The IFAC seal has a new keeper. 🤝 At the Closing Ceremony in Busan, Dongil "Dan" Cho handed the IFAC presidency to Maria Prandini, who leads the federation through 2026–2029. Thank you, Dan. Welcome, Maria. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

The last awards of the 23rd IFAC World Congress, presented at the Closing Ceremony in Busan. 🏅 Congratulations to every recipient — and thank you to the committees who read everything to get here. #IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

The 23rd IFAC World Congress closed with an orchestra made of its own delegates. 🎻 The IFAC Control Orchestra played the Closing Ceremony at BEXCO — researchers on stage with instruments they brought from home. Standing ovation. Thank you, Busan. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

"From Event-Triggered to Neuromorphic Control: A System-Theoretic Perspective" Maurice Heemels gave the closing plenary at the IFAC World Congress. Why compute and transmit on a clock when you could do it when something actually happens? #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

The whole Congress at one seated dinner — a first for an IFAC World Congress. 🎶 The Congress Banquet filled Exhibition Center 1 at BEXCO last night, with three performances over the evening. Thanks to the organising committee. #IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

"Learning and Adaptation in Uncertain Dynamical Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and Challenges" Lei Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences): the Thursday plenary at the IFAC World Congress — closed with his acknowledgment as an IFAC Distinguished Lecturer. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

About 50 upper-elementary and middle school students, at a World Congress, building robots. 🤖 IFAC 2026 Young Control Explorers at BEXCO: robot talks, a science show — and their own robots at the workbenches. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #STEM

The 2026 RoboRacer Grand Prix has a winner. 40+ teams, the first competition of its kind at an IFAC World Congress. First place: team InTheEND, Soongsil University. Congratulations — and to everyone who got a car round that track at all. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #Robotics

The IFAC Foundation Diversity & Inclusion Award 2026 went to Girls in Control — handed over by Foundation Chair Frank Allgöwer to Keiko Shimizu, Steffi Knorn, Damiano Varagnolo and Roxanne Jackson. 🏆 #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #GirlsInControl

The award that carries his name, handed over by Wook Hyun Kwon himself. The IFAC Foundation Kwon Award 2026: control science for sustainable development. Congratulations Fontan, Eustachio Colombo, Green, Johansson. Pictured: Fontan and Johansson. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

Why are robot hands still worse than yours? Frank C. Park's Wednesday plenary at the IFAC World Congress: "Toward Human-Level Dexterity in Robot Manipulation". Control, learning, geometry, mechanics — four fields in one title. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #Robotics

Ten teams, one week, robots you wear. The IFAC Wearable Robot Challenge closed with awards: Busan Experience first, Innovation second, plus Storytelling. Pictured: the first-prize team, exoskeleton worn. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

AI versus control — or AI and control? The IFAC World Congress AI Forum took on the question the field keeps circling: what happens to a discipline built on stability proofs when the most capable tools are learned and opaque. #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #AI

Working with the IFAC Foundation and the Korean NOC, young and underrepresented researchers were awarded DC-YAS and D&I support to attend the IFAC World Congress. The photograph shows some of the 93. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #AutomaticControl #IFAC2026

🤝 93 young and underrepresented researchers received DC-YAS and D&I support for the IFAC World Congress in Busan, and 90 had registered by July 15. The last three Congresses averaged just over 30. ifac2026.org ifac-control.org/wp-content/… #AutomaticControl

Alessandro Astolfi's Tuesday plenary: "Nonlinear Optimal Control and Filtering Beyond the HJB Equation" — where nonlinear optimal control is supposed to live, and where it stops being solvable. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #ControlTheory

한글. Sixty minutes. A room of control engineers who could not read a word of it before lunch. Hangeul was designed in the 15th century to be learnable by anyone. The Congress put that to the test. It held up. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

This is where IFAC actually decides things. The General Assembly — one vote per National Member Organisation, 45 of them — convened at the World Congress in Busan. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

Ken Goldberg opens the IFAC World Congress technical programme: robotics lacks the data that made LLMs work — good old fashioned engineering (physics, geometry, control) closes the 100,000 year gap. 📸 ifac.link/wc2026photos #IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

Control engineering, written across the night sky over Busan. 🛸 The IFAC World Congress Welcome Reception closed with a drone light show — 500 drones holding formation, automatic control at work over the city. #IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl