BRS2026 · Day 0 · Optional

Pre-Symposium
Workshop

JST ASPIRE BRS2026 Biohybrid Robotics Symposium, Tokyo

An informal day for early-career researchers, held the day before the symposium opens: short talks from the visiting labs, a guided tour with live demonstrations, and time to meet everyone. Registering helps us plan, but walk-ins are very welcome.

Date
Tuesday, September 15, 202611:00 – 21:00
Venue
The University of TokyoHongo Campus, Engineering Building 2Room 13BC, 1F NewOpen in Google Maps
Fee
Free of chargeFor registered BRS2026 participants
Registration
Requested in advanceWalk-ins welcome
Register for the workshop

You are welcome to join at any point in the day, depending on your travel schedule.

Finding the room

Left: the northeast entrance of Engineering Building 2, with an inset campus map marking the building near the Yayoi Gate. Right: the doorway of Engineering Building 2, with an arrow pointing to the venue just inside on the first floor. First floor of Engineering Building 2 A simplified plan of the first floor. Room 13BC, made up of seminar rooms 13B and 13C, occupies the corner of the North Wing. The toilets are immediately east of it on the same corridor. That corridor runs the width of the floor, past the 213 Lecture Hall, and connects to a bank of three lifts in the south-west of the floor and on to the Old Wing. 13BC MECH SEMINAR ROOMS 13B + 13C TOILETS WC 3 LIFTS LIFT STAIRS 121 120 119 117 118 12A 12B Lecture Room 212 12C 213 Lecture Hall 111 109·108 107 106 11C Lecture Room 211 101·102 103·104·105 North Wing Old Wing
Enter Engineering Building 2 by the northeast entrance, nearest the Yayoi Gate. Room 13BC — seminar rooms 13B and 13C opened into one — is on the first floor, in the corner of the North Wing, with toilets next door.Open the building in Google Maps

The day at a glance

11:0014:0017:0021:00

Morning

11:00 – 12:00
11:00 – 11:1010 min

Opening

  • Nimo (Kazuki Nishimoto) Organizer
  • Yuina Abe Organizer
11:10 – 12:0050 min

Personal introductions

All participants

12:00 – 13:0060 min

Lunch

Lab tour

13:00 – 13:30
13:00 – 13:3030 min

Takeuchi Lab

Guided tour of the laboratory

Demonstrations and exhibition

13:30 – 14:50
13:30 – 13:5020 min

Takeuchi Lab

Biohybrid actuators

  • Shota Noda
  • Shotaro Saito
13:50 – 14:1020 min

Takeuchi Lab

Biohybrid skin

14:10 – 14:3020 min

Morishima Lab

Live Cyborg Insect Demonstration

  • Chowdhury Mohammad Masum Refat
  • Xiaofeng Zheng
  • Kaicheng Zhao
  • Kotaro Yamamoto
14:30 – 14:5020 min

Terutsuki Lab

From Moth-Antenna Drones to Mosquito-Antenna Sensors: Advancing Mobile Biohybrid Olfaction

  • Chihiro Fukui
  • Reina Omori
14:50 – 15:0010 min

Break

Lab presentations

15:00 – 17:30
15:00 – 15:2020 min

Katzschmann Lab

ETH ZurichEngineering the Design, Maturation, and Control of Muscle-Driven Biohybrid Actuators

  • Aiste Balciunaite
  • Asia Badolato
  • Pablo Paniagua
  • Manuel Mekkattu
15:20 – 15:4020 min

Skylar-Scott Lab

Stanford UniversityThe Skylar-Scott lab - towards bioprinting a fully functioning human heart.

  • Soham Sinha
15:40 – 15:5515 min

Break

15:55 – 16:1520 min

Bashir Lab

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAdvancing Biohybrid Robotics: From Muscle Actuation to Neural Programming

  • Katy Wolhaupter
16:15 – 16:3520 min

Sánchez Lab

Institute for Bioengineering of CataloniaEngineering skeletal muscle-based bioactuators

  • Marina Rovira
  • Florencia Lezcano
16:35 – 16:5015 min

Break

16:50 – 17:1020 min

Rossiter Lab

University of BristolProgramming Matter: From Soft Robotics to Living Systems

  • Lei Wu
  • Yige Chen
17:10 – 17:3020 min

Parker Lab

Harvard UniversityElectrophysiological Design of Biohybrid Robotics

  • Michio Kawai

Closing and evening

17:30 – 21:00
17:30 – 18:0030 min

Summary and Q&A session

18:00 – 21:00180 min

Evening event

Networking, continuing on from the workshop