| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Opening | All co-organizers |
| 9:05 | Koichi Suzumori | 9:05-9:25 Soft robotics history and overview (part 1) 9:25-9:45 Soft Robotics Applications in Medicine: Self-Propelled Soft Robot for Colonoscopy and X-Ray Transparent Soft Robot for Gastro Fluoroscopy (part 2) Chair: Shingo Maeda |
| 9:50 | Poster Teaser Session | A set of brief (3 min) presentations of the poster highlights Chair: Kanty Rabenorosoa |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| | Session 1 | Innovative design and modeling Chair: Shingo Maeda |
| 11:00 | Hiroyuki Nabae | Pneumatic Soft Actuators for Medical and Nursing Applications |
| 11:20 | Tania Morimoto | Soft robot design – from surgery to rehabilitation |
| 11:40 | Taha Chikhaoui | Towards bridging gaps in continuum robotics research |
| 12:00 | Jiewen Lai | Motion Planning for Soft Continuum Robots Toward Robot-Assisted Surgery |
| 12:20 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 | Poster Interactive Session | Can continue during the break in the afternoon |
| 14:00 | Ian D. Walker | Continuum Robots: Progress and Challenges Chair: Kanty Rabenorosoa |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| | Session 2 | Novel hardware Chair: Pietro Valdastri
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| 15:30 | Quentin Boehler | Challenges and opportunities of continuum robots in minimally invasive interventions |
| 15:50 | Caleb D. Rucker | EndoTheia, Inc.: next-generation devices for flexible endoscopy |
| 16:10 | Vito Cacucciolo
| Solid-State Soft Pumps for digital fluidics |
| | Session 3
| Sensing and Control Chair: Hongliang Ren |
| 16:30 | Sven Lilge
| Continuum Robot State Estimation Using Gaussian Process Regression |
| 16:50 | Thomas G. Thuruthel | Enabling touch-based manipulation in soft robots |
| 17:10 | Panel Discussion and Summary | |
| 17:25 | Closing remarks
| All co-organizers |
