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
9:00 - 9:10
9:20 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10
10:10 - 10:30
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
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
Functional morphology and biomechanics
Regular 4
Transport of materials by magnetoactive surfaces
Yuriy L. Raikher
Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics,
UB RAS, Perm, Ural Federal University
Stanislav Gorb
Kiel University
Irena Drevenšek Olenik
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana
12:10 - 15:00
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
Embodied Intelligence in soft robotics: from morphological to neural computation
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
Pomarate Manoonpong
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Matteo Cianchetti
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
16:30 - 19:00
20:00 - ...
Poster session with refreshments
Doctoral colloquium
Conference dinner
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
Robotic hands for prosthetics and industrial automation
Regular 9
Modular design systems 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 fluids from barium hexaferrite nanoplatelets
Regular 11
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Aleš Ude
Dept. of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Darja Lisjak
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
External
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11:50 - 12:00
12:00 - ...
Closing remarks
Lunch break, individual discussions, visits to the labs, etc.
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