[Call for Extended Abstracts] AI for Wearable Robotics and Neurorehabilitation (AIWR) Special Session@ICNR2026 Korea

[Pablo Lanillos]

Do you work at the intersection of AI/ML, Wearable Robotics, and Neurorehabilitation?

Submit an extended abstract to this Special Session @ the main track of the International Conference on Neurorehabilitation (ICNR2026) in KOREA

🔺 SPECIAL SESSION AICM02. Artificial Intelligence for Wearable Robotics and Neurorehabilitation (AIWR)

📆 Send your EXTENDED ABSTRACT to SS AICM02 by 15th March (no extensions)⚠️
Instructions to submit here: https://2026.icneurorehab.org/abstract-submissions/
Abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
-Indicate if you want your Extended Abstract to be considered for an oral presentation or poster, and if you want to be considered in a post-conference publication in a journal.

➕ Program and Speakers
Block 1: AI for wearable robots
⚫ Guillaume Durandau, McGill University, Canada. “Neuromuscular Modeling and Digital Twins for Wearable Robots”.
⚫Shuzhen Luo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. “AI-powered exoskeletons revolutionizing rehabilitation and mobility”.  (to be confirmed)
⚫ David Rodriguez-Cianca, Spanish National Research Council. “Reinforcement Learning for Exoskeleton Control”.

Debate block 1: Generative AI for neurorehabilitation, trend or solution?
Moderator: Pablo Lanillos (CSIC), Participants: Guillaume Durandau (McGill), R James Cotton (Shirley Ryan Ability), Shuzhen Luo (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), David Rodriguez-Cianca (CSIC).

Block 2: AI for therapeutic interventions
⚫R. James Cotton, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab. “AI Powered Biomechanics for Precision Rehabilitation”. Confirmed
⚫Annemarie F Laudanski, Spanish National Research Council. “Multimodal Approaches for Neuromuscular and Musculoskeletal Disease Detection: biomechanical and neuromuscular insights”.

Debate block 2: Biomarker discovery for the evaluation of motor conditions
Moderator: Jorge A. Gomez García (CSIC). Participants: Diego Torricelli (Biorobotics, CSIC), A. F. Laudanski (CSIC), James Cotton (Shirley Ryan Ability), Filipe Oliveira Barroso (Neural Engineering Lab, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC)

Topics of interest:
* Neuro-musculoskeletal simulators and digital twins for personalized therapy and WR control
* Machine learning and AI for multimodal data analytics and therapies
* Reinforcement learning and data-driven control in wearable robotics
* Neuro AI in Wearables and Rehabilitation.
* Sensor fusion and AI-based assessment of motor performance and therapy outcomes.
* Collaboration AI-therapist.

---Organizers:----
Jorge Andrés Gómez García, Center for Automation and Robotics, CSIC, Spain
Andrés Chavarrías Sánchez, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC, Spain
David Rodriguez-Cianca, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC, Spain
Filipe Oliveira Barroso, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC, Spain
Pablo Lanillos, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC, Spain

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Dr Pablo Lanillos
Neuro AI and Robotics group |  neuro-ai-robotics.github.io
Cajal Neuroscience Center | Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.
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European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) unit Nijmegen, the Netherlands