SOCIETY NEWS 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Award Recipients Announced T he IEEE Robotics and Auto- mation Society (RAS) recognizes and congratulates the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to the RAS and the robotics and automation com- munity. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients. RAS Pioneer Award Dieter Fox: "For pioneering contri- butions to probabi- listic state estim- ation, RGB-D per- ception, machine learning in robotics, Dieter Fox and bridging aca- demic and industrial robotics research." Lydia Kavraki Lydia Kavraki: "For pioneering contri- butions to the invention of ran- domized motion- planning algorithms and probabilistic road maps." RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation John Hollerbach: "For foundational research on robot calibration and leadership and service in publica- tions, conferences, John Hollerbach and society man- agement." Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2020.2986572 Date of current version: 10 June 2020 180 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * JUNE 2020 Peter Corke Lynne Parker Peter Corke: "For foundational re - search on robot vision and for lead- ership and inno- vation in robotics education." Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation Eric Diller: "For his contributions to magnetic wireless microscale robots." Lynne Parker: "For foundational re - search in multiro- bot systems and leadership in RAS conferences and U.S. national AI policy." Eric Diller Alberto Rodriguez: "For his contribu- tions to dexterous robot manipula- tion." Alberto Rodriguez IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award Eugenio Guglielmelli: "For leadership in RAS conferences and publications including the estab- lishment of IEEE Transactions on Eugenio Guglielmelli Medical Robotics and Bionics." Kevin Lynch Kevin Lynch: "For leadership, ser- vice, and innova- tions in Society publications, con- ferences, and gov- ernance." RAS Early Government or Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation Aleksandra Faust: "For contributions to the integration of machine learning with robot motion Aleksandra Faust planning and control." IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation Fetch Robotics: "For inno- vations in the VirtualCon- The Fetch Robotics logo. veyor line of cloud-based autonomous mobile robots for material handling and transport."