Yang Gao

Professor, KCL King’s College London

• Prof. Gao is the elected Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Journal of Field Robotics, the Section Editor, Associate Editor or Guest Editor of other international journals such as Springer's Current Robotics Reports, Frontiers' Robotics and AI, IEEE-CIM, and IEEE-AESM, and the Chair/Co-Chair/Member of technical committees such as IMechE Engage in Space Committee, IEEE-CIS Task Force and IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Space Robotics. Prof. Gao was the Conference General Chair of TAROS-2017 (the longest running UK-hosted international conference on AI robotics), the Conference Co-Chair of Light Conference 2018, the Conference Publicity Co-Chair of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM-2019), and the Invited Speaker or Session Chair of scientific conferences and seminars (such as ESA AI-STAR, IEEE-UK/Ireland RAS Prestigious Lecture, IEEE ICRA-Space Workshop, IEEE-CDC, iSAIRAS, UK Space Conference, World Congress of Robotics, IET Seminars, UK-RAS International Robotics Showcase, EMSTA Prestige Seminar, UK Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration Series, RiTA, etc).

Zexu Zhang

Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology

• Prof. Zhang is Vice Dean of the Institute of Complex Environment Architecture, Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory for Rapid Design and Intelligent Cluster of Micro Spacecraft, Director of the Institute of Vehicle Dynamics and Control at the School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Director of the Deep Space Exploration Basic Research Center, and Chairman of the Professor Committee of Aerospace Science and Technology. Chief Scientist of Key Basic Research Projects under the 2020 and 2024 Basic Strengthening Plan. Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Space Sciences and Chairman of the Space Intelligence Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Space Sciences; Member of the Deep Space Exploration Technology Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics; Member of the Command and Control Network Professional Committee of the Chinese Accusation Society.

Meibao Yao

Associate professor, Jilin University

• Prof. Yao serves as the head of the Intelligent Robot Laboratory, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University. She is youth committee member of the Space Intelligence Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Space Sciences. She serves as youth editorial board member and guest editor of Astrodynamics (CAS Q1, IF=6.4), an international journal in aerospace and astronautics. She also served as the workshop chair of the IES-ONCON 2023, IEEE-ICIT 2022, and ICASD2023 conference, as well as the area chair of the IEEE-ICPS 2021 conference and won the Best Presentation Award in Session. She served as the workshop chair of the ICRAIC 2021 conference and won the Best Organization Award and Outstanding Contribution Award. She was member of the Organizing Committee for the third International Lunar Day Event (IMD 2024), and member of the Scientific Committee of the AI in and for Space (SPACE2025) conference.

Xueming Xiao

Associate professor, Changchun University of Science and Technology

• Prof. Xiao heads the Computer Vision and Intelligent Robots Laboratory at Changchun University of Science and Technology. He serves as senior member of the Chinese Society of Astronautics, Youth Committee Member of the Space Intelligence Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Space Sciences. He is member of the Intelligent Robotics Committee of the Chinese Computer Society and member of the Organizing Committee for the third International Day of the Moon (IMD 2024). He also served as the workshop chair of the IES-ONCON 2023 and ICASD2023 conferences. He was appointed as youth editorial board member and guest editor of Astrodynamics, an international SCI journal in the field of aerospace (CAS Q1, IF=6.4).

Title:Soft Robotics for Agrifood applications

Zhongkui Wang

Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

• Prof. Zhongkui Wang received the Ph.D. degree in robotics from Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan, in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2014, he was a Research Associate and a Postdoctoral Fellow, respectively, with Ritsumeikan University. During his Postdoc, he visited ETH Zurich for six months as a visiting scholar. From 2014-2019, he was an Assistant Professor with Ritsumeikan University. Since 2019, he became an Associate Professor with Ritsumeikan University. His research interests mainly include soft robotics, 4D printing, biomedical engineering, and automation in food industry and agriculture.
• He received the Best Paper Award on Robotics at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Realtime Computing and Robotics, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 24th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics. In addition, he served as the General Chair of IEEE RCAR 2025, and Organizing Committee Members of many other international conferences, such as IEEE ICRA 2024, IEEE/SICE SII 2024, IEEE/RSJ IROS 2022, and so on. Prof. Wang is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of RSJ and JSME.

Title:Towards Specialised Robotic Systems in Challenging Environments

Mingfeng Wang

Associate Professor, Brunel University of London, UK

• Dr Mingfeng Wang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Robotics & Autonomous Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brunel University of London. Before joining Brunel, he was a Research Fellow (2017.08-2021.06) at the Rolls-Royce UTC in Manufacturing and On-Wing Repair, University of Nottingham (UK), and worked as a principal researcher on inspection and maintenance robotics for the aerospace and nuclear industry. Before this, he was a Senior Research Associate (2016.08-2017.08) at the National Centre for Precision Farming, Harper Adams University (UK), and worked on laser weeding robotics for organic farming.
• His research interests focus on innovative design, modelling and control of specialised robotic systems, aiming to tackle challenging maintenance and repair operations (MRO) in hazardous environments (e.g. rail, air, nuclear, etc). He currently is leading two research projects (one from EPSRC and the other from Brunel University London) covering these research interests. In recognition of his innovation in the specialised robotics for MRO, Dr Wang is the university (Brunel University London) representative member of the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network (UKRRIN) and Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB).
• With more than 10 years’ experience in robotics, he has participated as the leading researcher in a number of projects funded by the EPSRC (Through-life performance: From science to instrumentation 2017-2021, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN) 2017-2022) and Innovate UK (HyperWeeding 2016-2017, FLARE 2017-2019). In the last five years, he has published more than 40 papers in leading journals (IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, etc.) and conferences (IROS, ICRA, CASE, etc.) and filed 3 international patents.

Title:Key Technologies of Active Exoskeletons and Their Ground Testing Aimed at Long-term Lunar Habitation

Yanfang Liu

Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

• Yanfang Liu is a professor and doctoral supervisor in Harbin Institute of Technology. He was awarded the titles of National High-Level Young Talent, Distinguished Young Scholar of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, "Xiaomi" Young Scholar, and Young Science and Technology Award winner of Heilongjiang Province. He engaged in research on visual target recognition, pose measurement, positioning and tracking technology, autonomous intelligence of aerial vehicles, intelligent assembly and testing, mechatronics and its ground-based simulation testing, specialized wafer forming and precision sand-etching processing of specialized chips, etc.
• He serves as an editorial board member of Aerospace Systems, Journal of Astronautics, Journal of Mechanical Engineering (English Edition), etc. He has received one National Technological Invention Second Prize, three First Prizes of Technological Invention at the provincial and ministerial levels, and one Heilongjiang Provincial Patent Silver Award. He has published over 90 academic papers, more than 60 invention patents, and led multiple national-level research projects,

Title:Biomimetic Self Balancing Drilling Technology and Equipment

Yan Zhao

Professor, Jilin University, China