IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - December 2018 - 2

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Vol. 25, no. 4 december 2018 issn 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Bram Vanderborght
(ram-eic@ieee.org)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

COLuMNs & DePartMeNts
4 FrOM tHe eDItOr's DesK
6 PresIDeNt's MessaGe
9 FrOM tHe Guest eDItOrs
96 tC sPOtLIGHt
98 HIstOrY
100 WOMeN IN eNGINeerING
102 INDustrY aCtIVItIes
106 INDustrY tutOrIaL
113 staNDarDs
115 stuDeNt's COrNer
117 etHICaL, LeGaL, aND sOCIetaL Issues

COLUMNS
Competitions: Minoru Asada (Japan)
and Yu Sun (USA)
Education: Jory Denny (USA)
Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues:
Raj Madhavan (USA)
From the Editor's Desk: Bram
Vanderborght (Belgium)
Industry News: Tamas Haidegger (Hungary)
Humanitarian Technology:
Raj Madhavan (USA)
Standards: Craig Schlenoff (USA)
President's Message: Wolfram Burgard
(Germany)
Regional Spotlight:
Tamim Asfour (Germany)
Student's Corner:
Srivatsan Srinivasan (USA)

119 COMPetItIONs
121 reGIONaL
123 CHaPter NeWs
126 sOCIetY NeWs
136 CaLeNDar

Women in Engineering:
Lydia Tapia (USA)
IEEE RAS Vice-President
of Publication Activities
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Universita Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)
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Turning Point:
Bram Vanderborght (Belgium)

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Editor
Yi Guo
Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)
Associate Editors
Panagiotis Artemiadis
Arizona State University (USA)
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
Virginia Tech (USA)
Fabio Bonsignorio
Sant'Anna School of Advanced
Studies (Italy)
Alexander Dietrich
German Aerospace Center-DLR (Germany)
Angela Faragasso
University of Tokyo (Japan)
Lorenzo Sabattini
University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Sören Schwertfeger
ShanghaiTech University, School of
Information Science and Technology (China)
Qining Wang
Peking University (China)
Past Editor-in-Chief
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Universita Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)
RAM Editorial
Assistant and Column Manager
Amy Reeder (USA)

TC Spotlight: Yasuhisa Hirata (Japan)

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