IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Networked Robots

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Call for papers:
ACM International Workshop Smart Gadgets Meet Ubiquitous and Social Robots on the Web (UbiRobots'12)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 8, 2012
Submission : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ubirobtos12
Website : https://sites.google.com/site/ubirobots2012/

IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submission due date: June 10, 2012
Paper notification acceptance/rejected: June 23, 2012.

Our TC will organize a symposium titled "Networked Robots Everywhere" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011) in San Francisco, California, USA, between September 25-30, 2011.

More information is available on the symposium page.

I recently attended the Ubiquitous Networking Robot workshop at IROS 2010 in Taipei. This was the 11th workshop in a series at IROS and ICRA conferences since its inception in 2004. Presenters included academic speakers from several organizations in Japan and the European Union, representatives from industry, including Toshiba and NEC, and an invited talk from Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, from Osaka University.

With the growing emergence of ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and wireless networking technologies, “ubiquitous networked robotics“ is becoming an active research domain of intelligent autonomous systems. It targets new innovative applications in which robotic systems will be integrated into ubiquitous computing environments as physical autonomous entities. These entities are able to interact autonomously with the ambient environment and provide added value services like assisting people in smart homes, offices, buildings and public spaces.