PROGRAM

Wednesday  July 26

8:00 - REGISTRATION

9:00 - PLENARY TALK BY CECILIA LASCHI
Soft Robotics: life-like robot abilities for living machines

10:40 - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - ADVANCES IN SOFT ROBOTICS

• 10:40: Jellyfish inspired soft robot prototype which uses circumferential contraction for jet propulsion
• 11:00: Mathematical Modeling to Improve Control of Mesh Body for Peristaltic Locomotion
• 11:20: Tunable Normal and Shear Force Discrimination by a Plant-Inspired Tactile Sensor
• 11:40: An Integrated Compliant Fabric Skin Softens, Lightens, and Simplifies a Mesh Robot

1:00 PM - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - 3D PRINTING BIOMACHINES

• 1:00: 3D-printed Biohybrid Robots Powered by Neuromuscular Tissue Circuits from Aplysia californica
• 1:20: EvoBot: towards a Robot-Chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel

2:00 PM - PLENARY TALK BY KOH HOSODA
Soft Humanoid Robots of Muscles, Bones, and Skin for Understanding Intelligent Behavior

3:20 PM - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - ROBOTS AND SOCIETY 

• 3:20: Stimulus Control for Semi-Autonomous Computer Canine-Training
• 3:40: A Biomimetic Vocalisation System for MiRo
• 4:00: You made him be alive: Children’s perceptions of animacy in a humanoid robot

4:20 PM - SPONSOR BRIEFINGS

4:40 PM - POSTER SESSION 1

6:00 PM - RECEPTION 

Thursday  July 27

8:30 - REGISTRATION

9:00 - PLENARY TALK BY KWABENA BOAHEN
Neuromorphic Computing

10:40 - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - BIOMIMETIC VISION AND CONTROL 

• 10:40: Spiking cooperative stereo-matching at 2 ms latency with neuromorphic hardware
• 11:00: Predator Evasion by a Robocrab
• 11:20: Pop! Observing and Modeling the Legless Self-righting Jumping Mechanism of Click Beetles
• 11:40: MantisBot Changes Stepping Speed by Entraining CPGs to Positive Velocity

1:00 PM - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - UTILITY AND LIMITS OF DEEP LEARNING FOR BIOROBOTICS 

• 1:00: Using deep autoencoders to investigate image matching in visual navigation
• 1:20: Analysing the Limitations of Deep Learning

2:00 PM - PLENARY TALK BY REBECCA KRAMER 
Soft Robotics: Design and Fabrication of Intelligent Material Systems

3:20 PM - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - COLLECTIVE & EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN ANIMALS AND ROBOTICS 

• 3:20: Self-organising thermoregulatory huddling in a model of soft deformable littermates
• 3:40: Reducing Training Environments in Evolutionary Robotics Through Ecological Modularity
• 4:00: Automated calibration of a biomimetic space-dependent model for zebrafish and robot collective behaviour in a structured environment

4:30 PM - BUS TO CRUISE DOCK 

6:30 PM - DINNER CRUISE - INVITED TALK WITH MARK SETRAKIAN 
The Art of Robotics

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NB: transport from and to Stanford is provided.

Buses depart from Stanford at 4:45 PM and return at 11:00 PM.

Friday  July 28

8:30 - REGISTRATION

9:00 - PAPER PRESENTATIONS - BIOINSPIRED FLIGHT 

• 9:00: Describing Robotic Bat Flight with Stable Periodic Orbits
• 9:20: Reducing Versatile Bat Wing Conformations to a 1-DoF Machine
• 9:40: Feather-Inspired Sensor for Stabilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Turbulent
• 10:00: Autonomous Thrust-Assisted Perching of a Fixed-Wing UAV on Vertical Surfaces

10:20 - POSTER SESSION 2

11:40 - AWARDS 

12:00 - BUS + BOX LUNCH TO BERKELEY 

2:30 PM - BERKELEY LAB TOURS 

3:45 PM - TOUR OF JACOBS INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN INNOVATION 

4:00 PM - PLENARY TALK BY ROBERT J. FULL
Advancing Bioinspired Design: Principles, Processes, and Inclusive Excellence

NB: Transport to Berkeley is provided. Buses depart at 12:15 pm.

Participants are free to enjoy Berkeley and depart to San Francisco or Napa Valley from there. Own transport after the event ends.