New Boundaries for Robotics

Conference Theme: Robotics is a synergistic discipline merging discoveries and inventions from various fields of science and technology. With inspiration from other disciplines we are able to build new kinds of robots that can serve humans in interesting and novel ways. The theme of ICAR 2011 is New Boundaries for Robotics. It will seek to share innovative ideas, weird connections, and unexpected mixes of technologies, methods and approaches which have been applied to solve new kinds of problems in emerging application areas.

Organizing committee:
Maarja Kruusmaa, General Chair
Xiaobo Tan, Program Chair
Raj Madhavan, Publication Chair
Paolo Fiorini, Finance Chair

The technical program of ICAR 2011 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics but in particular focusing on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to:

Cognitive control in robotics
New materials in robotics
Robotic human companions
Bio-inspired actuation mechanisms
Bio-inspired sensors and sensing paradigms
Biomimetic and bio-inspired robots
Nanorobotics
Wearable robots and enhanced embodiment
Dexterous object manipulation
Embodiment and morphological computing in robotics
Cumulative robot learning and cumulative knowledge representation
Evolutionary and self-assembling robots
Self-awareness of robots and robot teams
Multimodal interfaces for human robot interaction
Models of natural and robot cognition
Emergent behavior in robotic systems
Robots for arts, entertainment and social interaction
Performance evaluation, benchmarking and standardization of
intelligent robotic systems

Submitted manuscripts undergo full-paper peer review. The accepted papers will be published in IEEE Explore, indexed by ISI Proceedings and EI.