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See RoboCup stars on Spectrum Online
While we congratulate our Spanish members on their country's first FIFA World Cup championship, the burning question for many roboticists is "Will a RoboCup team be able to best the 2050 World Cup victors?". See the Spectrum Online videos and draw your own conclusions! Robots play soccer now See teams of robots from all over the world compete in different categories, from small wheeled robots to adult-size humanoids. Defending the RoboCup Title ... read on »
Alexander Verl recipient of IERA Award
Munich, 8 June 2010 - On 8 June during the Gala Dinner of the International Symposium on Robotics ISR 2010 in conjunction with the German Conference on Robotics ROBOTIK 2010, the IERA Award was presented to Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Verl, Fraunhofer IPA for his project. "Inline Measurement Robots - Robots Get the Precision for Car Body Inspection“. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) and the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) jointly spon... read on »
Last week to propose candidates for RAS AdCom
June 15 is the last day to submit the names of potential candidates for the Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee, to sign an on-line petition, or to submit a paper petition with original signatures. Two candidates have posted online petitions. To sign one or both petitions, RAS members may use their IEEE web account credentials to log on to the IEEE petition website. ... read on »
ICRA 2016 Calls for Proposals
The RAS Conference Activities Board (CAB) is seeking proposals for the ICRA 2016 organization. CAB will give priority to proposals received by October 14, 2010 with the intention of discussing the different submissions at its meeting during IROS 2010. Each proposal should be submitted to Prof. Nikos Papanikolopoulos (npapas@umn.edu ) and should include the following material: Location and plan Organizers and write-ups about their backgrounds and interactions with RAS previousl... read on »
IEEE-RAS/IFRR School of Robotic Science on Social and Cognitive Robotics
Technical University of Iasi, Iasi ROMANIA 12-17 July 2010 http://www.socoro.info/ Deadline for applications: 20 June 2010 This is the fifth summer school offered through co-sponsorship by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) . The aim of the event is to provide high quality of education in a chosen theme. This occurs through interaction with internationally distinguished researchers in an informal classroom set... read on »
Petitions and recommendations for AdCom Nominations Due June 15
Petitions to guarantee inclusion of candidates on the ballot for the Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee elections are due June 15. Supporters of candidates who have established IEEE online petitions may click here to sign. Signers must include their IEEE member numbers. Send recommendation for nominations to Bruno Siciliano, chair of the RAS nominations committee. To guarantee inclusion on the ballot, candidates must submit a paper petition with at... read on »
Six finalists for IEEE/IFR IERA Award announced
Six Finalists have been announced for the IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics and Automation. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE/RAS) and the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) have jointly sponsored the IERA Award since 2005. Nominees Ekkehard Zwicker, ALSTOM "Highly Compact Mobile Robots for Process and Power Facility Inspections" Alexander Verl, Fraunhofer IPA "Inline Measurement Robots - Rob... read on »
RAS AdCom Elections --Call for Nominations
The Administrative Committee of the Robotics and Automation Society is the governing body of the Society. IT consists of 18 members elected by the membership, and the President, President Elect, Immediate Past President, Sectretary, Treasurer, and Student Adcom Member. The elected adcom members serve staggered 3 year terms and may be reelected once. Six new members of the AdCom will be elected by the general membership (graduate students and higher grade members) via an electronic ballot in ... read on »
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... read on »
ICRA 2010 Best Papers and Video Awards
Authors of eight papers and a video received awards in a ceremony at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which took place in Anchorage, Alaska May 3-8.The awardees are: Best Video: Minimalistic, Dynamic, Tube Climbing Robot by Amir Degani, Siyuan Feng, Howie Choset and Matthew T. Mason Best Vision Paper (sponsored by Ben Wegbreit): Real-time Monocular SLAM: Why Filter? by Hauke Strasdat, J.M.M. Montiel, and Andrew J. Davison Bes... read on »
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