Primary Areas: Robotics (Manipulation; Robot programming; Autonomous robots; Motion planning); Human‐Centered Automation (Human‐robot interaction/interface, Interaction control, Collaborative robotics); Robotic manipulation; Physical human-robot interaction, Human-robot collaboration; Learning from demonstration; Imitation learning; Collaborative robotics, Complaint control; and Stiffness/force control.

Secondary Areas: Grasping; Robot simulation; Motion planning; Learning control systems; and optimization for robotics Control Theory (Learning control systems; Model predictive control); Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Iterative learning control; Intelligent control)