T-RO Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), United States
Primary Areas: Contact Modeling; Cooperating Robots; Dexterous Manipulation; Distributed Robot Systems; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Manipulation Planning; Multi-Robot Systems; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Physically Assistive Devices; Swarms
Secondary Areas: Assembly; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Assembly; Dynamics; Human Performance Augmentation; Legged Robots; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Multifingered Hands; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
Editor-in-Chief
Start Date: 1 July 2018
End Date: 30 June 2023
Editor
University of Illinois
Urbana (IL), USA
Primary Keywords: Motion and Path Planning; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Manipulation Planning; Task planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Assembly; Computational Geometry; Collision Avoidance; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Distributed Robot Systems
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2028
Editor
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Primary Keywords: Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; RGB-D Perception; SLAM; Semantic Scene Understanding; Humanoid Robots; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Secondary Keywords: Aerial Systems: Applications; Agricultural Automation; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Collision Avoidance; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Manufacturing; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Computer Vision for Transportation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dexterous Manipulation; Domestic Robots; Dual Arm Manipulation; Field Robots; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Grasping; Human Detection and Tracking; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion Learning from Demonstration; Legged Robots; Localization; Manipulation Planning; Mapping; Marine Robotics; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Multifingered Hands; Omnidirectional Vision; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking; Range Sensing; Recognition; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Search and Rescue Robots; Sensor Fusion; Service Robots; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Visual Learning; Visual Servoing; Visual Tracking; Visual-Based Navigation
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2028
Editor
University of Technology Nuremberg
Nuremberg, Germany
Primary Areas: AI Reasoning Methods; AI-Based Methods; AI-enabled Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Agent-Based Systems; Agricultural Automation; Animation and Simulation; Assembly; Automation in Life Sciences: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Autonomous Agents; Autonomous Navigation; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Benchmark; Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Brain Machine Interface; Brain Machine Interfaces; Brain-Machine Interface; Calibration and Identification; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Collision Avoidance; Collision Detection and Avoidance; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Assembly; Computer Vision; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation; Control Architectures and Programming; Deep Learning for Visual Perception; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Design; Distributed Robot Systems; Domestic Robots; Domestic Robots and Home Automation; Dynamics; Failure Detection and Recovery; Field Robots; Force and Tactile Sensing; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Health Care Management; Human Centered Robotics; Human Detection and Tracking; Human detection & tracking; Human-Centered Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Imitation Learning; Industrial Robots; Integrated Planning and Control; Integrated Task and Motion Planning; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Localization; Manipulation Planning; Manipulation Planning and Control; Mapping; Medical Robots and Systems; Medical Systems, Healthcare, and Assisted Living; Mobile Manipulation; Model Learning; Model Learning for Control; Motion Control of Manipulators; Motion and Path Planning; Motion and Trajectory Generation; Motor Skill Learning; Multi-legged Robots; Navigation; Neurorobotics; Novel Deep Learning Methods; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Object detection, segmentation, categorization; Optimization and Optimal Control; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Personal Robots; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Probability and Statistical Methods; RGB-D Perception; Range Sensing; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Recognition; Rehabilitation Robotics; Reinforecment Learning; Representation Learning; Robot Companions and Social Human-Robot Interaction; Robot Learning; Robot Vision; Robot navigation; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; SLAM; Self-Supervised Learning; Semantic Scene Understanding; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Networks; Sensor-based Control; Service Robots; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Task Planning; Virtual Reality and Interfaces; Visual Learning; Visual Navigation; Visual Place Recognition; Visual Tracking; Visual-Based Navigation
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2025
Editor
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Pisa, Italy
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles
Secondary Areas: Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Automation in Life Sciences: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Biological Cell Manipulation; Biomimetics; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
End Date: December 31, 2025
Editor
CNRS, IRISA
Rennes, France
Paolo Robuffo Giordano is a CNRS senior research scientist head of the Rainbow group at IRISA/Inria, Rennes, France. He holds a PhD degree in Systems Engineering obtained in 2008 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From January 2007 to July 2007 and from November 2007 to October 2008, he was a research scientist at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, and from October 2008 to November 2012 he was a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and scientific leader of the group “Human-Robot Interaction”. His scientific interests include motion control for mobile robots and mobile manipulators, visual control of robots, active sensing, bilateral teleoperation, shared control, multi-robot estimation and control, aerial robotics.
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Calibration and Identification; Multi-Robot Systems; Optimization and Optimal Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Sensor Fusion; Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Wheeled Robots
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Localization; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Visual-Based Navigation; Telerobotics and Teleoperation
Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 December 2023
Editor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Primary Areas: Modular self-reconfigurable robotics, Mechanism design
Secondary Areas: Haptics, rotor-craft design
Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2024
Science Communication Editor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor (MI), USA
Primary Areas: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Legged Robots; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control
Secondary Areas: Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification; Model Learning for Control;Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 January 2019
End Date- 31 Dec 2022
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Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
Primary Keywords: Multi-Robot Systems; Motion and Path Planning; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Distributed Robot Systems
Secondary Keywords: Collision Avoidance; Cooperating Robots; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Mobile Manipulation; Networked Robots; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Swarms
April 1, 2023 - June 30, 2026
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Politecnico Milano
Milan, Italy
Primary Areas: Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Multi-Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents;
Secondary Areas: AI-Based Methods; Failure Detection and Recovery; Agent-Based Systems; Autonomous Agents; Mapping; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Start Date-1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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New York University
New York City,(NY) USA
Primary: Human-Centered Robotics; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Neurorobotics; Medical Robots and Systems; Rehabilitation Robotics; Compliance and Impedance Control; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation;
Secondary: Dynamics; Force Control; Flexible Robots; Brain-Machine Interface; Learning from Demonstration; Sensor Fusion
Mar 1 2022 - June 30, 2025
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University of Houston
Houston (TX), USA
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Swarms; Underactuated Robots
Secondary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Cellular and Modular Robots; Cooperating Robots; Education Robotics
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden
Primary:Grasping; Force and Tactile Sensing; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Mobile Manipulation; Dexterous Manipulation
Secondary:Probability and Statistical Methods; Model Learning for Control; Learning from Demonstration; Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dual Arm Manipulation; Manipulation Planning; Multifingered Hands; Sensor Fusion; Domestic Robots; Service Robots; Assembly
July 1 2022 - June 30 2025
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Stanford University
Stanford (CA), USA
Primary Areas: Big Data in Robotics and Automation; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Manufacturing; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dexterous Manipulation; Grasping; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; RGB-D Perception; Visual Learning; Visual Tracking;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; AI-Based Methods; Assembly; Contact Modeling; Learning from Demonstration; Mobile Manipulation; Model Learning for Control; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Optimization and Optimal Control; Manipulation Planning; Semantic Scene Understanding; Sensor Fusion; Sensor-based Control; Service Robots; Visual Servoing
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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National Centre for Scientific Research
Nantes Cedex, France
Primary Areas: Mechanism Design; Parallel Robots; Dynamics; Kinematics; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Calibration and Identification; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Industrial Robots; Underactuated Robots; Visual Servoing; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Robot Applications
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (MA), USA
Primary Areas: SLAM; Localization; Mapping; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Secondary Areas: RGB-D Perception; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Sensor Fusion; Computer Vision for Transportation; Recognition; Range Sensing
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
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Inria, École Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
Primary:Optimization and Optimal Control; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Legged Robots; Model Learning for Control; Simulation and Animation
Secondary: Sensor-based Control; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Manipulation Planning
June 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Primary:Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Human Detection and Tracking
Secondary:Compliance and Impedance Control; Dual Arm Manipulation; Force and Tactile Sensing; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
Feb 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
Primary Areas: SLAM; Localization; Mapping;
Secondary Areas: Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Recognition; RGB-D Perception; Sensor Fusion; Semantic Scene Understanding; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Visual Learning
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Pisa, Italy
Primary:Wearable Robots; Rehabilitation Robotics; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop
Secondary:Human Performance Augmentation; Human-Centered Robotics; Medical Robots and Systems; Neurorobotics
Feb 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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Politecnico Milano
Milan, Italy
Primary Areas: Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Health Care Management; Medical Robots and Systems; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Rehabilitation Robotics; Sensor Fusion; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Surgical Robotics: Planning; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles;
Secondary Areas: Force and Tactile Sensing; Force Control; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Virtual Reality and Interfaces
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics
Munich, Germany
Primary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Force Control; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Optimization and Optimal Control
Secondary Areas: Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Dual Arm Manipulation; Mobile Manipulation; Sensor-based Control; Redundant Robots; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Primary Areas:SLAM; Legged Robots; Sensor Fusion; Field Robots; Localization
Secondary Areas:Humanoid Robots; Marine Robotics
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Granada
Granada, Spain
Primary Areas:Multi-Robot Systems; Swarms; Autonomous Agents; Distributed Robot Systems; Cooperating Robots; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Failure Detection and Recovery
Secondary Areas:Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Primary Areas:Parallel Robots; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Redundant Robots; Kinematics;
Secondary Areas: Calibration and Identification; Flexible Robots; Motion Control; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Seville
Seville, Spain
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Applications;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Field Robots; Wheeled Robots; Robotics in Construction; Robotics in Hazardous Fields
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Nomi, Japan
Primary:Force and Tactile Sensing; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Soft Robot Applications
Secondary:Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Contact Modeling
Feb 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Delaware
Newark (DE), USA
Primary:Localization; Mapping; Sensor Fusion; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Calibration and Identification
Secondary:Aerial Systems: Applications; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Computer Vision for Transportation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Distributed Robot Systems; Failure Detection and Recovery; Multi-Robot Systems
Feb 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Toronto
Toronto (ON), Canada
Primary Areas: Calibration and Identification; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Manufacturing; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Dexterous Manipulation; Field Robots; Force and Tactile Sensing; Human-Centered Robotics; Kinematics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Manipulation Planning; Mapping; Mobile Manipulation; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Sensor Fusion; Space Robotics and Automation
Secondary Areas:Assembly; Computational Geometry; Education Robotics; Factory Automation
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon, South Korea
Primary Areas: Localization; Mapping; Marine Robotics; SLAM;
Secondary Areas: Range Sensing; Visual-Based Navigation; Computer Vision for Transportation; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Field Robots
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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Southern Methodist University
Dallas (TX), USA
Primary:Micro/nanorobotics; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales
Secondary:Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Cellular and Modular Robots
Feb 1 2022 - June 30 2025
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Yale University
New Haven (CT), USA
Primary Areas: Flexible Robots; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators;
Secondary Areas: Additive Manufacturing; Assembly; Behavior-Based Systems; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Cellular and Modular Robots; Compliant Assembly; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Education Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Space Robotics and Automation; Wearable Robots
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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Polytechnique Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Primary Keywords: Autonomous Agents; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Collision Avoidance; Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Localization; Failure Detection and Recovery; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Mapping; Model Learning for Control; Motion and Path Planning; Motion Control; Networked Robots; Optimization and Optimal Control; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Probability and Statistical Methods; Range Sensing; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Search and Rescue Robots; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Networks; Sensor-based Control; SLAM; Swarms; Task Planning
Secondary Keywords: Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Automation Technologies for Smart Cities; Calibration and Identification; Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Transportation; Control Architectures and Programming; Process Control; Semantic Scene Understanding; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Visual Servoing; Visual-Based Navigation; Wheeled Robots
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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Vienna University of Technology
Vienna, Austria
Primary Areas: Learning from Demonstration; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Model Learning for Control;
Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; AI-Based Methods; Humanoid Robots;
Secondary Areas: Human-Centered Robotics; Social Human-Robot Interaction; Gesture, Posture and Facial Expressions; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; SLAM
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Texas A&M University
College Station, (TX) USA
Primary Keywords: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
Secondary Keywords: Visual Servoing; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Biomimetics; Flexible Robots
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Zhejiang, China
Primary Areas: Parallel Robots; Mechanism Design; Kinematics; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Dynamics; Calibration and Identification
Secondary Areas: Motion and Path Planning; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy; Contact Modeling; Force Control; Motion Control
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- 30 June 2022
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University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, China
Primary Areas: Human Performance Augmentation; Human-Centered Robotics; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary Areas: Neurorobotics; Rehabilitation Robotics; Physically Assistive Devices; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
Start Date: 1 July 2022
End Date: 30 June 2025
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Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
Primary:Micro/Nano Robots; Climbing Robots; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Soft Robot Materials and Design
Secondary:Biologically-Inspired Robots; Legged Robots; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Motion Control
Feb 1, 2022 - June 30 2025
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New York University
New York (NY), USA
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications, Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control, Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Secondary Areas: Visual-Based Navigation, Sensor Fusion, SLAM
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University Paris-Est Creìteil
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Primary Areas:Wearable Robots; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Physically Assistive Devices; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Secondary Areas: Rehabilitation Robotics; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
Primary Areas:Multi-Robot Systems; Distributed Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
Secondary Areas:Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Sensor Networks; Swarms; Task Planning; Visual Servoing; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Picardy Jules Verne
Amiens, France
Primary:Multi-Robot Systems; Cooperating Robots; Omnidirectional Vision; Visual-Based Navigation
Secondary:Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Optimization and Optimal Control; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications
April 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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Center for Research in Mathematics
Guanajuato, Mexico
Primary Areas:Motion and Path Planning; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Visual-Based Navigation; Wheeled Robots; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Computational Geometry
Secondary Areas:Virtual Reality and Interfaces; Semantic Scene Understanding; Range Sensing; Mapping; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Cooperating Robots; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Primary Keywords: Sensor-based Control; Visual Servoing; Motion Control; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Multi-Robot Systems; Dynamics; Dexterous Manipulation; Manipulation Planning; Motion and Path Planning
Secondary Keywords: Biomimetics; Domestic Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Education Robotics; Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems; Soft Robot Applications; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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Texas A&M University
College Station (TX), USA
Primary Areas: Computational Geometry; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
Secondary Areas: Task Planning; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Motion and Path Planning; Networked Robots
Associate Editor
Start Date- 1 July 2019
End Date- - 30 June 2022
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Meiji University
Tokyo, Japan
Primary Areas: Multifingered Hands; Grasping; Dexterous Manipulation; Tendon/Wire Mechanism; Grippers and Other End-Effectors;
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control, Dynamics; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Force Control
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor (MI), USA
Primary: Multi-Robot Systems; Motion and Path Planning; Robot Safety; Cooperating Robots; Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Collision Avoidance
Secondary:Autonomous Agents; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Distributed Robot Systems; Dynamics; Field Robots; Human-Centered Robotics
June 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Primary:Contact Modeling; Model Learning for Control; Optimization and Optimal Control; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Dexterous Manipulation
Secondary:Dynamics; Passive Walking; Humanoid Robots; Legged Robots; Underactuated Robots
Mar 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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INSA Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Primary Areas: Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Flexible robots
Secondary Areas:Mechanism Design; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Additive Manufacturing; Tendon/Wire Mechanism
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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New York University
Brooklyn (NY), USA
Primary Keywords: Legged robots; Optimization and Optimal Control; Model Learning for Control; Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Motion and Path Planning
Secondary Keywords: Mobile Manipulation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Humanoid Robots; Motion Control
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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Northwestern University
Evanston (IL), USA
Primary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Cellular and Modular Robots; Swarms; Sensor Networks; Multi-Robot Systems;
Secondary Areas: Distributed Robot Systems; Climbing Robots; Cooperating Robots; Micro/Nano Robots; Networked Robots; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Space Robotics and Automation; Virtual Reality and Interfaces
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Primary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Dexterous Manipulation; Nonholonomic Mechanisms and Systems; Underactuated Robots
Secondary Areas: Compliance and Impedance Control; Legged Robots; Motion Control; Passive Walking; Redundant Robots;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Primary:Motion Control; Contact Modeling; Motion and Path Planning; Dexterous Manipulation;
Secondary:Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Telerobotics and Teleoperation; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Optimization and Optimal Control;
May 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Siena
Siena, Italy
Primary:Grasping; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Wearable Robots; Human-Centered Robotics
Secondary:Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Manipulation Planning; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Dexterous Manipulation; Telerobotics and Teleoperation
May 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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Italian Institute of Technology
Genoa, Italy
Primary Areas: Legged Robots; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Climbing Robots; Motion Control
Secondary Areas: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Motion and Path Planning; Optimization and Optimal Control; Search and Rescue Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
Primary Areas: Biologically-inspired robotics; Biomimetics; Motion Control; Mechanism Design; Visual Tracking
Secondary Areas: Legged Robots; Computer Vision for Automation; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Behavior-Based Systems
Start Date: 1 July 2022
End Date: 30 June 2025
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University of Waterloo
Waterloo (ON), Canada
Primary:Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning; Networked Robotics; Motion and Path Planning; Nonholonomic Motion Planning; Motion Control; Task Planning; Distributed Robot Systems; Multi-Robot Systems; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Path Planning for Multiple Robots or Agents; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
Secondary:Social Human-Robot Interaction; Visual-Based Navigation; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Agent-Based Systems; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Collision Avoidance; Cooperating Robots; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Factory Automation; Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Physical Human-Robot Interaction
July 1 2022-June 30 2025
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Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Toulouse, France
Primary Areas: Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion; Optimization and Optimal Control; Humanoid Robots; Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning;
Secondary Areas: Motion and Path Planning; SLAM; Visual Servoing; Learning and Adaptive Systems
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Primary Areas: Mechanism Design; Soft Robot Applications; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Kinematics
Secondary Areas: Additive Manufacturing; Computational Geometry; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Biologically-Inspired Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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University of Seville
Seville, Spain
Primary Keywords: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control; Compliance and Impedance Control; Compliant Joint/Mechanism; Dexterous Manipulation
Secondary Keywords: Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Force Control; Mechanism Design
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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The University of Electro-Communications
Tokyo, Japan
Primary Keywords: Biologically-Inspired Robots; Search and Rescue Robots; Biomimetics; Redundant Robots
Secondary Keywords: Field Robots; Wheeled Robots; Kinematics; Climbing Robots
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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University of Maryland
College Park (MD), USA
Primary Areas: Cooperating Robots; Distributed Robot Systems; Field Robots; Marine Robotics; Multi-Robot Systems; Networked Robots; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Search and Rescue Robots; Sensor Networks; Swarms; Task Planning;
Secondary Areas: Aerial Systems: Applications; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Autonomous Agents; Computational Geometry; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Robotics in Hazardous Fields; Robotics in Construction;
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Boston University
Boston (MA), USA
Primary Areas: Multi-Robot Systems; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Visual Servoing; SLAM;
Secondary Areas: Dynamics; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Networks
Start Date-1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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University of Technology Sydney
Ultimo, Australia
Primary Keywords: Robotics Perception; Mapping; Localization; SLAM
Secondary Keywords: Cobots; Field Robots; Sensing
January 15, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Chicago (IL), USA
Primary:Autonomous Agents; Autonomous Vehicle Navigation; Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation; Field Robots; Human-Centered Robotics; Learning and Adaptive Systems; Learning from Demonstration; Localization; Mapping; Mobile Manipulation; Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Probability and Statistical Methods; RGB-D Perception; Semantic Scene Understanding; Sensor Fusion; SLAM; Visual Learning; Visual-Based Navigation
Secondary:Computer Vision for Automation; Computer Vision for Transportation; Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications; Education Robotics; Manipulation Planning; Marine Robotics; Motion and Path Planning; Software, Middleware and Programming Environments
Feb 1 2022 - June 30 2025
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Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Primary Keywords: Agricultural Automation; Assembly; Automation in Life Sciences: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Compliant Assembly; Dexterous Manipulation; Grasping; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Manipulation Planning; Manufacturing, Maintenance and Supply Chains; Mobile Manipulation; Motion and Path Planning; Multifingered Hands; Perception for Grasping and Manipulation; Planning, Scheduling and Coordination; Task Planning
Secondary Keywords: Building Automation; Factory Automation; Human Factors and Human-in-the-Loop; Human-Centered Automation; Human-Centered Robotics; Kinematics; Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry; Robotics in Construction; Wearable Robots
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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University of Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Austria
Primary:Sensor Fusion; Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy; Calibration and Identification; Visual-Based Navigation
Secondary:SLAM; Field Robots; Localization; Space Robotics and Automation
Feb 1 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Macau
Macau, China
Primary Areas: System Analysis and Design, Micro and Nanotechnology, Robotics, Mechatronics
Secondary Areas: Modeling and Simulation, Human-Centered Automation, Manufacturing, Life science
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Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenzhen, China
Primary Areas: Control Theory, System Analysis and Design, Robotics, Micro and Nanotechnology, Healthcare
Secondary Areas: Visual servoing
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University of the West of England
Bristol, United Kingdom
Primary Areas:Robot skill learning; Robot manipulation and grasping; Robot control design; Physical human robot interaction; Robot haptics; Collaborative automation; Teleoperation; Shared control;
Secondary Areas: Robot vision; Visual servoing control; Mobile robot navigation; SLAM; Multi-robot formation; Rehabilitation robot;
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin NT, Hong Kong, China
Primary Areas: Swarm; Automation at Micro-Nano Scales; Multi-Robot Systems; Micro/Nano Robots; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Biomimetics; Motion Control; Cellular and Modular Robots
Secondary Areas: Assembly; Biological Cell Manipulation; Flexible Robots; Medical Robots and Systems; Soft Robot Applications; Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Natural Machine Motion
Start Date- 1 July 2020
End Date- 30 June 2023
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Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Primary Areas:Soft Robot Materials and Design; Soft Sensors and Actuators; Force and Tactile Sensing; Grasping; Grippers and Other End-Effectors; Biologically-Inspired Robots; Prosthetics and Exoskeletons; Wearable Robots; Haptics and Haptic Interfaces; Mechanism Design
Secondary Areas:Additive Manufacturing; Biomimetics; Climbing Robots; Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators; Micro/Nano Robots; Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots; Parallel Robots
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
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Colorado State University
Fort Collins (CO), USA
Primary:Biologically-Inspired Robots;Mechanism Design;Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots;Soft Robot Materials and Design
Secondary:Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control;Compliant Joint/Mechanism;Grippers and Other End-Effectors;Soft Robot Applications;
May 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
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University of Technology Sydney
Ultimo, Australia
Primary Areas: SLAM; Computer Vision for Medical Robotics; Localization; Mapping; Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy
Secondary Areas: RGB-D Perception; Medical Robots and Systems; Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles; Optimization and Optimal Control
Start Date: July 1, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2024
Joining the Transactions on Robotics Editorial Board
The IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) is always looking for new Associate Editors. As minimum requirements to be eligible to serve as AE for T-RO, you must (1) have previously published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, (2) have previously served in some other editorial board position (e.g., the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, ICRA, IROS, etc.), and (3) be in a "permanent" position (e.g., not a student or a postdoc). For more information and to apply, please fill out this form.
AEs are selected based on their research expertise and its match to current needs of the board; judgment and the scientific quality of their research; international reputation; likely ability to recruit reviewers; diversity in research topic expertise, geography, and gender; and reliability and commitment to service. Typically, successful AE candidates have demonstrated their active involvement in the scientific life of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), including RAS journals and conferences. In some cases we are unable to offer AE positions even to highly-qualified candidates if we do not have sufficient current needs in the candidates' areas of expertise.
Applications are reviewed periodically, and we will contact you if there is a good fit between your qualifications and our current expertise needs.
