According to the ICRA 2018 General Chair, Peter Corke, the Multi-Robot Systems keyword, the introduction of which was promoted by the MRS TC 2 years ago, was ranked in the top 6 among all the 2018 ICRA submissions. This is an index of the liveness and importance of our field, All the more so given the fact that the other top ranked keywords are very popular and established topics such as learning, planning, localization, and SLAM.
Source: https://icra2018.org/