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RAS 2007 New Initiatives Grants
In April 2007 the Society was informed by IEEE that $100,000 of unspent funds could be allocated for unbudgeted new initiatives, providing the funds were spent by December 31, 2007. Despite the short notice, we were able to publish a call for proposals to which received 39 responses. The Vice Presidents, chairs of the relevant committees and the AdCom carefully reviewed the proposals and chose ten which seemed to provide the greatest benefit to society members and could be completed within the c... read on »
IEEE Election Ballots Mailed to Members
IEEE Annual Election ballot packages were mailed to all eligible voting members via first class postal mail. The ballot package includes a paper ballot and a postage paid reply envelope. RAS voting members are eligible to participate annually in election of officers that serve on the top-tier IEEE governing bodies. These include the IEEE President-Elect, and Technical Activities Board (TAB) and Regional Activities Board (RAB) Directors. TAB oversees the publications, conferences, finances, ... read on »
Fellowship for a Female Ph.D. Student in Robotics and Automation
Announcement and Call for Applications IEEE RAS members may recall a recent Call for Proposals to support projects with unexpended funds in Calendar Year 2007. One of the projects approved by the Society is a fellowship for a female Ph.D. student in the areas of robotics and/or automation, to be expended before the end of the calendar year. Proposals for the "IEEE RAS Fellowship" are now solicited. fellowship is intended to support a student who will have a significant future impact on... read on »
1st IROS Fumio Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS that the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the Robotics Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers have agreed to start “the IROS Harashima Award for innovative technologies”, to honor Professor Fumio Harashima, the founding chair of the IROS conferences. The Harashima Award will recognize outstanding contributions of an individual of the IROS community who has pioneered activities in robotics and i... read on »
4th IEEE-RAS/IFRR School of Robotics Science on Learning
Applications are now open Deadline for application is July, 20 2007 BACKGROUND The development of robust and intelligent service robots requires very advanced capabilities, especially from a cognitive point of view. Even in simple applications, a service robot needs to understand complex and dynamic situations, for which no pre-programmed function can be fully satisfactory. Thus a robot must continuously adapt to its changing world and develop ways to addre... read on »
ICRA 2007 Proceedings Now on Xplore
The scientific material of ICRA'07 (787 regular papers and 20 short papers, for a total of 807) is on line in IEEE Xplore at the address http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4209049&isYear=2007. The OPAC link is http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4209048. Note: Due to internal delays, IEEE has not yet linked the accompanying multimedia material (146 video clips and 20 long videos, for a total of 166) to the associated papers. We are in contact with the t... read on »
Professor Kazuo Tanie, 1946-2007
We regret to inform the RAS membership and others in the robotics and automation community that Professor Kazuo Tanie of Tokyo Metropolitan University passed away on June 9. He served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2004-5. Professor Tanie received the B.E., M.S., Dr.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 1969, 1971, and 1980, respectively. His research interests included tactile sensors and their application to dexterous man... read on »
RAS AdCom Nominations
The Robotics and Automation Society membership will be electing six new members of the Administrative Committee in October to serve a three year term beginning in January 2008. The AdCom is the governing body of our society. Responsiblilities of AdCom members AdCom members must attend the two meetings each year, one in conjunction with ICRA and the other in October/November, usually in conjunction with another major conference. Each Adcom members also serves on at least two of the major boar... read on »
Less than two weeks to submit RAS New Initiatives proposals !!
As a result of a new IEEE policy that, for the first time, allows RAS to use some of the unspent funds from 2006 in 2007, we are able to consider funding a modest number of initiatives that would benefit society members in general, providing that the initiative can be completed and the funds spent in calendar 2007. Approximately $100,000 in total is available. We hope to be able to fund several initiatives. Members are invited to submit proposals for initiative to the RAS administrator Rosa... read on »
IERA Forum and Award at ICRA2007
The third Industry Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IERA’07) in Robotics and Automation was held on April 10, 2007 in Rome. The Forum is sponsored by IEEE-RAS and the International Federation of Robotics and is held alternately at IEEE and IFR conferences. In addition several industries made substantial contributions in support of the forum. Platinum Level Sponsors were KUKA Roboter, Samsung Electronics, and Automatica. Gold Level Sponsors were CEA/LIST and Yujin Robot. Inv... read on »
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