# IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Website: Focus is on both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation\. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems; whereas automation includes the use of automated methods in various applications to improve performance and productivity\. The society sponsors a number of conferences, including the annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation\.

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## Pages
- [Science and Technology Watch Board](https://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/governance/science-and-technology-watch-board/): The Science and Technology Watch Board \(STB\) monitors progress in science and technology related to robotics and automation\. The STB identifies scientific and technological breakthroughs, and promising areas for future research, and presents these findings to the community\. The STB also identifies potential individuals and entities for awards and other recognition from the society\.
- [Human\-Robot Interaction](https://www.ieee-ras.org/human-robot-interaction/): \<h3\>Scope\</h3\> The recent trend toward developing a new generation of robots that shall participate in our lives and exist in human environments has introduced the need for formulating proper paradigms of interaction between people and robots\.
- [Editorial Board](https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/t-fr/editorial-board/)
- [Edit Member Profile](https://www.ieee-ras.org/edit-member-profile/)
- [Content Editor Guides](https://www.ieee-ras.org/content-editor/content-editor-guides/)

## Posts
- [Call for Applications: Editor\-in\-Chief for IEEE RA\-L](https://www.ieee-ras.org/call-for-applications-editor-in-chief-for-ieee-ra-l/)
- [Call for Nominations: IEEE\-RAS WiRA Paper Awards at CASE 2026](https://www.ieee-ras.org/call-for-nominations-ieee-ras-wira-paper-awards-at-case-2026/)
- [Call for RAS Sustainability Grant Applications](https://www.ieee-ras.org/call-for-ras-sustainability-grant-applications-2/)
- [Call for CASE 2026 Science Communication Ambassadors](https://www.ieee-ras.org/call-for-case-2026-science-communication-ambassadors/)
- [Surviving the Paper Deluge: Notes from an ICRA Panel on Publishing, LLMs, and The Future of Peer Review](https://www.ieee-ras.org/surviving-the-paper-deluge-notes-from-an-icra-panel-on-publishing-llms-and-the-future-of-peer-review/)

## RAS Members
- [Hadas Kress\-Gazit](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_member/hadas-kress-gazit/)
- [Yi Guo](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_member/yi-guo/)
- [Markus Vincze](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_member/markus-vincze/)
- [Jaydev Desai](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_member/jaydev-desai/)
- [Venkat Krovi](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_member/venkat-krovi/)

## News
- [Video Friday: Biorobotics Turns Lobster Tails Into Gripper](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news/video-friday-biorobotics-turns-lobster-tails-into-gripper/): Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics\. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months\. Please send us your events for inclusion\.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos\! EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into…
- [MIT’s AI Robotics Lab Director Is Building People\-Centered Robots](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news/mits-ai-robotics-lab-director-is-building-people-centered-robots/): Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability\. She made robotics her life’s work, she says, because she understood it was a way to expand the possibilities of computing while enhancing human capabilities\.“I like to think of robotics as a…
- [Video Friday: Disney’s Robotic Olaf Makes His Debut](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news/video-friday-disneys-robotic-olaf-makes-his-debut/): Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics\. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months\. Please send us your events for inclusion\.SOSV Robotics Matchup: 1–5 December 2025, ONLINEICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos\! Step behind…
- [Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news/ultrasound-makes-artificial-muscles-bubble-to-life/): A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much\. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves, the material behaves like natural muscle: contracting, gripping, and lifting with surprising strength\.The discovery, reported this week in Nature, introduces a new kind of artificial muscle—one powered not by wires, batteries, or pumps, but by sound\.The acoustic…
- [Communication\-Aware Hierarchical Map Compression of Time\-Varying Environments for Mobile Robots](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news/communication-aware-hierarchical-map-compression-of-time-varying-environments-for-mobile-robots/): In this letter, we develop a systematic framework for the time\-sequential compression of dynamic probabilistic occupancy grids\. Our approach leverages ideas from signal compression theory to formulate an optimization problem that searches for a multi\-resolution hierarchical encoder that balances the quality of the compressed map \(distortion\) with its description size, the latter of which relates…

## Presentations
- [Micro and Nano Robotics – Manipulation and Automation in Biomedical Field](https://www.ieee-ras.org/presentations/micro-and-nano-robotics-manipulation-and-automation-in-biomedical-field/)
- [Ergonomic human\-robot interaction and collaboration](https://www.ieee-ras.org/presentations/ergonomic-human-robot-interaction-and-collaboration/)
- [A novel framework of context\-aware and adaptive interaction between the robot and uncertain environments\.](https://www.ieee-ras.org/presentations/a-novel-framework-of-context-aware-and-adaptive-interaction-between-the-robot-and-uncertain-environments/)
- [Perception and Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Complex Environments](https://www.ieee-ras.org/presentations/perception-and-planning-for-mobile-manipulation-in-complex-environments/)
- [Learning Semantic Perception for Cluttered Bin Picking](https://www.ieee-ras.org/presentations/learning-semantic-perception-for-cluttered-bin-picking/)

## RAS Chapters
- [Universidad Industrial de Santander](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_chapters/60238858-universidad-industrial-de-santander/)
- [Kongu Engineering College \- ERODE](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_chapters/60108505-kongu-engineering-college-erode/)
- [Carnegie Mellon University \- Rwanda](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_chapters/60235837-carnegie-mellon-university-rwanda/)
- [Matrusri Engineering College](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_chapters/60227129-matrusri-engineering-college/)
- [Rajiv Gandhi Inst of Technology Kottayam](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_chapters/60134890-rajiv-gandhi-inst-of-technology-kottayam/)

## Venues
- [Brisbane Convention \& Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia](https://www.ieee-ras.org/venue/brisbane-convention-exhibition-centre-brisbane-brisbane-australia-2/)
- [D1 Auditorium, Punjab, Mohali, India](https://www.ieee-ras.org/venue/d1-auditorium-punjab-mohali-india/)
- [Brisbane Convention \& Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia](https://www.ieee-ras.org/venue/brisbane-convention-exhibition-centre-brisbane-brisbane-australia/)
- [INTEX OSAKA, Osaka, Japan](https://www.ieee-ras.org/venue/intex-osaka-osaka-japan/)
- [Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, Netherlands](https://www.ieee-ras.org/venue/fontys-university-of-applied-sciences-eindhoven-netherlands/)

## Organizers
- [Chandigarh University](https://www.ieee-ras.org/organizer/chandigarh-university/)
- [Nippon Electric Control Technology Industries Association \(NECA\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/organizer/nippon-electric-control-technology-industries-association-neca/)
- [Fontys University of Applied Sciences](https://www.ieee-ras.org/organizer/fontys-university-of-applied-sciences/)
- [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mechatronik e\.V\.](https://www.ieee-ras.org/organizer/deutsche-gesellschaft-fur-mechatronik-e-v/)
- [Tokai University](https://www.ieee-ras.org/organizer/tokai-university/)

## Events
- [Call for Papers \- Paper submission deadline: ICCRTEE: 2026 International Conference on Computational Robotics, Testing and Engineering Evaluation \(ICCRTEE\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/event/call-for-papers-paper-submission-deadline-iccrtee-2026-international-conference-on-computational-robotics-testing-and-engineering-evaluation-iccrtee-26505-0/)
- [2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Reality \(ICIR\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/event/2026-ieee-5th-international-conference-on-intelligent-reality-icir-70631/)
- [Call for Papers \- Paper submission deadline: ICIR: 2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Reality \(ICIR\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/event/call-for-papers-paper-submission-deadline-icir-2026-ieee-5th-international-conference-on-intelligent-reality-icir-27340-0/)
- [2026 34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation \(MED\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/event/2026-34th-mediterranean-conference-on-control-and-automation-med-70602/)
- [Call for Papers \- Paper submission deadline: MED: 2026 34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation \(MED\)](https://www.ieee-ras.org/event/call-for-papers-paper-submission-deadline-med-2026-34th-mediterranean-conference-on-control-and-automation-med-27334-0/)

## Categories
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## Tags
- [Deadline](https://www.ieee-ras.org/tag/deadline/)
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- [artificial intelligence](https://www.ieee-ras.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/)
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## RAS Roles
- [T\-ASE Editorial Board](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_roles/t-ase-editorial-board/)
- [Technical Committees](https://www.ieee-ras.org/ras_roles/technical-committees/)
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## News Categories
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## News Tags
- [robot](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news_tag/robot/)
- [control](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news_tag/control/)
- [robotics](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news_tag/robotics/)
- [autonomous](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news_tag/autonomous/)
- [sensor](https://www.ieee-ras.org/news_tag/sensor/)

## Chapter Types
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## Event Categories
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