Agenda

Workshop Schedule

9:00 - 9:10

Muhammad Sunny Nazeer (NUS), Matteo Lo Preti (NUS) and Sizhe Tian (INRIA)

Opening Remarks from the Organisers

Expert Presentations

Leading researchers will deliver concise, engaging talks on the challenges and opportunities in benchmarking simulations, sensing, and control. These sessions will highlight real-world data standardization issues and showcase examples of reproducible evaluation methods.

9:10 - 9:25

Federico Renda (KU)

Sensing and Estimation in Soft Robotics: Do We Need a Better Model or a Better Sensor?

9:25 - 9:40

David Howard (CSIRO)

Introduction to Working Group Activities for Reproducibility in Soft Robotics

9:40 - 9:55

Robert Katzschmann (ETH)

Benchmarking Dexterity and Reproducibility in Real-World Robotic Hand Manipulation

9:55 - 10:10

Liang He (Oxford University)

Human vs. Robotic Function: Learning from Clinical Evaluation for Shared Standards

10:10 - 10:25

Cosimo Della Santina (TU Delft)

KISS: Keep It Simple... Soft Robot! Going for the Dumbest Soft Robot Control Benchmark

10:25 - 10:40

Egidio Falotico (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

TBD

10:40 - 11:10

Coffee Break

Early-Career Researcher Lightening Talks

A select group of early-career researchers will deliver short presentations sharing the challenges they have faced when trying to reproduce or build upon published work—and how they believe future publications should include better supplementary materials to truly enable reproducible research.

11:10 - 11:15

Yasmin Tauqeer Ansari - PostDoc at IIT

Towards the Benchmarking of Embodied Sensors for Pose Tracking in Octopus-inspired Robotic Arms

11:15 - 11:20

Peiyi Wang - PostDoc at NUS

Geometric Variable Strain Model for Rod-driven Soft Continuum Arms

11:20 - 11:25

Yuchen Sun - PhD Student at NUS

A Computational Modeling Approach to Muscle Activation-driven Biomechanics

11:25 - 11:30

Adam Zhou - Head of Product at OpenMind

OM1 - An Open-source, Modular, and Agnostic Runtime for all Robots

Focused Panel Discussion

Speakers and invited early-career researchers will take the stage to discuss practical strategies for normalizing reproducible research in soft robotics. The panel, moderated by the organizers, will focus on steering the conversation toward concrete, actionable recommendations for benchmarking practices in the field.

Immediately following this session, the floor will open for attendees to pose questions directly to all panelists. The session will conclude with closing remarks from the organizers.

11:30 - 12:30

Focused Discussion with Speakers and Invited Youngsters

Senior Panelists: Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Federico Renda (KU), David Howard (CSIRO), Robert Katzschmann (ETH), Liang He (Oxford), Cosimo Della Santina (TU Delft), Egidio Falotico (SSSA), and Josie Hughes (EPFL)

Young Panelists: Yasmin Tauqeer Ansari (IIT) and Mike Yan Michelis (ETH).

Moderators: Muhammad Sunny Nazeer, Matteo Lo Preti, and Sizhe Tian

12:30 - 12:40

Open Questions by Attendees

12:40 - 12:45

Closing Remarks

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