IEEE ICMA 2026

Plenary Talks

Plenary Talk 1

Human Centered Autonomy

Henrik Christensen, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Director of Robotics

Contextual Robotics Institute

University of California, San Diego

https://cri.ucsd.edu

Plenary Talk 2

Model Driven Mechatronics in Medical Robot Design

Blake Hannaford, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Director, UW Biorobotics Lab

University of Washington

Seattle WA USA

https://www.ece.uw.edu/people/blake-hannaford

Plenary Talk 3

Medical MicroRobotics and NanoMedicine: Future Directions in Medical Robotics

Bradley Nelson, Ph.D

Professor, ETH Zurich

Head of Dep. of Mechanical and Process Eng.

Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote Speech

Keynote Speech

Nano-Tactile Sensors for Visualization of Texture: Achieving Super-Human Performance via Deep Learning

Hidekuni Takao, Ph.D.

Professor and Director

Nano/Micro Structure Device Integrated Research Center

Kagawa University

https://researchmap.jp/read0057664?lang=en