Announcing new RAS President Elect, Seth Hutchinson!
l-r: Satoshi Tadokoro (RAS Past President 2016-2017), Seth Hutchinson (RAS President Elect), Wolfram Burgard (RAS President 2018-2019)

The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) was a huge success, thanks to: Program Chair Georg Frey, General Co. Chair Bengt Lennartson, General Chair Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Program Chairs Alexander Fay and Cesare Fantuzzi

2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2019)
20-24 May 2019 in Montreal, Canada
Call for Papers Deadlines: 10 September 2018 for RA-L papers with option to present at ICRA
OR 15 September 2018 for Regular papers

Allison Okamura has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. She follows RA-Letters founder and brilliant researcher, Antonio Bicchi. Special THANKS to Antonio for creating this innovative journal concept!!

Congratulations 2018 IERA Award Recipients!

left to right: Dominik Boesl, Awards Chair & Vice President IEEE RAS; Martijn Buijs, Lely; Dr. Nicholas Wettels, Perception Robotics; Michael Otto, KUKA; Clemens Duijnisveld., Lely; Frank Steeneveld, Lely; Junji Tsuda, IFR President (©Thomas Plettenberg)

The RAS Women in Engineering Committee (WiE) gather at ICRA 2018.
l-r: K. Ramirez Amaro, J. Xiao, L. Parker, C. Ekenna, M. Gini, A. Faust, N. Amato

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining
2-5 October 2018 in Madrid, Spain

RAS Staff is here to help! Contact us at RAS@ieee.org

l-r: Kathy Colabaugh, Amy Reeder, Jairo Ramirez

CASE 2017 was a success, in part because of these awesome Student Volunteers!

58 Students participate in the Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots, held at the University of Verona, Verona, Italy