IROS 2026 full-day workshop
Date: 2026/10/01
8:30 - 8:45
Organizing team
8:45 - 9:10
9:10 - 9:35
Josie Hughes, Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne
9:35 - 10:00
Tianlu Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
10:00 - 10:25
Robert Shepherd, Professor, Cornell University
Morning coffee break 10:30 - 11:00
Poster & Demo session I
11:00 - 11:40
4 lightning talks:
11:00 - 11:10 Nemo Hsiao, Postdoc, MIT. Soft robots can be fast, precise, and durable
11:10 - 11:20 Tianyu Wang, Postdoc, Georgia Tech. Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot
11:20 - 11:30 Patrick Musgrave, Assistant Professor, University of Florida. Is a Fish a Computer? Embodied Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Fish
11:30-11:40 Yunjia Zhang, PhD student, Tsinghua University. Mechanical Programmability in Passive Suction Cups for Electronics-Free Soft Robotic Adhesion and Locomotion
11:40 - 12:05
Sameh Tawfick, Professor, UIUC
12:05 - 12:30
Nana Obayashi, Assistant Professor, New York University
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
13:30 - 13:55
Kyujin Cho, Professor, Seoul National University
13:55 - 14:20
Philip Buskohl, Researcher, Air Force Research Laboratory
14:20 - 14:45
Daniel Preston, Assistant Professor, Rice University
14:45 - 15:30
4 lightning talks:
14:45 - 14:56 Yilin Cai, PhD student, Georgia Tech. Morphological Mechanical Intelligence in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robots
14:56 - 15:07 Jingyuan Xia, PhD student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Learning-Based Real-Time Shape and Force Estimation for Continuum Robots Using FBG-Embedded Actuation Cables
15:07 - 15:18 Jiahe Wang, PhD student, Arizona State University. Embodied Shape Control of a Soft Robotic Arm for Mechanically Intelligent Soft Robotics
15:18 - 15:30 Dohyeon Pyeon, PhD student, Seoul National University. Hanging from Inclined Branches: Prehensile Tail-inspired Wrapping for stable anchoring
Afternoon coffee break 15:30 - 16:00
Poster & Demo session II
16:00 - 16:25
Chase Cao, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
16:25 - 16:50
Van Anh Ho, Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tech
16:50 - 17:20
Moderator: Wenzhong Yan
17:20 - 17:30
Organizing team
Poster section
Morning Section (10:30 - 11:00)
Eric Weissman, Arizona State University, Versatile Artificial Muscles by Decoupling Anisotropy
Shuwei Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, A Magnetically Steerable Micro-Camera Catheter for Bronchial-tree Phantom Navigation
Rebecca Carpenter, Carnegie Mellon University, BeadBots: Beaded Metamaterials for Soft Robotics
Ruizhi Deng, University of Michigan, Residual-Corrected Implicit Mechanics for Actionable Digital Twins of Cable-Driven Soft Robots
Jiahe Wang, Arizona State University, Embodied Shape Control of a Soft Robotic Arm for Mechanically Intelligent Soft Robotics
Siwen Xie, McMaster University, Automated Fabrication of Magnetic Soft Microrobots with Programmable Design and Magnetization
Yilin Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morphological Mechanical Intelligence in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robots
Tianyu Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot
Altair Coutinho, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Mechanical Intelligence in Soft Robotic Lattices
Jingyuan Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Learning-Based Real-Time Shape and Force Estimation for Continuum Robots Using FBG-Embedded Actuation Cables
Dohyeon Pyeon, Seoul National University, Hanging from Inclined Branches: Prhensile Tail-inspired Wrapping for stable anchoring
Yunjia Zhang/Yiming He, Tsinghua University, Mechanical Programmability in Passive Suction Cups for Electronics-Free Soft Robotic Adhesion and Locomotion
Afternoon Section (15:30 - 16:00)
Juan P. Monge, Purdue University, Pressure-Triggered Contact Sensing for Fully Mechanical Soft Robotic Response
Jhonatan S. Rincon, Purdue University, Curvature Adaptable Robotic End-Effectors
SeungMin Kim, Seoul National University, Bidirectional Soft Actuation through Fluid Redistribution via Electroosmotic Pumping
Inchul Jeong, Seoul National University, Variable-Impedance Finger with Tendon Coupling and Elastic Belts for Object Translation
Seunguk Moon, Seoul National University, A Customizable Robotic Glove with Joint-Specific Impedance and Integrated Sensing via Functionally Graded Printing
Ziting Liang, University College London, Advancing SoftSCREEN: A Flexible-Shaft-Driven Capsule System for Robot-Assisted Colonoscopy
Elif Pinar Aydin, University of Notre Dame, Hydrodynamic Coupling in Dual Soft Robotic Flagella: Influence of Separation Distance, Actuation Frequency and Flagellar Stiffness
Mingxuan He, University of Michigan, Novel Design of Large-Scale Origami Soft Arm with High Payload
Yi Jin, Case Western Reserve University, Locally Decoupled Sti ness and Shape in Hybrid Spiral Soft Arms for Mechanical Intelligence
Doug Tilley, University of Bath, A Stratified Chiral Lattice for Soft Knee Actuation
Abu Nayem Md. Asraf Siddiquee, University of Notre Dame, An Amphibious Robot with Passively Adaptive Modular Flippers
Hiroto Kodama, Institute of Science Tokyo, Mechanical Intelligence in a Vine-Like Power Soft Gripper