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The RAS AdCom passed a set of Bylaws revisions on 24 February 2023. In accordance with the RAS Constitution, these changes shall take effect after approval from the IEEE VP of Technical Activities (in process) and 30 days after publication in the RAS eNewsletter.
Bylaws revisions include:
- Add Bylaw describing Financial Activities Board, for consistency with other major RAS Board bylaws
- Clarify composition of boards/committees where necessary
- Removed Robotics and Automation Research and Practice Ethics Committee. This committee is to be transitioned to a RAS Technical Community.
- Editorial changes to correct for minor grammatical corrections and reformatting due to addition/removal of sections
Congratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Advancement Senior Member Review Panel.
To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must
- be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
- have experience reflecting professional maturity
- have been in professional practice for at least 10 years (with some credit for certain degrees).
In addition, candidates for Senior Member grade must supply three references from current IEEE Members holding the grade of Fellow, Senior Member, or Honorary Member. For more information, visit https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/ or email senior-member@ieee.org. The names and affiliations of the new Senior Members are as follows, listed alphabetically by Region:
Region 1
Eric Gallimore
Providence Section
Diego Romeres
Boston Section
Region 2
Satyanarayana Manyam
Dayton Section
Region 3
Jeff Holmes
East Tennessee Section
Ryan Integlia
Coastal South Carolina Section
Region 4
Ratheesh Ravindran
Southeastern Michigan Section
Ramanarayan Vasudevan
Southeastern Michigan Section
Region 5
Adedeji Ogunbela
Houston Section
Alessandro Roncone
Denver Section
Region 6
Soshi Iba
Santa Clara Valley Section
Hannah Stuart
Oakland-East Bay Section
Region 7
Soulaimane Berkane
Ottawa Section
Christos Bergeles
United Kingdom and Ireland Section
Ghazi Bouzid
Tunisia Section
Hedvig Kjellstrom
Sweden Section
Agostino Mangini
Italy Section
Chioma Oleka
Nigeria Section
Massimiliano Pirani
Italy Section
Anatolijs Zabasta
Latvia Section
Daniel Carbonel
Peru Section
Cairo Nascimento
South Brazil Section
Region 10
Guanjun Bao
Nanjing Section
Neeraj Bhardwaj
Bangalore Section
Wei Feng
Guangzhou Section
Jiajie Guo
Wuhan Section
Vijaykumar Jatti
Bombay Section
Narendra Khatri
Bangalore Section
Hyun-Jung Kim
Daejeon Section
Tianliang Li
Wuhan Section
Olatunji Omisore
Guangzhou Section
Stalin Yanneboina
For all those looking for employment in the robotics industry, ICRA 2023 offers an opportunity to submit your application via the Access to Talent portal.
The application will be seen by the top robotics employers in the world, who you will be able to meet at the conference. This is a unique opportunity to be seen by some of the top employers in the industry.
Find out more and upload your CV here.
The organizers of the 4th Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction are pleased to invite you to apply. The School will take place in Chęciny, Poland from 18–23 September 2023. Please note that applications are due 5 May 2023.
Click here for the full invitation; more information can also be found at the website or on this flyer.
The IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) will be held from 11–13 December 2023 in Laguna Hills, California at The Hills Hotel. Please note that the conference will be held via a hybrid (in person/virtual) format.
Robotic Computing addresses the synergetic interaction of computing technologies and robotic technologies. The synergy between Robotics and Computer Science is both realistic and strategic. Their mutual benefit is to make it possible to build and evolve new robotic systems, to reduce their development cost, and to enhance their quality.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- Workshop Proposal Deadline: 1 August 2023 PT
- Paper Submission Deadline: 1 September 2023 PT
- Workshop Proposal Acceptance: 1 September 2023 PT
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 October 2023 PT
- Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2023 PT
- Camera Ready and Registration Deadline: 1 November 2023 PT
For more information, check out the IRC 2023 website.
Dear RAS members,
We, the Organizing Committee (OC) of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), are pleased to announce that we will provide free access to the IROS 2022 conference content.
IROS is one of the most prestigious conferences in robotics. In October 2022, IROS was held in Kyoto, Japan, with the theme Embodied AI for a Symbiotic Society. After the conference, we continued providing conference content to attendees through a video-on-demand platform called IROS OnDemand.
The platform has provided IROS 2022 content, including
This platform allows you to easily access IROS content anywhere, anytime.
As of today, we are delighted to announce the IROS 2022 OnDemand registration is free for everyone. This announcement has been made possible by the sponsoring societies for IROS:
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- The Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
- The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
- The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
- The New Technology Foundation (NTF)
The IROS 2022 OC cares about society. We hope this platform reaches various communities outside of the robotics research boundary, including K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions, businesses, and governments. The platform allows everyone to stay up to date with state-of-the-art technologies and research networks from IROS 2022.
Please note that IROS 2022 OnDemand will remain open from 1 March to 30 June 2023.
Below is a set of important instructions for the platform; please read to take full advantage of IROS 2022 OnDemand.
The platform follows a keyword-based system, just like YouTube. Once you log in, you can find presentations by searching or using the keywords listed on the ribbon under the sponsor's video. Keywords are updated based on your activity in the system. Thus, you can find your desired presentations more easily when you log in again next time.
To access this platform, we ask that you use the link below to register and ensure access to IROS On-Demand:
https://www.irosondemand.org/2022/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to activate your account. If you encounter any difficulties, please email info@irosondemand.org.
We hope you enjoy the IROS conference content via IROS OnDemand.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Dongbin Kim, E-Media Co-Chair, Chief Architect of IROS OnDemand
Zhidong Wang, Publication Committee Chair
Yasushi Nakauchi, Program Chair
Shugen Ma, General Chair
We are pleased to announce that Volume 5, Issue 1 of IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Click here for the table of contents and check out the issue now on Xplore!
The objective of this special issue is to present the latest progress and development of methods, techniques, and tools for emergency automation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Human-machine fusion decision for emergency automation
- Automatic monitoring, diagnosis, and early warning of emergency scenarios
- Automation of emergency response, decision-making recommendation, and rescue dispatching
- Robot-assisted disaster rescue technology
- Robot-assisted disaster or disease treatment related technology
- Human-machine fusion for multi-modal coalition emergency response
- Human factors in emergency handling
- Human-computer interaction in emergency
Please see the flyer for more details.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- Manuscript submission deadline: 30 Jun 2023
- Tentative publication date: 29 Feb 2024
Who are the leaders in the robotics and automation field? Who should be honored with a prestigious IEEE RAS Award? Consider nominating them! But hurry, the deadline for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Award nominations is midnight (US ET) 1 August 2023. Details for each award, including eligibility and nomination requirements and lists of previous recipients, may be found at www.ieee-ras.org/awards-recognition/society-awards
We are pleased to announce that Volume 8, Issue 4 of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Check out the issue now!
Present your latest findings in the field of robotics by contributing to the ICRA 2023 Late Breaking Results Poster Session. Please note that these contributions are not peer-reviewed and do not qualify as official publications, but they will be available to conference attendees in both poster and electronic form.
This is a great opportunity to receive feedback on your work before submitting it for formal publication.
Submit a poster in pdf format by the final deadline of Friday, 14 April 2023. More details are available on the website.
Producing a robot video is one of the most effective ways of promoting your research. But video production—especially quality video production—can seem daunting.
Our new column, “How to Make a Good Robot Video,” demystifies the process (it’s simpler than you think!). The author is Evan Ackerman, Senior Editor at IEEE Spectrum focusing on robotics. Evan has years of experience watching and producing robot videos, and he shares his insights and tips. The column is available now on our website and will be featured in this year’s June issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. Check it out!
Brooks created subsumption, an architecture for designing layered real-time control of complex robotic systems that has enabled a wide range of robotic innovations, including the human-robotic interaction exemplified by the Roomba vacuum cleaner.
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) is most pleased to announce that RAS Member Rodney Brooks has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2023 IEEE Founders Medal. Professor Brooks was selected “for leadership in research and commercialization of autonomous robotics, including mobile, humanoid, service and manufacturing robots.”
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Rodney Brooks is a robotics visionary. Early on, he saw the future of robotics, then found ways to create that future and bring robots to everyday life. The impact of his work is found everywhere, from the research lab to the consumer market, from the living room to the planet Mars. Brooks realized in the 1980s that robots were large, slow, expensive, and unreliable. A large part of the problem was robot control. Traditional control architecture was centered on the sense, think, act loop. A typical robot used sensors to make a model of the world, reasoned about the model, then took action. It wasn’t uncommon for a robot to spend 5 minutes deciding how to move 5 centimeters. So Brooks developed a solution: subsumption architecture, a groundbreaking behavior-based system that enabled mobile robotics. In addition to his distinguished research career, Brooks is also an entrepreneur, founder of three trail-blazing companies: Rethink Robotics, Robust AI, and iRobot (the first successful service robotics company). One early iRobot product, Grendel, led directly to NASA’s Sojourner Mars rover. iRobot’s groundbreaking PackBot reconnaissance and disposal robot changed how bomb disposal is conducted. It was the most widely adopted man-portable robot deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, saving thousands of lives. It even helped with the immediate aftermath of the tsunami at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan in 2011. On the domestic front, iRobot’s Roomba is the top-selling vacuum cleaner in the U.S. and has forever changed how people think about robots. Recently, Brooks has focused on building robots for manufacturing. His Baxter and Sawyer industrial robots are safe, can learn by humans showing them how to do tasks, and can cope with variations on the assembly line unlike any other industrial robot. Technology has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past 20 years. The leading edge of this transformation has been in artificial intelligence and robotics, fueled by the introduction of mobile robotics and advances in machine learning. Brooks has been a visionary, pioneer, and leader in this space. An IEEE Life Fellow, Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. |
About the IEEE Founders Medal
Sponsored by the IEEE Richard and Mary Jo Stanley Memorial Fund of the Foundation, the IEEE Founders Medal honors “outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning, and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and electronics engineering profession.” More information on the Medal and its history can be found here; a list of past winners is available here.
Intelligent Automation Systems, such as automated storage and retrieval systems, self-driving vehicles, various types of autonomous robots, and unmanned workshop plants, act independently of direct human supervision. Their impact on society and human life will be significant. These automation systems are safety-critical, complex, and powerful with a higher-level functionality. Safety and reliability are key challenges and can become costly and difficult to achieve.
The objective of this Special Issue is to compile recent research and development efforts contributing to advances in safety-critical control for autonomous intelligent systems.
Please see the flyer for more details.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2023
- Tentative publication date: 30 December 2023
We are pleased to announce that Volume 39, Issue 1 of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Click here for the table of contents and check out the issue now on Xplore!
We are pleased to announce that paper submissions are now open for the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), which will be held October 1–5, 2023 at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The theme of IROS 2023 is The Next Generation of Robotics; the conference thus aims to highlight the contributions of younger researchers and to help accelerate the future contributions of all those just entering the field.
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality papers representing original work. Submissions spanning all areas of intelligent robots and applications are welcome.
Please note that the paper submission deadline is 1 March 2023.
Check out the flyer for more details.
As an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) member, you can take advantage of the Multiple Society Discount Program. This program allows you to connect across several IEEE Societies to expand your expert network and collaborate on the latest cutting-edge technical research, policy, and innovation at a discount when you become a member or renew your membership of two or more participating IEEE Societies.
If you’re already a member of two or more participating IEEE Societies, the discount will automatically be applied when you renew. If you’ve always been interested in a complementary IEEE Society, this program provides you with the opportunity to join at a discounted rate.
IEEE Societies that may complement your IEEE RAS membership include:
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
The 40th IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) is coming to London! The conference takes place from 29 May–2 June 2023 at the iconic ExCeL London.
ICRA is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; it brings together the world's top researchers and leading companies to share ideas and advances in robotics and automation. The conference will include plenary sessions, contributed paper sessions, workshops and tutorial sessions, forums, videos, exhibitions, and robot competitions. Click here for the overview of the conference program.
Register now here; please note that the deadline for discounted early bird registration is 1 April 2023.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- RAS Travel Grants Applications Open: 31 January 2023
- Registration Site Open: 1 February 2023
- Final submission of papers open (PaperPlaza): 8 February 2023
- Application for RAS Travel Grants Closes: 22 February 2023
- Author Registration Deadline: 1 March 2023
- Deadline for final submission of papers (PaperPlaza): 1 March 2023
- Submission of Final Video & Graphical Abstract (InfoVaya): 20 March 2023
- Early Bird Registration deadline: 1 April 2023
- Deadline for Final Video and Graphical Abstract Submission: 11 April 2023
We are pleased to announce that Volume 8, Issue 3 of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) is now available on IEEE Xplore. Check out the issue now!
The purpose of the IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation (IERA) Award is to highlight and honor the achievements of the inventors who value creating ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas into world-class products. In a joint event, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) will therefore recognize and honor outstanding personal achievements of entrepreneurs in the commercialization of innovative robotic and automation technology.
These achievements will be recognized in a specially organized IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation, which is being held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) that will take place from 29 May–2 June 2023 in London, UK.
The selected finalists will have the opportunity to present their story of the genesis of a successful innovative product in robotics and automation from its very inception to the final state of commercialization in a series of plenary lectures. The ultimate winner will be chosen by an evaluation board consisting of distinguished individuals from industry and academia. A certificate will be awarded to each finalist, and the winner will receive a prestigious plaque as well as a US$ 2,000 prize.
Check out our handout for more details on the award and how to apply. Please note that applications are due by February 28, 2023; they may be submitted either to secretariat@ifr.org or to ras@ieee.org.
