Society News RAS for Disaster Risk Reduction T he United Nations Interna- tional Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduc- tion 2015-2030 was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27-29 January 2016. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) President Satoshi Tadokoro, as a representative of the IEEE RAS Special In- terest Group on Humanitarian Technology International Committee of Robotics on Disaster Risk Reduction, presented Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2016.2550918 Date of publication: 17 June 2016 Figure 1. RAS President Satoshi Tadokoro presenting a poster at the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. a poster to demonstrate examples of actual robotic contributions for disas- ter risk reduction and to represent the leadership of RAS in bridging gaps toward the social implementation of robotics (Figures 1 and 2). Figure 2. The disaster risk reduction poster presented by RAS President Satoshi Tadokoro at the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. 94 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * JUNE 2016