Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Actuator design, robotic mechanisms and design, robot kinematics and dynamics
• Agile Manufacturing
• Agriculture, construction, industrial automation, manufacturing process
• Automation and control systems, middleware
• Biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, welfare robotics and mechatronics
• Cellular Manufacturing
• Concurrent Engineering
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• Distributed Control Systems
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Humanoid robots, service robots
• Human-robot interaction, semi-autonomous systems, telerobotics
• Information Technology Applied to
• Knowledge Based Systems
• Lean Manufacturing Logistics
• Management of Technology  	
• Manufacturing
• Mining robotics
• Mobile robotics
• Modeling and Simulation Scheduling
• Nano/micro systems and applications, biological and medical applications
• Navigation, localization, manipulation
• Operations Management
• Rapid Prototype
• Rescue, hazardous environments
• Robot intelligence and learning
• Robot vision and audition
• Robots and Automation
• Sensor design, sensor fusion, sensor networks
• Sensor development
• Sensors and Applications
• Sustainability, energy conservation, ecology
• Machine Vision