MEDER 2026
The aim of the Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2026) is to bring together researchers, industry
professionals and students from a broad range of disciplines related to mechanisms and robotics to share the latest developments and discuss the directions for the future of mechanism and robotics research. MEDER 2026 continues a successful series of Symposiums that has been started in Mexico 2010, continued in China 2012, in Denmark 2015, in Italy 2018, France 2021 and in Romania 2024.
- Mechanism design
- Education and history of MMS
- Theoretical and computational kinematics
- Experimental mechanics
- Mechanics of robots
- Control issues of mechanical systems
- Machine intelligence
- Innovative mechanisms and applications
- Linkages and manipulators
- Micro-mechanisms
- Dynamics of machinery and multi-body systems
- Smart devices
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