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the future participants of IROS 2037 at
the IROS's 50th anniversary. Several
memorable items from both academia
and industry that were suggested by
the participants of IROS 2013 were included in the time capsule, such as the
proceedings of IROS 1988, the first
IROS conference.
A large exhibition, with more than
20 industrial and academic exhibitors,
was held in collaboration with the International Robot Exhibition (iREX). This
exhibition is held every two years, and
2013 marked its 20th anniversary.

Robot manufacturers and other industry associates from Japan, a country
internationally recognized as the leader
in robot technology, all congregated
under one roof. The IROS participants
were also invited to visit the iREX exhibition just next door to the IROS conference site.
We offer our sincere thanks to all of
the participants who made the IROS
2013 conference a great success.

Jessica Klima PhotograPhy

Figure 10. "When AR Meets the OR:
Robotics and AR in Surgery," Allison
Okamura, IEEE, SXSW14.

Jessica Klima PhotograPhy

Figure 8. "Drones: Policy Privacy and Public
Safety," IEEE, Robin Murphy, SXSW14.

Jessica Klima PhotograPhy

-Kenji Suzuki,
IROS2013 Publicity Chair

Figure 9. From left, Dawn Tilbury, Elena
Messina, Heather Knight, and Henrik
Christensen, IEEE, SXSW14, "Welcoming
the Robot Workforce."

Figure 11. "Cloud Robotics: Instant
Scalability and Capability," IEEE, IEEESXSW,
Ken Goldberg.

IEEE and RAS at SXSW
The South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences and festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent
films, and emerging technologies. Held
7-16 March 2014, in Austin, Texas, the
IEEE presented the 2014 IEEE "Technology for Humanity" series, which
included a keynote by Adam Savage, the
executive producer and television show
cohost of the Discovery Channel's Series
MythBusters, as well as featured presentations by inventor and humanitarian
Dean Kamen, cybersecurity expert Dr.
P.W. Singer, USC body computing pioneer Dr. Leslie Saxon, and a host of leading technologists.
A number of RAS members participated as panelists in some of the sessions:
● "Drones: Privacy, Policy, and Public Safety," by Robin Murphy, Texas
A&M (Figure 8)
● "Welcoming the Robot Workforce," by
Elena Messina, the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Henrik Christensen, Georgia Institute
of Technology, and Dawn Tilbury,
University of Michigan (Figure 9)
● "When AR Meets the Operating
Room (OR): Robotics & AR in Surgery," by Katherine Kuchenbecker,
University of Pennsylvania, and Allison Okamura, Stanford University
(Figure 10)
● "Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability
and Capability," by Ken Goldberg,
University of California-Berkeley.
(Figure 11).

IEEE RAS Technical Education Program

ach year, the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society (RAS)
offers financial support for
three Technical Education Programs (TEPs), formerly known as Summer Schools. In an effort to bring the
RAS closer to its membership, these
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programs rotate though the Americas,
Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
This program supported the International Summer School on Social
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI),
which welcomed nearly 70 Ph.D. students and young researchers for an
intensive five days of lectures and workshops covering a wide range of topics in
social HRI.

The summer school was held at
Christ's College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Figure 1),
26-30 August 2013, and offered a wideranging program, including lectures,
discussions, and hands-on workshops
on topics such as social signal processing, robotics and autism, child-robot
interaction, multimodal communication, natural language interaction, smart

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