Magnetic Soft Matter for Robotics
1st Annual Conference
4-5 September 2025 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Program
Thursday, September 4th 2025
Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:10
9:20 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10
10:10 - 10:30
Registration
Opening remarks
Invited 1
Viscoelasticity of magnetorheological fluids: from particle simulations to continuum models
Regular 1
Persistent wetting ridges on magnetoactive elastomers
Regular 2
Magnetic nanomaterials for biomedical, catalytic and sensing applications
Irena Drevenšek Olenik
Janez Bonča
Tilen Potisk
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana
Raphael Kriegl
OTH Regensburg
Darko Markovec
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:50
11:50 - 12:10
Invited 2
Magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs): ferromagnet particles trapped inside a polymer matrix. Mesoscopic view on the macroscopic behavior
Regular 3
What can microindentation tell us about the properties of magneto-active elastomers?
Regular 4
Transport of materials by magnetoactive surfaces
Yuriy L. Raikher
Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics,
UB RAS, Perm, Ural Federal University
Alexander Kovalev
Kiel University
Irena Drevenšek Olenik
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana
12:10 - 12:20
12:20 - 15:00
Group picture
Lunch break, individual discussions
Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:50
15:50 - 16:10
16:10 - 16:30
Invited 3
Use of soft materials in robotic actuation and cognition
Regular 5
Computer simulation approaches for modelling magneto-elastic coupling
Regular 6
Hard problems of variable soft mechanics control
Regular 7
Harnessing mechanical nonlinearities for functional soft robotic systems
Roman Kamnik
Robolab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Sofia Kantorovich
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
Xiaofeng Xiong
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Matteo Cianchetti
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
16:30 - 18:00
19:00 - ...
Poster session with refreshments
Doctoral colloquium
Conference dinner at this location https://maps.app.goo.gl/uXz2ndWFrL72XevA9
Friday, September 5th 2025
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30
9:30 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10
Invited 4
Limbless crawling soft robots
Regular 8 (online)
Robot hands for prosthetics and industrial automation
Regular 9 (online)
The modular design system for universal gripping
Ahmad Rafsanjani Abbasi
SDU Soft Robotics, University of Southern Denmark
Francesco Clemente
Prensilia SRL, Pontedera
Alexey Stepanyuk
WegaRD GmbH, Hamburg
10:10 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:50
Invited 5
Robot learning for adaptive robots
Regular 10
Ferromagnetic ferrofluids from barium hexaferrite nanoplatelets
Regular 11
Investigation of magnetic soft materials with neutron scattering techniques
Aleš Ude
Dept. of Automatics, Biocybernetics & Robotics, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Darja Lisjak
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Jürgen Klepp
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
11:50 - 12:00
12:00 - ...
Closing remarks
Lunch break, individual discussions, visits to the labs, etc.
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