Date: Thursday, 10/1/2026; Location: Room 336, David L. Lawrence Convention Center
8:50 - 9:00
Opening Address
Workshop Organizers
9:00 - 9:25
Invited Talk 1
Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter
9:25 - 9:50
Invited Talk 2
Prof. Hannah Stuart
9:50 - 10:15
Invited Talk 3
Prof. Monica Wilhelmus
10:15 - 10:30
Teaser Talks (5 minutes each x 3)
T1. Kyle Johnson
T2. Caleb Polillio
T3. Christian Kazoleas
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break & Interactive Session (Posters + Demos)
D1. Christian Kazoleas
D2. Caleb Polillio
D3. Andrew Wertz
D4. Felipe Borja
P1. Nnamdi Chikere
P2. Christian Kazoleas
P3. Caleb Polillio
P4. Andrew Wertz
P5. Debasish Roy
P6. Nimran Shergill
P7. Gengzhi He
P8. Felipe Borja
P9. Azhang Nazaripouya
11:00 - 11:25
Invited Talk 4: Distributed Feedback Control for Adaptive Gaits of Locomotors
Prof. Tetsuya Iwasaki
11:25 - 11:50
Invited Talk 5
Prof. Tania Morimoto
11:50 - 12:15
Invited Talk 6
Prof. Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
12:15 - 12:35
Teaser Talks (5 minutes each x 4)
T4. Zachary Charlick
T5. Leendert-Jan Ligtenberg
T6. Nemo Yi-Hsuan Hsiao
T7. Aja Mia Carter
12:35 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25
Invited Talk 7: Energy-autonomous robots at insect-scale: water and land
Prof. Florian Hartmann
14:25 - 14:50
Invited Talk 8
Prof. Siyi Xu
14:50 - 15:10
Teaser Talks (5 minutes each x 4)
T8. Andrew Wertz
T9. Grace Slear
T10. Tianyu Wang
T11. Jackson Habala
15:10 - 16:00
Coffee Break & Interactive Session (Posters + Demos)
D5. Zachary Charlick
D6. Ben Gu
D7. Aja Mia Carter
D8. Duncan Andrews
D9. Jackson Habala
D10. Chenyu Zhang
D11. Jumpei Saito
P10. Zachary Charlick
P11. Liyao Chang
P12. Nemo Yi-Hsuan Hsiao
P13. Aja Mia Carter
P14. Tianyu Wang
P15. Ben Gu
P16. Grace Slear
P17. Jackson Habala
P18. Chenyu Zhang
P19. Jumpei Saito
16:00 - 16:25
Invited Talk 9
Prof. Elizabeth Farrell Helbling
16:25 - 16:50
Invited Talk 10
Prof. Baxi Chong
16:50 - 17:20
Panel Discussion
17:20 - 17:30
Announcement of the Awards