Technical Activities Board

The Technical Activities Board (TAB) focuses on the research content of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, tracking technical developments and encouraging innovation in: applications, theory, models, metrics, experiments, architectures, products, initiatives, and other technical areas. The TAB oversees the Technical Committees and the Distinguished Lecturer programs. The TAB is chaired by the Vice President for Technical Activities. Members of the TAB include all current Technical Committee Co-Chairs, and five members appointed by the RAS President.

Fumihito Arai

Vice President – Technical Activities

Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan
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Yasuhisa Hirata

Associate Vice President

Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
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Mengchu Zhou

Associate Vice President

NJIT
Newark (NJ), United States
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Bram Vanderborght

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - Editor-in-Chief

Vrije universiteit Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
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Ken Goldberg

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering - Editor-in-Chief

University of California-Berkeley
Mill Valley (CA), United States
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Frank Park

IEEE Transactions on Robotics - Editor-in-Chief

Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Martin Buss

Vice-President – Conference Activities

Technische Universitaet 
Muenchen, Germany
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Raj Madhavan

HumRobTech, LLC
Maryland, United States
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Jianwei Zhang

University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
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Torsten Kroeger

Google
California (CA) United States
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Max Q.H. Meng

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Brad Nelson

ETH Zurich, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
 Zurich (Zurich), Switzerland
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Richard Vaughan

Simon Fraser University
 British Columbia, Canada
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Satoshi Tadokoro

RAS President

Tohoku University
Sendai (Miyagi), Japan
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