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Suction Microchannel," by Masahiro
Nakajima, Yuki Ayamura, Masaru
Takeuchi, Naoki Hisamoto, Strahil Pastuhov, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda, and Qiang Huang, in Proc. 2017 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Singapore, pp. 3678-3683.
Best Human-Robot Interaction
Paper Award
This award was presented for the paper
"Development of a Block Machine for
Volleyball Attack Training," by Kosuke
Sato, Keita Watanabe, Shuichi Mizuno,
Masayoshi Manabe, Hiroaki Yano, and
Hiro Iwata, in Proc. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Singapore, pp. 1036-1041.
Best Multirobot Systems
Paper Award
This award was presented for the paper
"The Robotarium: A Remotely Accessible Swarm Robotics Research Testbed,"

Daniel Pickem, by Paul Glotfelter, Li
Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron Ames, Eric
Feron, and Magnus Egerstedt, in Proc.
2017 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, Singapore, pp.
1699-1706.
ICRA Conference Editorial Board
Best Associate Editor Awards
● Pierre-Brice Wieber, INRIA RhôneAlpes
● Yonghuai Liu, Aberystwyth University.
ICRA Conference Editorial Board
Best Reviewer Awards
● Jeannette Bohg, Max-Planck Institute
for Intelligent Systems
● Cristina Garcia Cifuentes, MaxPlanck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Figure 4)
● Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
● Changhyun Choi, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

The IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society Adds a
New Technical Committee
It is our great pleasure to welcome a
new technical committee (TC) to the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
(RAS). The TC was approved by the
RAS Administrative Committee at its
29 May 2017 meeting in Singapore
and brings the total number of RAS
TCs to 40.
The Neuro-Robotics Systems
(NRS) TC is cochaired by Zhijun Li,
South China University of Technology;
Fe i C h e n , I t a l i a n I n s t i t u t e o f
Technology; Antonio Bicchi, University
of Pisa, Italy; Yu Sun, University of
Toronto, Canada; and Toshio Fukuda,
Naogya/Meijo University, Japan and
Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
You may find more information
about the NRS TC at http://www
.ieee-ras.org/neuro-robotics-systems.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2017.2722179
Date of publication: 13 September 2017

ICRA 2017 in Singapore
By Malika Meghjani, Albert Causo, and I-Ming Chen

his year, the IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society's
flagship conference, the IEEE
International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
was held in the garden city of
Singapore, 29 May-3 June 2017. Over
the years, ICRA has consistently
served as the knowledge hub for
roboticists, providing them with
state-of-the-art resources on diverse
topics within the robotics community.
Singapore raised the bar this year
with its perfect blend of programs for
academic, industrial, and government

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2017.2724338
Date of publication: 13 September 2017

Figure 1. Some technical sessions only had standing room left due to overflowing
attendance.

organizations at the iconic location of
Marina Bay Sands, situated in the
central business district with an exotic view of the city skyline and the
Singapore River.

ICRA was attended by 3,221 participants, who registered evenly across
all days of the conference, signifying
the meeting's huge success (Figure 1).
A total of 938 papers were accepted

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