PROGRAM

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Program at a glance


Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27 Saturday 28
8:00 - 8:15 Registration Registration Registration Registration Competition team registration
8:15 - 8:30
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 - 9:00 SSSA Rector and General Chair Mayor The BioRobotics Institute Director
9:00 - 9:15 WS1, WS2,
WS3, WS4
Full-day Workshops (Morning session 1)
WS5, WS6
Half-day Workshops
(Part 1)
Plenary Lecture
Koichi Suzumori
Exhibition Plenary Lecture
Paolo Dario
Exhibition Plenary Lecture
Mark Cutkosky
Exhibition RoboSoft 2018 Competition
9:15 - 9:30
9:30 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15 Biologically Inspired Soft Robots Hydraulic/pneumatic actuators Applied Mathematics for Soft Robotics
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
11:00 - 11:15 WS1, WS2,
WS3, WS4
Full-day Workshops (Morning session 2)
WS5, WS6
Half-day Workshops
(Part 2)
11:15 - 11:30 Modelling and control of soft robots Locomotion Soft grasping and manipulation
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:15 Wearable robots
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45 Poster Teasers Poster Teasers
12:45 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:15 Free Time for Lunch Free Time for Lunch Free Time for Lunch Free Time for Lunch Competition awards ceremony and closing
13:15 - 13:30
13:30 - 13:45
13:45 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:15 WS1, WS2,
WS3, WS4
Full-day Workshops (Afternoon session 1)
WS7, WS8
Half-day Workshops
(Part 1)
Interactive session
(with coffee)
Interactive session
(with coffee)
Interactive late-breaking session
(with coffee)
14:15 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:45 Force and Tactile Sensing Plenary Lecture
Daniel Goldman

Technical Tour at the Research Centre on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics "Scoglio della Regina" (*)
15:45 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break Bus Livorno to Pontedera
16:15 - 16:30 Flexible robots and mechanism design
16:30 - 16:45 WS1, WS2,
WS3, WS4
Full-day Workshops (Afternoon session 2)
WS7, WS8
Half-day Workshops
(Part 2)
Underwater soft robotics Technical Tour at The BioRobotics Institute (*)
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:15 Haptics and Haptic Interfaces Competition team registration
17:15 - 17:30
17:30 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:00
18:00 - 18:15

Social event & Banquet
(awards ceremony, RoboSoft 2018 report (Program Chair), RoboSoft 2019 (next General Chair))
Bus Pontedera to Livorno Inspection of the competition fields
18:15 - 18:30
18:30 - 18:45 Welcome party Farwell party at the Research Centre on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics "Scoglio della Regina"
18:45 - 19:00
19:00 - 19:15
19:15 - 19:30
19:30 - 19:45
19:45 - 20:00
20:00 -


Plenary lectures, podium sessions and poster teasers are held at Pancaldi Conference Center.

Interactive sessions and exhibition are held at Grand Hotel Palazzo.

(*) TECHNICAL TOURS:

A technical tour is organized on Friday April 27 afternoon, to the Biorobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and to the IIT Center for Micro-BioRobotics , both located in Pontedera (PI). A bus transportation will be organized by the Conference, leaving from Livorno, GHPalazzo at 4pm and coming back at 6.30pm.
Interested people are invited to subscribe the tour sending a message to:

NEW - Another technical tour is organized on Friday April 27, in parallel with the Technical Tour at the BioRobotics Institute, to the Research Center on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics.
Registration is not needed for this tour.