Climate Robotics Summit 2026
How Can Robotics Scale Climate Action?
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3-Day Program
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Welcome & Opening Remarks
Patrick Meier (Climate Robotics Network) and Berk Çallı (WPI) open the summit.
Welcome from Our Gold Sponsor
Jesica Chavez, RoboSuccess.
Keynote: Anna Lerner Nesbitt
CEO of the Climate Collective, on web3 infrastructure for verifiable climate action at scale.
Session 1: Biodiversity and Robotics
Raphael Zufferey (MIT), Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist (USD), Davide Di Blasi (IIT), Annette Govindarajan (WHOI), Jürg Germann (Inverto Earth).
Session 2: Start-up Pitches
Amy Ma (Danu Robotics), Annie Aixa Rosas Hernández (Bluekali).
Session 3: Energy Infrastructure
Alan Papalia (Univ. Michigan), Charles Dawson (Emerald AI), Dave Lane (Heriot-Watt / SeaByte), Yvan Petillot (Heriot-Watt).
Day 2 Opening Remarks
Alan Papalia, University of Michigan.
Keynote: Cathy Wu
MIT — machine learning for control and optimization for sustainable mobility.
Session 4: Earth and Ocean Observations
Matthew Palmer (Met Office), Enrico Ajanic (Meteomatics), Michal Adamkiewicz (WindBorne), Maarja Kruusmaa (TalTech), Weifeng "Gordon" Zhang (WHOI).
Session 5: Funding Climate Robotics
Benjamin Maitland-Lewis (SVB), Edgar Ke (Marble), Fady Saad (Cybernetix Ventures / MassRobotics), Andy Gollach (SOSV / HAX).
Session 6: Recycling Management and Robotics
Manuel G. Catalano (IIT), Alireza Rastegarpanah (Birmingham), Anwar Al Assadi (Fraunhofer), Alan Winfield (UWE / York), Helen McGloin (Bristol Robotics).
Day 3 Opening Remarks
Stefano Mintchev.
Keynote: Thomas Walla
Colorado Mesa University / Limelight Rainforest — 2024 XPRIZE Rainforest Grand Prize winner, on transformative biodiversity-sampling tech in tropical forests.
Session 7: Built Environment and Efficiency via Robotics
Mirko Kovac (EPFL), Norhan Bayomi (Lamarr.AI / MIT), John Fernandez (MIT), Ramon Weber (UC Berkeley), Stefana Parascho (EPFL), Dylan Crow (Renovate Robotics).
Session 8: Research Pitches
Kaushik Jayaram (Imperial), Enrica Zereik (CNR), Kevin Andrew Holdcroft (EPFL), Galen Brown (WPI).
Session 9: Water Access and Conservation via Robotics
Simona Aracri (CNR), André Farinha (CSIRO), Adrien Desjardins (UBC), Guillaume Féry.
Closing Remarks
Berk Çallı, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Catch Up on Summit 2025
While 2026 recordings are being prepared, browse all 33 sessions from our 2025 summit.
View Summit 2025 Archive