Khatib, Bacjsy, Zelinsky, Siciliano, Sun, Barajas, Lee, Ikeuchi Receive RAS Society Awards

The following awards were presented  by the Robotics and Automation Society at the ICRA 2010 Awards Ceremony to recognize the outstanding career and service contributions of individuals in Robotics and A Normal 0 utomation. The awardees and their citations are:

• 2010 Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award
  • Ruzena Bajcsy for ' fundamental pioneering contributions to robotics research in the areas of perception-action systems, telepresence, and active perception, for visionary leadership, and for life-long commitment to the field
  • Oussama Khatib for pioneering contributions to robotics research in the areas of mechanisms, dynamics, and control, for visionary leadership, and for life-long commitment to the field
• 2010 Distinguished Service Award: Bruno Siciliano
  For outstanding leadership and commitment in promoting robotics and automation and RAS as the number one Society in the field
• 2010 Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production: Alexander Zelinsky
  For outstanding contributions to robotic technologies that have been commercialized in the automotive, sports and health care industries 
• 2010 Early Government/Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation: Leandro G. Barajas
  for pioneering the use of diagnostics and prognostics research in large-scale industrial robotics and automation applications
• 2010 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation:Yu Sun
  for contributions to enabling microrobotic and MEMS technologies for automated cell manipulation and characterization in cell biology and clinical applications
• 2010 George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation: C.S. George Lee
  for leadership and contributions in RAS technical activities and conferences
• 2010 RAS Distinguished Lecturer Award: Katsushi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo
• 2010 Most Active Technical Committee Award : Technical Committee on Robot Learning
  Chairs: Jun Morimoto, Jan Peters, Nicholas Roy, Russ Tedrake  
• 2010 Chapter of the Year: Washington/Northern Virginia Robotics and Automation Society Joint Section Chapter, Chair: Leon A. Escobar 

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Award: Toshio Fukuda,  for leadership and pioneering contributions to Intelligent Robotic Systems and Micro and Nano Robotic Systems.
• King-Sun Fu IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award: Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent, and Landing Mourikis, A.I.; Trawny, N.; Roumeliotis, S.I.; Johnson, A.E.; Ansar, A.; Matthies, L.
  IEEE Transactions. on Robotics; Vol. 25, No. 2, Pages: 264 - 280.