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List of attended conferences/workshops and invited talks

TitleType, name of the eventInvolved person (partner)Dates and location/online conferenceType of contributionLink

ENGE 2024

Lucia Beccai (IIT)

November 25, 2024  Jeju Island, South Korea)

Talk: 3D printed architected and porous structures for a new generation of soft sensors and
continuum soft actuators

Workshop at RoboSoft 2021

Sarah Karmel (PHC)

April 12, 2021
Online

Invited Talk: Visible light 3D printing for continuum structures

Workshop at RoboSoft 2021

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

April 12, 2021
Online

Invited Talk: 3D & 4D printing for soft robotics

International conference of additive manufacturing for a bet...

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

August 23-25, 2022,
Singapore and online

Invited talk: New Materials For 2D, 3D And 4D Printing

Workshop at RoboSoft 2022

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

April 4, 2022
Edinburgh (Scotland) and online

Invited Talk: New Materials for 2D & 3D Printing of Soft Sensing

Conference - MRS Spring meeting

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

May 8-13, 2022
Honolulu, Hawaii

Invited Talk: 2D, 3D and 4D Printing of Smart Materials

International Conference of Additive Manufacturing for a Bet...

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

Singapore University for Technology and Design
August 23-25, 2022
Singapore

Talk: New materials for 2D, 3D ,and 4D printing

International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing -ICAM 202...

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

October 30 – November 3, 2023
Washington (USA)

Talk: New materials and approaches for 3D and 4D printing

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN FOR 3D PRINTING

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

Singapore Center for 3D Printing
September 22-23, 2022
Singapore

Talk: 2D and 3D printing of functional materials

3DPrintingForum2022

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

November 14-16, 2022
Valencia (Spain)
Converted to virtual

Talk: New materials and approaches for 3D and 4D printing

Inkjet Technology Conference Colour Materials 2022

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

December 20-21, 2022
Online

Talk: Fabrication by printing: new 2D,3D and 4D inks

International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing -ICAM 202...

Ouriel Bliah (HUJI)

October 30 – November 3, 2023

Washington (USA)

Talk: 3D printing of stretchable and compressible porous structures by polymerizable emulsion for soft robotics

HUJI Nano Center Annual Conference 2022

Ouriel Bliah (HUJI)

February 27, 2023
Jerusalem (Israel)

Poster: 3D printing of stretchable and compressible porous structures by polymerizable emulsion for soft robotics

HUJI Nano Center Annual Conference 2022

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

February 27, 2023
Jerusalem (Israel)

Talk: From Gutenberg Bible to 4D printing

Israel Conference on Advanced Manufacturing -ICAM 2023

Ouriel Bliah (HUJI)

March 13 2023

Talk: 3D printing of stretchable and compressible porous structures by polymerizable emulsion for soft robotics

Israel Conference on Advanced Manufacturing -ICAM 2023

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

March 13 2023, Israel

Talk: New materials and approaches for 3D and 4D printing

Ministry of Defence AM conference

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

May 14, 2023

Talk: 2D and 3D printing of functional materials

I-RIM 3D Conference

Francesco Piqué (SSSA)

December 10-12, 2020
Online

Talk: A Learning-based Approach for Adaptive Closed-loop Control of a Soft Robotic Arm

2021 IEEE Italy Section Summer School on Information Enginee...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

December 10-12, 2020
Online

Invited Lecture: Machine learning algorithms for robots: from perception to control

Conference – ICAR 2021 

Andrea Centurelli
SSSA

December 6-10, 2021
Online

Talk: Open-loop Model-free Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator for Tracking Tasks

Conference - RoboSoft 2022

Francesco Piqué (SSSA)

April 4-8, 2022
Edinburgh (UK)

Talk: Controlling Soft Robotic Arms Using Continual Learning

Conference – ICRA 2022

Andrea Centurelli
SSSA

May 23-27, 2022
Philadelphia (USA)

Talk: Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Carlo Alessi (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Enrico Donato (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022 

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Invited lecture: AI-based controllers for soft manipulators

Conference - ICINCO 2022

Diego Bianchi (SSSA)

July 14-16, 2022
Lisbon (Portugal)

Talk: Open-loop Control of a Soft Arm in Throwing Tasks

Conference - RoboSoft 2023 Workshop on Modelling Challenges ...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Talk: Learning-based controllers for soft robots: towards real-world applications

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Diego Bianchi (SSSA), Giulia Campinot, Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Policy Adaptation using an Online Regressing Network in a Soft Robotic Arm

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Francesco Piquè (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Conference - ICINCO 2023

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

November 15, 2023
Rome (Italy)

Talk: Learning-Based Inverse Dynamic Controller for Throwing Tasks with a Soft Robotic Arm

International Conference on Materials for Humanity 2022 

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

National University of Singapore
September 19-21, 2022
Singapore

Talk: 2D and 3D printing of functional materials

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Cognition across species”

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Exploring Cognitive Models Across Species for Robotic Control

Conference - RoboSoft 2023 Workshop on Modelling Challenges ...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Talk: Learning-based controllers for soft robots: towards real-world applications

ICRA 2024

Diego Bianchi (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Oral presentation: Softoss: Learning to throw objects with a soft robot

RoboSoft 2024 - Workshop: “EMBODIED EXPLORATION THROUGH MU...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Oral Presentation: Modelling the elephant trunk dynamics in reaching tasks

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022 

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Invited lecture: AI-based controllers for soft manipulators

Conference – ICAR 2021 

Andrea Centurelli
SSSA

December 6-10, 2021
Online

Talk: Open-loop Model-free Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator for Tracking Tasks

RoboSoft 2024 

Francesco Piquè(SSSA),Gojko Perovic(SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Poster: Mitigating Stochasticity in Visual Serving of Soft Robots Using Data-Driven Generative Models

RoboSoft 2024 

Enrico Donato (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Poster: Multi-modal perception for soft robotic interactions using generative models

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024 Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Lessons from the elephant trunk for perceptive and versatile manipulators

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Poster: Comparative Analysis of African and Asian Elephant Trunk Sections for new design principles for bioinspired continuum manipulators

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...
Anderson Nardin (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Poster: Simulation of the AM I-SUPPORT Soft Arm: Integrating Hyperelastic Modeling for Enhanced Performance Validation

RoboSoft 2024 

Enrico Donato (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Talk: Continual Policy Distillation of Reinforcement Learning-based Controllers for Soft Robotic In-Hand Manipulation

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Whole-arm Grasping Strategy for Soft Arms to Capture Space Debris

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Learning models for soft robot control

RoboSoft 2024 - Workshop: “EMBODIED EXPLORATION THROUGH MU...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Talk: Insights on Elephant Trunk Interaction and Skin Morphology

Invited talk

Giovanna Naselli
(IIT-BSR)

December 1st, 2023
University of Genova (Italy)

Invited talk: An Introduction to Bioinspired Soft Robotics

Invited talk

Giovanna Naselli
(IIT-BSR)

October 26, 2023
Istituto di Biorobotics, Pontedera (Italy)

Invited talk: Can we really model soft robots?

Living machines 2023

Behnam Kamare (IIT-SBRP)

July 10-13, Genova (Italy)

Talk: Study and preliminary modeling of microstructure and morphology of the elephant trunk skin

Icra 2023 - Workshop ViTac: Blending Virtual and Real Visuo-...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

May 29 – June 2, London (UK) (talk was given online)

Invited talk: The elephant trunk as a new model of tactile perception

Robosoft 2023 – Workshop on “Functional Adaptiveness in ...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 3-7, 2023
Singapore

Invited Talk: Studying the elephant trunk from macro to microscale towards new continuum manipulators

Robosoft 2023 – Workshop on “Functional Adaptiveness in ...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

April 3-7, 2023
Singapore

Poster: The Elephant skin: armor or perceptive tool?

NeuTouch 2022 -International School on Technologies for Touc...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

September 26-30 2022

Invited talk: Interacting with the unknown: the soft sensing way

Workshop - Shaping the Future of Robotics through Materials ...

Simone Lantean (IIT-SBRP)

June 15-18, 2022
Max Planck Institute,
Schloss Ringberg (Germany)

Poster: Soft optical waveguide approaches for soft robotics

Workshop - Shaping the Future of Robotics through Materials ...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

June 15-18, 2022
Max Planck Institute
Schloss Ringberg (Germany)

Invited Talk: An introduction to the PROBOSCIS Project

Conference - MRS Spring meeting

Simone Lantean (IIT-SBRP)

May 8-13, 2022
Honolulu, Hawaii

Talk: Highly NIR-Reflective coatings for Soft Robotics Sensing

Conference - MRS Spring meeting

Seonggun Joe (IIT-SBRP)

May 8-13, 2022
Honolulu, Hawaii

Talk: Programmable architectures using highly deformable elastic lattice for multidimensional soft actuators

Workshop at RoboSoft 2022 

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 4, 2022
Edimburgh (UK) and online

Invited talk: Soft sensing - State of the art and open challenges

Workshop at RoboSoft 2022

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

April 4, 2022
Edimburgh (UK) and online

Poster: All-optical, distributed and deformable pressure and strain sensitive skins

Workshop Geomechanics meets Biorobotics: a new approach towa...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

March 2, 2022
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)

Invited talk: From soft sensing approaches towards embodied perception in bioinspired soft gripping

Conference – IROS 2021

Seonggun Joe (IIT-SBRP)

September 27 – October 1, 2021
Prague (Czech Republic)

Talk: Sensing Deformation in Vacuum Driven Foam-Based Actuator via Inductive Method

Conference - I-RIM 2022

IIT-BSR

October 7-8 2022
Rome (Italy)

Poster: GRACE: GeometRy-based Actuators
that Contract and Elongate

Conference - International Conference on Programmable Materi...

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

12-14 July, 2022
Berlin (Germany) and online

Invited Talk: Morphological and behavioural adaptation in soft robots

SMART Winter school

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

12-17 December, 2021
Cambridge (UK)

Invited Talk: From Nature to Nature: a vision of bioinspired soft robots for the planet

Seminar Series in Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) at ...

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

8 July, 2022
EMPA Dübendorf (Switzerland) and Online

Seminar: A vision towards bioinspired sustainable robotics

Workshop - Robosoft 2021

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

April 12, 2021
Online

Invited Talk: Methods for behavioral experiments with elephants

Biology Club

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

May 17, 2021
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Anatomy Club of the Medical Faculty

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

January 24, 2022
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

February 22, 2022
Online (hosted by the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Seminars in Neuroscience

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

April 4, 2022
University of Cologne (Germany)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Course Multi-Scale Integration in Biological Systems

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

November 13, 2023
Institut Curie Paris (France)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

List of planned participation to conferences, workshops and other events

Name and website of the conferenceTitle/Topic of contribution Dates and location/online conferenceInvolved partnerType of contribution (paper, invited talk, workshop, symposium)Link

MRS 2024 

Additive fabrication of soft robotics

December 1-6, 2024
Boston (Massachusetts, USA)

Shlomo Magdassi (HUJI)

Talk

IEEE RAS EMBS 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024)

Behavior Cloning from Observations with Domain Mapping for the Control of Soft Robots

September 1-4, 2024
Heidelberg (Germany)

Beatrice Tosi (UNIPI), Muhammad Sunny Nazeer (SSSA, NUS), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Oral presentation

IEEE RAS EMBS 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024)

Towards Interpretable Visuo-Tactile Predictive Models for Soft Robot Interactions

September 1-4, 2024
Heidelberg (Germany)

Enrico Donato (SSSA), Thomas George Thuruthel (UCL), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Oral presentation

List of attended events for general public

Name of the event and websiteInvolved partnerLocation and dateType of contribution (presentation, demo or stand video, etc.) and title (if any)

HUMANOIDS (https://2024.ieee-humanoids.org/">

November, 22-25 Nancy (France)

Stand

Festival delle scienzehttps://www.auditorium.com/festivaldel...

Lucia Beccai (IIT)

November 27, 2021
Rome (Italy)

Invited talk: L’elefante e la robotica...
“Nuit de la Science” http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch...
Paule Dagenais (UNIG...
July 9-10 2022Geneve (Switzerl...
Virtual reality headset exhibition (http...
“Où est le monstre?  https://www.geneve.ch/fr/agenda/mon...
Paule Dagenais (UNIG...
February-April 2022Geneve (Swi...
Virtual reality headset exhibition (http...
Elephant professional lectures https://www.helpingelephants....
Paule Dagenais (UNIG...
October 20, 2021Online (hosted...

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

17th International Elephant Conservation & Research Symp...
Paule Dagenais (UNIG...
November 17, 2021Online (hoste...

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Bright Night
https://www.bright-night.it/2024

Enrico Donato (SSSA)...

September 27, 2024
Pisa (Italy)

Stand

Pisa Robotics Festivalhttps://roboticafestival.it/bioispiraz...
Egidio Falotico (SSS...

May 25, 2024
Pisa (Italy)

Talk: Intelligenza artificiale per la ro...
Bright Nighthttps://www.bright-night.it/2023/benvenuti-nei-c...
Enrico Donato (SSSA)...

September 29, 2023
Pisa (Italy)

Stand

Pisa Robotics Festivalhttps://roboticafestival.it/interventi...
Enrico Donato (SSSA)...

May 20, 2023
Pisa (Italy)

Talk: Piante rampicanti ed elefanti ispi...
Bright Nighthttps://www.santannapisa.it/it/news/bright-night...
Enrico Donato (SSSA)...

September 30, 2022
Pisa (Italy)

Stand