General Dissemination Activities
Date | Activity | Contributors | Title | Weblink |
10 June 2020 | Virtual Industry Fair – Industry 4.0 | Bram Vanderborght | Industry 5.0 – Combining strengths of humand and robots | https://hopin.to/events/virtual-industry-fair |
Presentation BIR&D award | Seppe Terryn | Self-healing soft robots | ||
02 June 2020 | Presentation Solvay award | Seppe Terryn | Investigation of self-healing actuators for robotics | |
23 September 2020 | Presentation Vlaamse PhD Award | Seppe Terryn | Lang Leve(n)de RObot | https://www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/dit-zijn-de-acht-finalisten-van-de-vlaamse-phd-cup |
14-15 /09/2020 | Presentation for first year ESPCI engineering students | François Tournilhac & Camille Bakkali-Hassani | Vitrimers for soft robotics | |
09 October 2020 | Visit | Bram Vanderborght. – Seppe Terryn | European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders and Bruno LIEBHABERG, Director General of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) for a private visit to the AI Experience | https://lnkd.in/duiESHV |
24 November 2020 | Science Battle | Ellen Roels | Moet een robot naar de dokter? | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0LKtah5go&feature=youtu.be |
01 December 2020 | Achtagung Kollaborative Robotik – Autonome Transportsysteme und Innovative Greiferlösungen – | Bram Vanderborght | Self healing soft robotic grippers | https://www.vde.com/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsuebersicht/veranstaltung-detailseite?id=19243&type=vde%7Cvdb |
13 January 2021 | Presentation for first year ESPCI PhD students | Camille Bakkali-Hassani, Quentin Poutrel, Jakob Langenbach | Vitrimers for soft robotics | |
29 April 2021 | Presentation PhD seminar of Empa | Antonia Georgopoulou | Prosthetic hand with integrated deformation and temperature sensing elements, fabricated with fused deposition modeling | |
13 August 2021 | Soft Robotics Impact: Exploratory Research vs. Application Oriented Solutions | Fumiya Iida | http://softrobotics.org/soft-robotics-debates/ | |
29 March 2021 | UHasselt guest lecture eSOC | ET | Bram Vanderborght | Robotics Homo Roboticus | |
07 April 2021 | VLAMEF-Webinar: | Bram Vanderborght | Innovatieve robots, cobots & exoskeletons | https://www.vlamef.be/nl/video-presentaties |
11 May 2021 | De Warande | Bram Vanderborght | The next step in Robotics | |
26 May 2023 | Finales Red Robotegem (Robocup Junior | Bram Vanderborght | Robots | https://www.robocupjunior.be/finale-red-robotegem-vanaf-1400/ |
19 October 2021 | Televic techdays | Bram Vanderborght | Homo Roboticus | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6859453340342923265/ |
26 October 2021 | Voka Nostradamus | Bram Vanderborght | Homo Roboticus | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6859400250893889536/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6859400250893889536%2C6859403215155339265) |
29 May 2020 | JakajimaTV interview | Bram Vanderborght | JakajimaTV interview with Professor Bram | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gewL6H8nDuc&list=PLIEoQ3awU9RbZBpC7BTu4B8jNUW3f4ryH&index=3 |
09 November 2021 | Presentation at doctoral school | Jakob Langenbach | Vitrimers for soft robotics | https://jed397.sciencesconf.org/ |
30 October 2021 | Presentation at PhD Symposium of Empa | Antonia Georgopoulou | Making sense of soft robots | https://events.empa.ch/Veranstaltungsarchiv/2021/event.php?vnr=265-10c |
09 December 2021 | Interview for students of Sorbonne University | François Tournilhac & Jakob Langenbach | Vitrimers for soft robotics | https://youtu.be/_erllp-0InQ |
Q4 2021 | Coaching of high school graduation candidates | Tonny Bosman | Profile paper on self-healing materials | |
26 June 2021 | Soapbox Science | Ellen Roels | What can robots learn from nature | http://soapboxscience.org/soapbox-science-2021-brussels/ |
24 September 2021 | WiseNight | Ellen Roels | Soapbox Science stand | https://wisenight.eu/nl/activities/de-stand-soapbox-science-brussels/ |
01 January 2022 | Presentation for first year ESPCI PhD students | Jakob Langenbach, Francois Tournilhac | Vitrimers for soft robotics | |
14 April 2022 | Presentation for C3M laboratory | Camille Bakkali-Hassani | Synthesis of polymeric materials by organic and enzymatic catalysis | |
04 June 2022 | Nerdland festival | Ellen Roels | De grote robotshow | |
02 June 2022 | Artistic documentary about our work on self-healing soft robots by Inshallah Montero | Julie Legrand, Bram Vanderborght, Seppe Terryn,Ellen Roels | Reversible | |
14-16 Oct 2022 | Workshop for kids and general public | Fatma Demir | How to make a soft robotic finger? | shorturl.at/mpRY1 |
24 October 2022 | InnnovFest, bringing innovation to companies | Simon Beckers | Self healing soft robots | https://www.vlaio.be/nl/events/innovfest-vlaanderen-7-clusters-1-doel-innovatie-bij-bedrijven-brengen-221024 |
16-17/5/2022 | FutureSummits2022 | Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght | Self healing soft robots | https://www.futuresummits.com/2022/itf-belgium |
25 March 2022 | Homo Roboticus Kinshasa @ economic mission Brussels Government | Bram Vanderborght | Self healing soft robots | |
28 October 2022 | Techtransfer week VUB | Bram Vanderborght | Brubotics | https://vubtechtransfer.be/en/techtransfer-week-2022 |
06 October 2022 | HRTech, Antwepren, 6/10/2022: | Bram Vanderborght | Industry 5.0 working with robots and exoskeletons | https://hrtech.be |
02 October 2022 | Humanistisch verbond Mortsel | Bram Vanderborght | Homo Roboticus | |
13 May 2022 | Ngage keynote talk | Bram Vanderborght | Homo Roboticus | |
12 October 2022 | Textbook illustration showing robotic hand — To be published in 2023 | François Tournilhac | Soft Matter – concepts, phenomena, applications (By W. van Saarloos, V. Vitelli, Z. Zeravcic) | https://www.press.princeton.edu/ |




Conferences and Workshop Presentations
Embodied Intelligence Workshop 2021 (~ 1000 attendees)

EI’21 International Workshop brought together a wide range of speakers to discuss the many challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research. Each session includes plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions as shown in the tentative programme here.
Embodied Intelligence Conference 2022 (1000+ attendees)

Build on success of the EI’21 Workshop, the EI’22 Conference included even wider range of speakers that introduced conference attendees to exciting opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research. The workshop is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions as shown in the tentative programme here.
Embodied Intelligence Workshop at Robosoft 2022
There has been a long-standing philosophical debate about the relationship between body and mind. Today this debate still powers a profound scientific desire to deepen our understanding of the nature of both animals’ and machines’ intelligent, adaptive behavior. To gain further insights into intelligence and explore how our brain and whole selves develop through physical interactions with the world, Embodied Intelligence places the physical entity of the human body at the center of this subject. In the age of AI and Machine Learning, Embodied Intelligence research remains highly important as it can deliver valuable input which enhances the impact of conventional AI technology.
SHERO programme members made poster presentations.
Cambridge Science Festival
School and General Public Event: Future of Robotics
Who is the event aimed at? This event was aimed at KS3/KS4 Computer Science and Engineering pupils and, in addition, the general public. This exciting and informative event has been received well by attendees We will also touch on concepts central to the Computer Science GCSE and A Level Curriculum, to demonstrate how these fundamental concepts play a significant role in cutting edge robotics research.
SMART Winter School on Soft Robotics

The 1st International Winter was academic in nature, but with a strong involvement of industry. It aimed to provide scientific and personal development for young researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of soft robotics and smart materials. For this purpose, leading in the field of smart materials and Robotics researchers and industry members will give presentations and talks on scientific and technical aspects in the various fields of Robotics, AI and soft materials. Programme can be found here.