SPECIAL SESSIONS
WeR1. Wearable sensors for robotic exoskeletons
Organizer: Andrea Mannini, Assistant Professor, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna


WeR2. Soft Wearable Robots
Organizers: Conor J. Walsh, SEAS Harvard; Jesús Ortiz, IIT-ADVR; Eduardo Rocon, CSIC; Lucia Beccai, IIT-CMBR; Chris Baten, RRD; Freygardur Thorsteinsson, Össur; Julia Götz, Accelopment.


WeR3. Subject-centered based approaches for controlling Wearable Robots
Organizers: Samer Mohammed, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France; Mohamed Bouri, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.


WeR4. Robotic and neuroprosthetic balance management approaches for walking assistance
Organizers: Antonio del Ama, National Spinal Cord Injury Hospital, Spain; Juan Moreno, Cajal Institute, Spain; and Jan Veneman, Hocoma AG.


WeR5. Benchmarking wearable robots
Organizers: Diego Torricelli, Cajal Institute, Jan Veneman, Hocoma AG, Simona Crea, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna


WeR6. Flexible and Transparent Technologies for Innovative Wearable Robotics
Organizers: Anselmo Frizera Neto, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil); Carlos A. Cifuentes, Colombian School of Engineering (Colombia).


WeR7. Wearable Robotics for rehabilitation and assistance in Latin America
Organizers: Juan-Manuel Ibarra Zannatha, CINVESTAV, Mexico; Alberto-Isaac Pérez-SanPablo, Mexican National Institute for Rehabilitation /CINVESTAV, Mexico; Santos-Miguel Orozco, CINVESTAV, Mexico; Luís Eduardo Rodríguez Cheu, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería “Julio Garavito”, Colombia.


WeR8. Wearable robotic solutions for factories of the future
Organizers: Carlos Rodriguez, K.Mombaur, Jan Babic.


WeR9. Human modeling and simulation for neurorehabilitation engineering
Organizers: J.M. Font-Llagunes, F.J. Alonso, J. Cuadrado.


WeR10. Smart human-machine systems for lower-limb assistance and rehabilitation after paralysis
Organizers: Jose Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston IUCRC BRAIN Center, USA); Jose Azorin (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain)


WeR11. Biorobotics approaches to understand and restore human balance
Organizers: Thomas Mergner, Vittorio Lippi and Diego Torricelli


WeR12. Exoskeleton Research in Europe
Organizers: Katja Mombaur, Jan Babic