Speakers

  • Toru Asahi “Generalized High Accuracy Universal Polarimeter and its Application to Photomechanical Crystals”
  • Loïc Blanc “Controllable stiffness mechanisms for medical devices”
  • Joost Brancart “Thermally and photochemically reversible polymer networks for self-healing applications”
  • “Unidirectional transport in robotic mechanical metamaterials”
  • Yuki Hagiwara “Soft Crystals as Photomobile Materials”
  • Hideko Koshima “Mechanical Crystal Materials for Soft Robotics”
  • Thomas Lessinnes “A guided tour of an active biofilament with a few mathematical detours”
  • Daniele Martella “Photonic micro robots with self-regulating behaviour“
  • Aslan Miriyev “Materials for Soft Robotics”
  • Brad Nelson “Soft Microrobotics and its Application in Medicine”
  • Stefano Palagi “Bioinspired Soft Microrobots”
  • Kanty Rabenorosoa “Conducting polymers based robots at small scales”
  • Jean-Marie Raquez “Shape-memory polymers for multiple applications in the materials world”
  • Hideyuki Sawada “Soft Actuators and Sensors with the Use of Physical Properties for Robotic Manipulations”
  • Herbert Shea “Electrically-Driven Elastomer-Based Actuators for Wearable Haptics and Soft Robotics”
  • Metin Sitti “Bio-inspired Small-Scale Soft Robotics”
  • AntoniyaToncheva “Multi-responsive polymer actuators by thermo-reversible chemistry”
  • Shunsuke Nagahama “Novel functions on mechanical systems with soft materials”
  1. Toru Asahi, Prof., Life science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  2. Loïc Blanc , Transfers, Interfaces and Processes, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
  3. Joost Brancart, PhD, Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
  4. Martin Brandenbourger, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  5. Yuki Hagiwara, Life science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  6. Hideko Koshima, Prof., Research Organization for Nano & Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  7. Thomas  Lessinnes, Prof., Université libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium.
  8. Daniele Martella, PhD, LENS, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
  9. Aslan Miriyev, Materials and Technology Center of Robotics, Empa- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
  10. Brad Nelson, Multi-scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  11. Stefano Palagi, PhD, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
  12. Kanty Rabenorosoa, Ass. Prof., MiNaRoB, Femto-st Institute, Besançon, France.
  13. Jean-Marie Raquez, Prof., Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials (LPCM) and Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP), University of Mons, Mons, Belgium.
  14. Hideyuki Sawada, Prof., Science and Engineering, Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  15. Hebert Shea, Prof., LMTS, EPFL, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
  16. Metin Sitti, PhD. Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.
  17. Antoniya Toncheva, PhD, Materia Nova – Materials R&D center, Mons, Belgium.
  18. Shunshuke Nagahama, PhD, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering , Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.