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Full day workshop

MONOLITHIC SOFT SYSTEMS:

Co-design tools, materials, and fabrication strategies for next-generation robotics

  • Date:
    April 7th, 2026
  • Location:
    Kanazawa Hotel, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Room:
    TBD

PROGRAM

Schedule in Japan Standard Time (JST)

TimeSpeakerTopic
8:45–9:00
Opening (by organizers)
Why monolithic? Why now?
9:00–11:40
SESSION 1
Design tools and strategies
9:00–9:20
Speaker 1: Diana Cafiso
Optical waveguides for 3D printed monolithic soft robots
9:20–9:40
Speaker 2: David Hardman
Towards stretchable single-layer robotic skins with multimodal sensing capabilities
9:40–10:00
Speaker 3: Stephanie Woodman
Stretchable computation embedded in soft systems
10:00–10:15
Coffee Break
10:15–10:35
Speaker 4: Felix Vanneste
Modeling and fabrication of soft robots made of anisotropic mesostructured materials
10:35–10:55
Speaker 5: Taekyoung Kim
3D printable architected soft actuators for physically intelligent robotic systems
11:00–11:40
Panel Discussion 1 (Moderated by Trevor Exley and Majid Taghavi)
Design tools and strategies
11:40–12:30
POSTER / INTERACTIVE SESSION
11:40–12:00
Pitch session (2 minutes each) of posters
12:00–12:30
Interactive poster session
12:30–13:45
Lunch Break
Interactive poster session (continued)
13:45–17:00
SESSION 2
Integrated or monolithic systems
13:45–14:05
Speaker 6: Michael T. Tolley
SoRoPrint: 3D printing monolithic soft robots controlled by embedded fluidic circuits
14:05–14:25
Speaker 7: Petr Trunin
Seamless integration of soft optical sensors with lattice-based robots
14:25–14:45
Speaker 8: Miriam Filippi
Unifying biology and machine: co-design strategies for bio-hybrid soft robots with seamless actuation and sensing
14:45–15:05
Speaker 9: Guangming Xie
Bio-inspired soft electronic skin enables underwater perception and communication
15:05–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–15:40
Speaker 10: Majid Taghavi
Artificial muscles with extended functions for monolithic medical robots
15:40–16:00
Speaker 11: Perla Maiolino
Monolithic 3D printing of integrated soft sensor systems
16:00–16:20
Speaker 12: Charbel Dalely Tawk
3D-printed monolithic soft systems with embedded sensing and actuation
16:20–17:00
Panel Discussion 2 (Moderated by Felix Vanneste and Lucia Beccai)
Integrated or monolithic systems
17:00–17:15
Poster Awards and Closing Remarks
17:15–17:30
Informal Networking