Special Thanks to the RAS Executive Committee (ExCom) and RAS Administrative Committee (AdCom) for making 2018 such a sucessful and amazing year!

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

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)

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019) will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on 22-26 August 2019. Will YOU be there?

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!!

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

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