the whole contribution — the method exists because of contact, dynamics, sensing noise, actuation limits, real-time constraints, or task resets," the project is in ICRA territory. - Middle cases (learning method evaluated only in simulation) can survive at ICRA, but the burden shifts to the experiments plan; see `icr
- The embodiment test
- Fit by contribution type
- Direct ICRA vs RA-L with conference presentation
- Quick routing script
- Lighter tracks at the same conference
- Anti-patterns that waste a cycle
- Output format
What does the icra-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a robotics project belongs at ICRA, choosing between a direct ICRA submission and the RA-L journal route with conference presentation, or re-routing to IROS, RSS, CoRL, T-RO, HRI, or CASE based on contribution type, evidence shape, and the embodiment test.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icra-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.