2nd Workshop on Building Safe Robots

Beyond the Lab: From Robotics and Embodied AI Research to Deployable Systems

Workshop Program

Three application domains. Research, practice and certification in conversation.

Each 90-minute domain session combines an academic presentation (25 minutes), a practitioner presentation (25 minutes), a certification and validation perspective (15 minutes), and a moderated Safety Translation Debate (25 minutes). Participant questions and contributed work inform the discussions.

Date: TBD Time: 08:30–18:00 (tentative) Format: Full day

Tentative program from the updated workshop proposal. The workshop date and final timings will be confirmed following acceptance. All times are local to Seoul (KST).

Agenda

08:30–08:45

Opening

Opening and welcome

08:45–10:15

Domain 01

Safety in Healthcare, Assistive, and Surgical Robotics

  1. Academic perspective · 25 minArianna Menciassi — Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
    Surgical robot development
  2. Practitioner perspective · 25 minDirk Wilhelm — Technical University of Munich / TUM University Hospital, Germany
    Practical surgical robotics
  3. Certification & validation perspective · 15 minTamás Haidegger — Óbuda University, Hungary · Safety and certification of surgical robots
  4. Safety Translation Debate · 25 minAll three contributors and the audience discuss deployment assumptions, safety evidence, validation and certification challenges.
10:15–10:45

Coffee & posters

10:45–12:30

Contributed work

Selected talks, teasers & interactive clinics

Selected contributions and participant questions about deployment, safety, validation and certification, with feedback from researchers and practitioners.

12:30–14:00

Lunch break

14:00–15:30

Domain 02

Safety in Industry and Manufacturing

  1. Academic perspective · 25 minNadia Figueroa — University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Safe adaptive control
  2. Practitioner perspective · 25 minSeungju Lee — Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Republic of Korea
    Industrial robot deployment
  3. Certification & validation perspective · 15 minBenedikt Pulver — TÜV SÜD, Germany · Safety and certification of industrial machinery
  4. Safety Translation Debate · 25 minAll three contributors and the audience discuss deployment assumptions, safety evidence, validation and certification challenges.
15:30–16:00

Coffee & posters

16:00–17:30

Domain 03

Safety Beyond Structured Workspaces: Field and High-Consequence Robotics

  1. Academic perspective · 25 minTetsuya Kimura — Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
    Field safety research
  2. Practitioner perspective · 25 minIpek Caliskanelli — UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), UK
    Nuclear and fusion robotics applications
  3. Certification & validation perspective · 15 minMichela Rossi — European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) · Robotics for maintenance
  4. Safety Translation Debate · 25 minAll three contributors and the audience discuss deployment assumptions, safety evidence, validation and certification challenges.
17:30–18:00

Closing synthesis

Lab-to-Real Safety Gap Map

An organizer-led synthesis with certification and regulation contributors, bringing together shared barriers, domain-specific differences, and priorities for research and validation.

Invited speakers Call for papers