● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Suja P. Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore Section Heyder Paez Logreira Universidad de la Costa Colombian Caribbean Section Dimitra Panagou University of Michigan Southeastern Michigan Section Sarosh Patel University of Bridgeport Connecticut Section Francois Pomerleau Laval University Quebec Section Santanu Pradhan The Institute of Photonic Sciences Kolkata Section M. Arifur Rahman University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Hawaii Section Sivakumar Rathinam Texas A&M University Houston Section Christopher Reardon U.S. Army Research Laboratory Washington Section ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Fabio Ruggiero University of Naples Federico II Italy Section Jose Maria Sabater Navarro Miguel Hernandez University Spain Section Minoru Sasaki Gifu University Nagoya Section Davide Scaramuzza University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Switzerland Section Hyoung Il Son Chonnam National University Busan Section Jae-Bok Song Korea University Seoul Section Matthew Spenko Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Section Ning Sun Nankai University Beijing Section Tao Sun Tianjin University Beijing Section ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Girma Tewolde Kettering University Northeast Michigan Section Machiel Van Der Loos The University of British Columbia Vancouver Section Stavros Vougioukas University of California, Davis Sacramento Valley Section Phuoc Vu Aptiv Buenaventura Section Robert Wagoner Ridgetop Group Tucson Section Xiangyu Wang Southeast University Nanjing Section Jeffrey Watkins Philadelphia Section Chao Xu Zhejiang University Nanjing Section Youssef Zaz Abdelmalek Essaâdi University. Morocco Section Welcome to 18 New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters C ongratulations and welcome to the following newly orga- nized IEEE Robotics and Auto- mation Society (RAS) Chapters. Region 1 ● United States * Trinity College RAS Student Branch Chapter in the Connecti- cut Section * West Michigan Section IEEE Com- puter Society/RAS Joint Chapter. Region 5 United States ● Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2019.2951317 Date of current version: 11 December 2019 * IEEE Denver Section IEEE Informa- tion Theory Society/IEEE Computer Society/RAS Joint Chapter. Region 8 Jordan * Princess Sumaya University for Tech- nology RAS Student Branch Chapter ● Macedonia * Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology RAS Student Branch Chapter. ● ● ● Region 9 ● Brazil * University Federal do Rio Grande do Norte RAS Student Branch Chapter in the Bahia Section ● Chile * Concepcion University RAS Stu- dent Branch Chapter in the Chile Sur Section Colombia * Universidad de los Andes RAS Student Branch Chapter * Universidad Tecnologica De Boli- var RAS Student Branch Chapter Mexico * Instituto Tecnologico de Toluca RAS Student Branch Chapter. Region 10 ● Australia * New South Wales Section RAS Chapter. ● Bangladesh DECEMBER 2019 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * 149