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IEEE/IFR IERA Award Goes to Cyberdyne's Yoshiyuki Sankai for 'Robot Suit HAL-Hybrid Assistive Limbs'
5th IEEE-IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics & Automation presented in Kobe Kobe, May 2009 – As in previous years the judging panel had a difficult choice to make. The unanimous selection for the 2009 IERA Award winner was Yoshiyuki Sankai of Cyberdyne Inc. for the Robot Suit HAL, an innovative human assistance system using an exoskeleton. To foster innovation and entrepreneurial spirit while making the best possible use of synergies between science and industry... read on »
ICRA 2009 Best Paper Awards
Five of the 696 papers which were accepted for the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (out of 1629 submissions) received the award for Best Paper in six different categories, One paper received two different awards, Best Automation Paper and Best Student Paper. John Hollerbach, ICRA 2009 Awards Chair, announced the names and authors of the winning papers at the awards ceremony in Kobe on May 16. An award was also given for the Best Video, which was selected fr... read on »
RAS 2009 Society Awards Presented in Kobe
Antal Bejczy, IEEE Robotics and Automation Award winner, Matt Mason, RAS Pioneer Award winner and other members of the Robotics and Automation Society were recognized for their outstanding accomplishments or their distinguished service and leadership in the Society and the robotics and automation community at large. The awards were presented to the following individuals at the ICRA 2009 Awards Luncheon in Kobe, Japan, May 16. IEEE Robotics and Automation Award: Antal Bejczy, Jet Prop... read on »
NEW RAS TC: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Robotic and Automation Systems
A new RAS Technical Committee, Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Robotic and Automation Systems, will emphasize the need and solutions for developingstandardized methods for quantitatively evaluating and benchmarking emerging robotic systems technologies. The new TC was approved by the RAS AdCom in May 2009. Cochairs are Raj Madhavan and Elena Messina, both of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and Angel Del Pobil of Universitaet Jaume I. To join the... read on »