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The Robot Incubator Attends and Presents at SmallSat 2026

Eddie, Anatol, and Mishu traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, to attend the SmallSat 2026 conference. In the Advanced Technologies session, Eddie presented “Passive Thermal Imaging and Failure Detection of Large-Area Space Structures Using Spin Crossover Composite Skins,” and in Flash Talk Session 2, Anatol presented “A Soft Robot in the Stratosphere.”

Eddie, Anatol, and Mishu standing in front of the SmallSat sign.

Call for Participation: Robotics & Automation in Self-Driving Laboratories Workshop at IROS 2026

We are excited to host a workshop on Self Driving Laboratories at IROS 2026. We are looking for contributions, especially from early career researchers!

See the poster and details below for more information.

Details

Robotics & Automation in Self-Driving Laboratories is a workshop at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, organized by the University of Connecticut, Tufts University, Brown University, and the Vector Institute. The workshop site carries the full program, speaker abstracts, and the contributor abstract submission form: sites.tufts.edu/selfdrivinglabs-iros2026

Key dates

  • Submission deadline — August 31, 2026
  • Decision — September 10, 2026
  • Workshop — September 27, 2026

Invited speakers

  • Keith Brown
    Boston University
  • A. Gilad Kusne
    University of Maryland / NIST
  • Jason Hattrick-Simpers
    University of Toronto
  • Naruki Yoshikawa
    National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
  • Youn-Suk Choi
    Samsung, South Korea
  • Todd Hufnagel
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Daniel van der Weide
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Rong Yang
    Cornell University

Organizing committee

  • Mihai “Mishu” Duduta
    University of Connecticut
  • Markus Nemitz
    Tufts University
  • Miguel Bessa
    Brown University
  • Ang “Leo” Li
    Vector Institute
  • Xuanjiang “William” Liu
    Tufts University