Oral Program

Engineering Stronger Muscles and Longer Strokes for Faster Biohybrid Robots

Shoji Takeuchi

The University of Tokyo

Neuro Muscular Junction Enabled Biohybrid Robots - Thoughts on Programming and Energy Efficient Designs

Rashid Bashir

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Why are we building these things?

Kevin Kit Parker

Harvard University

Insect-based Biohybrid Systems and Robots – Tools, Techniques and Applications

Barani Raman

Washington University in St. Louis

Exploiting surface charges on biointerfaces in plant-biohybrids

Fabian Meder

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Living Neural Networks as Adaptive Controllers for Biohybrid Robotic Navigation

Brett Kagan

Cortical Labs

Talk prepared on behalf of the Cortical Labs team and collaborators

Fate determinants of biohybrid muscle tissues – advancements and challenges

Taher Saif

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

with William Drennan

Engineering Living Muscles for Biohybrid Robots: From Tissue Training to High-Performance Locomotion

Yu Jun Tan

National University of Singapore

Talk cancelled

Brain Organoid Computing for Robotic Decision-Making

Feng Guo

Indiana University

Autonomous biological and bio-hybrid robots fabricated from amphibian cells

Douglas Blackiston

Tufts University

Engineering of Hydrogel-Based Biohybrid Robots via Magnetic Control

Ruoxiao Xie

University of Liverpool

Muscles, Tendons, Sensors, and Nerves: Toward Robots That Are Partly Alive

Robert Katzschmann

ETH Zurich

with Aiste Balciunaite, Miriam Filippi, Asia Badolato, and the Soft Robotics Lab (ETH Zurich), with IBEC Barcelona, HU Berlin, University of Tokyo, and Empa

Engineering the biohybrid interface: from biomaterials to intracellular biophysical stimulation

Leonardo Ricotti

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

A Computational Design-to-Manufacturing Pipeline for 3D-printed Compliant Mechanism-Based Biohybrid Robots

Victoria Webster-Wood

Carnegie Mellon University

with Humphrey Yang

Leveraging 4D tissue engineering to enhance the reproducibility, efficiency, and real-world applicability of biohybrid robots

Ritu Raman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biohybrid Physical Intelligence -Molecules, Cells, Tissues, Materials, Devices and Systems integration-

Keisuke Morishima

The University of Osaka

Electrically Conductive Nano-biomaterials and Wirelessly Powered Cell Stimulator for Controlling Biohybrid Soft Robots

Su-Ryon Shin

Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Functional material architectures for animated soft living robots

Maria Guix

University of Barcelona

Device-Tissue Coordination in Biohybrid Systems for Controlled Actuation, Mechanical Training, and Environmental Interaction

Yuya Morimoto

Waseda University

Beyond Living Systems: Publics, Ethics and Governance in Biohybrid Robotics

Rafael Mestre

University of Southampton

Aquatic invertebrates in biohybrid robotics: Research, teaching, and ethics

Nicole Xu

University of Colorado Boulder

Towards biohybrid morphing matter robots

Jonathan Rossiter

University of Bristol

Microfluidically Perfused 3D Skin Constructs Toward Self-Healing Skin-Covered Robots Sustained in Air

Minghao Nie

The University of Tokyo

A Stress-Driven End-to-End Computational Model for Biohybrid Robot Formation and Function

Manuel Mekkattu

ETH Zurich

with Robert Katzschmann (ETH)

Toward biohybrid facial actuation: 3D bioprinting of functional skeletal muscle systems

Florencia Lezcano

Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

Bio-Syncretic Robots Actuated by Living Muscle Cells: From Manufacturing to Integration and Control

Chuang Zhang

Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences