Program

9:00-9:10 Welcome and introduction by the organizers

Terrestrial robotics session

9:10 - 9:35 Matthew Spenko Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Harnessing Robotics for Ecological Data Collection: Innovations and Insights from the XPRIZE Rainforest Challenge

9:35 - 10:00 Salua Hamza TU Delft, Netherlands
Drones for Nature Conservation – New Paradigms to Extend Environmental Monitoring Missions

Arctic robotics session

10:00 - 10:25 Simona Aracri National Research Council of Italy
Robotics for Extreme Environments: an Ocean Treasure

10:25 - 10:55 Coffee break

10:55 - 11:20 Daniel Zitterbart Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

11:20 - 11:45 Peter Washam Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Ice on the Move: What observing Antarctica’s ice shelves now with underwater robotics can tell us about future sea level rise

11:45 - 12:15 Round Table

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Poster presentation

14:00 - 15:00 Poster session

Ocean robotics session

15:00 - 15:25 Robert Shepherd Cornell University, USA

High Energy Capacity Robots via Embodied Energy for Agriculture and Oceanography

15:20 - 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 - 16:05 Kaitlyn Becker MIT, Massachusetts, USA

Soft grippers for deep-sea biological sampling: design and fabrication for uncertainty

16:05 - 16:30 Roland Bouffanais University of Geneva, Switzerland

Leveraging social contagion in swarm robotics for effective environmental monitoring.

16:30 - 16:55 Matthew Dunbabin - Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Automated Intervention using Cooperative Robots for Marine Habitat Conservation

16:55 - 17:30 Round Table 2

17:30 End

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