IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - December 2020 - 2

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Vol. 27, No. 4 December 2020 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

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

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COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
9 STUDENT'S CORNER
10 FROM THE GUEST EDITORS
75 TC SPOTLIGHT
78 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
81 SOCIETY NEWS
88 CALENDAR

Editors
Fabio Bonsignorio
Heron Robots (Italy)
Yi Guo
Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)
Associate Editors
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
Virginia Tech (USA)
Elena De Momi
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Alexander Dietrich
German Aerospace Center-DLR (Germany)
Angela Faragasso
University of Tokyo (Japan)
Xiang Li
Tsinghua University (China)
Perla Maiolino
University of Cambridge (UK)
Sören Schwertfeger
ShanghaiTech University, School of
Information Science and
Technology (China)
Yue Wang
Clemson University (USA)
Past Editor-in-Chief
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Università Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)
RAM Column Manager
Amy Reeder (USA)
RAM Editorial Assistant
Antonella Benvenuto
Università Campus Bio-Medico (Italy)
COLUMNS
Competitions: Minoru Asada (Japan)
and Yu Sun (USA)
Education: Jory Denny (USA)
Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues:
Currently vacant
From the Editor's Desk: Bram
Vanderborght (Belgium)
Industry News: Tamas Haidegger
(Hungary)
Humanitarian Technology:
Lino Marques (Portugal)
Standards: Craig Schlenoff (USA)
President's Message: Seth Hutchinson (USA)
Regional Spotlight: Megan Emmons (USA)

Turning Point: Bram Vanderborght (Belgium)
Women in Engineering: Lydia Tapia (USA)
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of Publication Activities
Aude Billard
EPFL (Switzerland)
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TC Spotlight: Yasuhisa Hirata (Japan)

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Student's Corner: Marwa El Dinwiny
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