4th International Workshop on Insect Bioinspired Technologies
19th-20th May 2025, Wageningen, NL
The conference
Why?
The 4th edition of the International Workshop on the Insect Bio-inspired Technologies is happening on May 19-20, 2025. Our warmest welcome, and we look forward to seeing you in Wageningen, NL. Thanks to the sponsors: The Company of Biologists, Dutch Research Council (NWO), and J.M. Burgerscentrum.
Nature-inspired science, engineering and technology has become extremely popular over the last few years as reflected by the exponential increase of number of journal articles on the topic published each year. The Netherlands has been at the forefront of bio-inspiration as evidenced by the current work on flying drones, medical devices, pest management, and biomimetic grippers. It is therefore rightly fitting that Wageningen hosts the 4th International Workshop on Insect Bio-Inspired Technologies.
What?
With millions of species, arthropods are an ideal platform for bio-inspiration for a variety of applications ranging from sensing modalities, bio-robotics or elastic properties of cuticle, to name but a few. The miniaturization of the nuts and bolts within insects, combined with speed and precision of control, is furthermore a marvel. Beyond their sheer number which implies a multitude of possible models, insects are thus an excellent source of bio-inspired designs because of their size, of the order of the millimetre, which matches in many ways the one of micro- and nano-technological systems. This often promotes system scale approach as a more sound method for the observer.
Who?
Following the highly successful workshop in Tours, 2017, Grenoble, 2019 and in Edinburgh, 2022 we have again collated a series of talks from international speakers that balances biology, physics and engineering. The Scientific Program includes 17 invited speakers, a poster session, and keynote lectures from Prof. Michael Dickinson and Prof. Jerome Casas. We believe these works and visions to be of the highest interest to micro-technologists, systems engineers and biologists. Attendees are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation.
Keynote Speakers
Michael H. Dickinson
Jerome Casas
University of Tours