Panels

Name: Panel 6 – Impact and Financial Return on Humanoid Investment
Start: 2026-06-04T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-04T16:30:00+02:00
Location: VIECON – Hall A1

June 2026
Panel 1 – From Humanoid Robotics Research to Startup Creation: The Role of Public Funding

June 2 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

VIECON - Hall A1

Moderators: Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director, Italian Institute of Technology Cecile Huet, Head of Unit, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Excellence, European Commission Participants: Alin Albu-Schäffer, Professor, Technical University of Munich (TUM); Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marco Hutter, Full Professor, ETH Zurich Anna Valente, Professor, University of Applied […]
Panel 2 – Advancing Sustainability in Robotics: From Green Design to Real-World Impact

June 2 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

VIECON - Hall A1

Organizers Bram Vanderborght, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec Barbara Mazzolai, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Moderators and Speakers Session 1 – Green Design (moderator: Bram Vanderborght) Bram Vanderborght, Vrije Universiteit […]
Panel 3 – Building Sustainable and Trustworthy AI for Automation

June 3 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

VIECON - Hall A1

Moderator: Maria Pia Fanti, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Bengt Lennartson, Chalmers University, Sweden Participants/Speakers: Aude Billard, EPFL STI IMT LASA, Swisse Title: Should we start listing domains where not to deploy automation? Ken Goldberg, University of California Berkeley, USA Title: Building Sustainable and Trustworthy AI for Sorting 100 Million E-Commerce Packages. Andra Keay, […]
Panel 4 – Publish or Perish: Surviving the Paper Deluge – Is AI the solution? If not, what is the Solution?

June 3 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

VIECON - Hall A1

Moderator Aude Billard, EPFL Panelists/Speakers Renaud Detry, KU Leuven Greg Dudek, McGill University Nadia Figueroa, Univ. Pennsylvania Dongheui Lee, TUM Shigeki Sugano, Waseda University Kunpeng Yao, University of Leeds Description: As the robotics community faces an unprecedented acceleration in publication volume, staying at the forefront of research has become a monumental challenge. As an example, […]
Panel 5 – “Robots for All” in a Fragmented World: Competing Global Visions and Shared Futures from Europe, Asia, and the United States

June 4 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

VIECON - Hall A1

Moderator: Steve Donswell, Director Gemini Communicating for Business Ltd Participants/Speakers: Francesco Ferro, President euRobotics and Founder and CEO of Pal Robotics Oussama Khatib, Professor of robotics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Robotics Center Description: In today’s rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape, AI-powered robotics has emerged as a strategic priority for governments, industries […]
Panel 6 – Impact and Financial Return on Humanoid Investment

June 4 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

VIECON - Hall A1

Moderator/Speakers: Luis Sentis, The University of Texas at Austin Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics Description: As agile, bipedal robots step out of the lab and rapidly conquer industrial terrain, they invite us to rethink the very nature of work and daily life. Dispelling the lump-of-labor fallacy, cognitive humanoids tap into the elasticity of demand and […]

June 2026