Submissions

Announcement: Congratulating the Recipients of the Poster and Oral Presentation Awards!

Oral Presentation Winners:

1. Jiawei Liu: Bimanual Microsurgical Workstation with Integrated Optical Coherence Tomography Guidance

2. Jake Kanetis: Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interfaces on the Sciatic Nerve Elicit Sensations in the Foot and Shank

Poster Presentation Winners:

1. Aparajito Saha: PhyGS: Physically-Grounded Controllable Scene Generation

2. Olivia Ma: Energy-Aware Trajectory Planning for a Tailsitter UAV using Hybrid A* and Dubins Velocity Optimization

Call for Papers – Michigan Robotics Research Symposium (ROBOSYM 2026)

We invite all University of Michigan Robotic Department graduate students to submit their original OR past research for poster and oral presentations. The symposium will take place on Wednesday May 6th, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM in the Ford Robotics Building Atrium. 

Submission Requirements:

• Eligibility: Open only to graduate students in or associated with the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan

• Three tracks for submission: Poster-only (paper recommended but not required), 3 minute lightning talks (short-form papers accepted) and 10 minute oral presentations

• 8 page limit including references, appendices, etc...

Create a submission here: Submission Form

Full paper submission deadline: Friday, April 24th, 2026

Talks will be judged by a panel of three Robotics Advisory Board members, and the top two submissions in each oral track will be awarded $100

This is a great opportunity to share your research, gain recognition, and connect with fellow robotics researchers at U-M.

For more details and submission guidelines, contact the ROBOSYM organizing committee.

Instructions: Authors and Submission Process

All papers must be in English and submitted electronically in PDF format to this form. To ensure formatting compliance we recommend using the IEEE Article Template Selector with "Conference" Publication Type, "Original Research" Article Type, and your preference of "LaTeX" or "Word".