Vision and Mission
Founded in the Post-Second World War era, IFToMM’s mission has always been to bring the people from different nationalities and systems together for the exchange of science and the strengthening of international bonds in the general area of mechanism and machine science. Such strong weaving of peoples is more important than ever, and IFToMM is continuing this mission with a strongly growing network of its constituting member organizations. Support is given by promoting national and international conferences in the subject areas of IFToMM, discussing strategies and challenges in 14 open technical committees and 3 permanent commissions, bestowing of awards, sponsoring young conference participants, inspiring enthusiasm in students for mechanism and machine science through Student Olympiads, and most of all by fostering friendship and common work between regions far across the world for the tackling of tomorrows technical challenges.
Latest News

IFToMM EC Meeting & the International Workshop on Advanced Mechanism and Machine Science successfully held at Beijing Jiaotong University, China
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IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2025 – A success story in bringing young researchers together for PhD project presentations and discussions
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First physical IFToMM EC 2024-2027 Meeting EC 2025-01 successfully held at Beijing Jiaotong University with full participation thanks to the kind ausp…
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From Theory to Practice: an Educational Framework to Provide Students Real-world Robotics Experience
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First (virtual) symposium of IFToMM Cross Disciplinary Group 2 “Young Faculty Group” – Join forces to make own carreer and IFToMM fu…
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ASIAN MMS 2024 – A full success story of first-time ever IFToMM conference in Kasakhstan!
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Beijing Winter Olympics Journey for Curling and Skiing Six-Legged Robots – Keynote of Prof. Feng Gao for the MMT Symposium 2024
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No car? No problem! Multibody dynamics enables cyber-physical tests of ePowertrain motors at Universidade da Coruña
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