08/14/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda de Oliveira Barros, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (IMSE), and Vinícius Xavier, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, on having their research accepted to the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), one of the world's premier robotics conferences.
Their paper introduces a soft magnetic walking robot designed to retrieve missing IUD strings, offering a promising minimally invasive alternative to conventional clinical procedures.
Out of 4,348 submissions, only 1,585 papers were accepted, resulting in a 36% acceptance rate. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!