IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - March 2022 - 2

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Vol. 29, No. 1 March 2022 ISSN 1070-9932 http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
4 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
8 FROM THE GUEST EDITORS
92 INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES
99 TC SPOTLIGHT
102 COMPETITIONS
108 SOCIETY NEWS
120 EDUCATION
124 CALENDAR
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Editor-in-Chief
Yi Guo
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Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)
Editors
Elena De Momi
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Jindong Tan
University of Tennessee (USA)
Associate Editors
Ming Cao
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Feifei Chen
Jiao Tong University (China)
Carlos A. Cifuentes
Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
Kingsley Fregene
Lockheed Martin (USA)
Antonio Frisoli
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)
Jonathan Kelly
University of Toronto (Canada)
Ka-Wai Kwok
The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Xiang Li
Tsinghua University (China)
Perla Maiolino
University of Cambridge (UK)
Surya G. Nurzaman
Monash University (Malaysia)
Weihua Sheng
Oklahoma State University (USA)
Yue Wang
Clemson University (USA)
Enrica Zereik
CNR-INM (Italy)
Houxiang Zhang
Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (Norway)
Past Editor-in-Chief
Bram Vanderborght
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
RAM Column Manager
Amy Reeder (USA)
RAM Editorial Assistant
Joyce Arnold (USA)
COLUMNS
Competitions: Minoru Asada (Japan)
and Yu Sun (USA)
Education: Vacant
From the Editor's Desk: Yi Guo (USA)
Industry News: Tamas Haidegger
(Hungary)
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