The Robotics GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
This seminar will be the third GRS dedicated to Robotics. This year’s theme is “Robotics Across Scales”, examining robotic systems across multiple dimensions – including spatial, temporal, and properties-related. For instance, from nanostructures to megastructures, from stiff to soft, from slow to rapid movements, and from artificial to biological, the field demands innovative ideas and solutions that bridge scales in various domains. This seminar will foster discussions around sub-themes such as self-regulation, fabrication, scalability, modularity, autonomy, and complexity – concepts fundamental to understanding and advancing robotics across scales.
We aim to bring together innovative, interdisciplinary thinkers to share ideas about the most pressing and meaningful problems that should be studied in the next decade to transform how robots interact with humans and their environment across scales. Building a network of young roboticists, engineers, soft matter physicists, and biologists fluent in cross-cutting research themes will create a foundation for advancing the field far into the future with profound implications for the field of robotics.
The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for young researchers from all over the world to get to know each other and discuss exciting ideas around the rapidly changing, multidisciplinary scientific field that is Robotics.
Application Instructions
The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The seminar chair will select speakers from abstracts submitted by October 5, 2025. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Information section above.
Program Format
Gordon Research Seminars are 2-day meetings which take place on the Saturday and Sunday just prior to the start of the associated GRC. The GRS opens with a 1-hour introductory session on Saturday afternoon, followed by a poster session, dinner and a 2-hour session in the evening. Sunday morning begins with breakfast and is followed by another 2-hour session, a second poster session, and lunch. A final 1-hour session takes place just after lunch, and the associated GRC begins later that evening.
