ICRA2026

A few days at ICRA2026 gave our team exactly what conferences are meant to give: time together, good conversations, familiar faces, new encounters, and a renewed sense of where robotics is moving.

This year felt especially nice because our team in Vienna also included Maja Trumic, currently at TU Delft working on the 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁-𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗦𝗖𝗔. It meant a lot to share this experience again in person, even while our work now stretches across different labs, cities, and projects.

We were also happy to see CITADELS – Horizon WIDERA, the project coordinated by ETF Robotics, present its Catalogue of Deeptech TestBeds https://lnkd.in/dmqrcu2B. For us, that mattered not only because the project had a visible place at such an important conference, but because it opened space to talk about the kind of ecosystem we care about building: one that connects research, people, infrastructure, and new opportunities in robotics and DeepTech.

One particularly meaningful stop for us was the AGIBOT booth, because AGIBOT is openning a factory for humanoid robots in Serbia. During the visit, our group leader Kosta Jovanovic presented a book about 𝗠𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗿 𝗩𝘂𝗸𝗼𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗰, one of the pioneers of Serbian robotics, whose work on the 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 as we know it today. It was a simple gesture, but one that carried a lot of meaning for us – bringing a small but important piece of our scientific heritage into a conversation about where robotics is heading next.

What we will probably remember most, though, is not a single session or booth, but the feeling of being there together, moving through the conference, exchanging impressions, discussing ideas as they came, and seeing how our own work fits into a much wider robotics landscape.