4th International Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics at UC Irvine

[Anurag Purwar]

Dear MR committee member:

2026 MSR-Irvine welcomes papers on Specialized Robotic Systems; Soft, Wearable & Origami Robotic Systems; Applications to Walking, Flying, Climbing, Ground, Underground, Swimming & Space Systems, Human Rehabilitation & Performance Augmentation; Design and Analysis of Mechanisms & Machines; Human-Robot Collaborative Systems; Service Robotics; Mechanical Systems & Robotics Education; Commercialization of Mechanical Systems & Robotics; and related topics. 

The 2026 MSR Symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in a single volume and indexed in Scopus, Ei Compendex, and Web of Science. Selected authors will be invited to submit expanded versions of their paper for archival publications in a special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. 

Dates and Venue: Thursday through Saturday, May 21-23, 2026 at the University of California, Irvine Campus

Important Dates:
December 19, 2025 Submission of full papers
January 16, 2026 Submission of reviews
January 30, 2026 Notice of decision
February 27, 2026 Submission of final papers
April 14, 2026 Early registration deadline

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/2026msr-irvine/home

Sponsors: 2026 MSR Symposium is organized in partnership with the Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM) and with the patronage of the International Federation of the Theory of Mechanisms and Machine Science.

Organizing Committee:

J. Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine, jmmc...@uci.edu
Nina Robson, California State University, Fullerton, nro...@fullerton.edu
Pierre Larochelle, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, pierre.l...@sdsmt.edu
Craig Lusk, University of South Florida, clu...@usf.edu
Anurag Purwar, Stony Brook University, anurag...@stonybrook.edu

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Anurag Purwar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Computer-Aided Design and Innovation Lab

Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

NSF I-Corps Principal Investigator at Stony Brook University

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook

Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300 USA
Phone: (631) 632-8542, Fax: (631) 632-8544