Panels & Forums

Interdisciplinarity & Inclusivity

🗓 Thursday, 24th April | 🕠 5:50–6:30 PM

Chairs and Organizers: Simona Aracri and Jovana Jovanova & the Soft Robotics Working Group of Diversity and Inclusion

About: Join us for a dynamic discussion on interdisciplinarity in Soft Robotics and diversity in the research community. Panelists will share personal stories, lessons from cross-disciplinary work, and ideas to foster inclusion.

Let’s rethink how we build a more inclusive future in robotics—together!

Industry & Start-ups Panel

🗓 Saturday, 26th April | 🕠 5:00–5:40 PM

Chairs & Organizers: Vito Cacucciolo, Yu Kuwajima, Shingo Maeda

About: Start-up companies are springing up in soft robotics and related fields, and soft robotics is becoming widely known in society. The industrial forum 2025 will focus on how soft robotic research and related fields have moved from labs to business. We will have a roundtable with researchers and businesspeople with success stories to share about their own paths from research to creating a business.