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IEEE Robotics and
Automation Award for Product
Innovation
l iRobot Corporation, Bedford,
Massachusetts: in recognition of
the iRobot Scooba 230 floor washing robot (Figure 4)
l Aldebaran Robotics: in recognition of the Nao humanoid robot for
fundamental contributions to the
foundations of control of robots and
teleoperators and for contributions to robotics education.
2010 K.S. Fu T-RO
Best Paper Award
The article "Design and Control of
Concentric-Tube Robots" by P.E.
Dupont, J. Lock, B. Itkowitz, and E.
Butler (vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 209-225) has
been selected as the winner of the
King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award for the
IEEE Transactions on Robotics in 2010
(Figure 5).
RAS's Most Active TC
The members of the TC are as follows:
mobile manipulation TC, cochairs-
Dov Katz, University of Massachusetts; Oliver Brock, Technische
Universit€at Berlin; and Siddhartha
Srinivasa, Carnegie Mellon University. Among the recent activities of
this committee are CoTeSys-ROS
Fall School on Cognition-Enabled
Mobile Manipulation in M€
unchen,
Germany; research camps on Mobile
Manipulation in Malaga, Costa del
Sol Spain; and a special issue on
mobile manipulation in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.
Chapter News
At their meeting in Shangai, the RAS
Member Activities Board (MAB)

KATHY COLABAUGH, IEEE

vice president, chair of the RAS
Conference Editorial Board, and
leader in making RAS the focal
point for haptics
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota: for his leadership in organizing and assisting
various RAS conferences and his
contributions and service to Conference Activities (Figure 3).

Figure 3. RAS Distinguished Service Award (from left): Ken Goldberg, Nikolaos
Papanikolopoulos, RAS Awards chair Tzyh-Jong Tarn, and Antonio Bicchi.

approved applications for US$2,000
Chapter Development Grants from
three RAS local Chapters.
l Colombia Chapter Latin American
Robotics Competition and Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, May-November 2011
l Southern Alberta Chapter Support
of Western Canada Robotic Games,
January-May 2012
l South Africa RAS Control Systems Society Chapter three seminars and promotion of Chapter
activities.
MAB will consider additional proposals at their
meeting in San Francisco
during the International
Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems in
September 2011. An application form can be
downloaded from http://
www.ieee-ras.org/uploads/
member/ChapterRequest
Form-2011-ver2.doc. Send
filled application forms
and questions to Rosalyn Snyder at administrator@ieee-ras.org.
RAS Chapter
of the Year
Tunisia, Hala Bezine chair:
This relatively new Chapter

has devoted a great deal of effort in
educational outreach to precollege
students.
Chapter Chairs
Meet in Shanghai
A meeting of RAS local Chapter
chairs was organized by the RAS
MAB Chapter and International
Activities Committee during ICRA
2011 in Shanghai. This meeting focused on strengthening the relations
between MAB and local Chapters.

Figure 4. iRobot's Scooba cleans a bathroom floor.
(Photo courtesy of iRobot.)

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