SWAG Plenary Meeting in Munich Highlighted Progress Towards Integrated Wearable Robotics

SWAG partners met in Munich on 11–12 December 2025 for the project’s M26 Plenary Meeting, hosted by the Technical University of Munich at the Siemens Technology Center Garching. The meeting marked an important point in the project, bringing the consortium together to connect ongoing technical work with SWAG’s broader goal of developing soft wearable assistive technologies for real-life use.

A key focus of the meeting was the project’s growing emphasis on integration and demonstration. After a first day of partner discussions and coordination, the second day centred on an integration workshop and live demonstrations, followed by additional demos at the Technical University of Munich’s ARIES Lab. This gave partners the opportunity to look beyond individual components and focus on how different parts of the SWAG system are coming together.

The lab visit added a practical dimension to the meeting, offering hands-on insight into wearable devices and related research activities. More broadly, it reflected an essential stage in the project: turning research and development into integrated technologies that can be tested, refined and prepared for future validation in application scenarios.

Meetings like this are important because they show progress in a tangible way. They create space not only for coordination, but also for testing ideas, exchanging feedback and strengthening collaboration across the consortium as SWAG moves towards its next stages of prototype integration and evaluation.