初稿截稿日期：2019-07-17

初稿录用通知日期：2019-08-17

终稿截稿日期：2019-09-17

Advanced Robots are expected in their promising applications into various services dedicated to our society. The robots must bring great impacts to the society positively and negatively. Those impacts should be considered not only in the technical but also in the social aspects including safety, law, ethics, psychology and philosophy.

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－HRI and social robotics
－Safety issues of human-robot interactions in physical & psychological aspects
－Safety standards for advanced robots and autonomous systems
－Legal and ethical issues for advanced robots
－Robot business, marketing & economic impact
－Advanced industrial robots for future manufacturing
－Healthcare and medical applications
－Rehabilitation and transfer robots
－Service and assistance
－Entertainment and education
－Robotics and autonomous driving
－AI and robotics
－Bio-inspired robotics

Honorary Chairs

Jun Zhang, BIT, China

Toshio Fukuda, BIT, China

Qing Huang, BIT, China

Advisory Council Co-chairs

KazuhitoYokoi, AIST, Japan

Calros Balager, UC3M, Spain

Thomas Boch, TUM, Germany

Wan-Kyun Chung, POSTEC, Korea

PaoloDario, Scola Superior Sant’Ana, Italy

Shan-Ben Chen, SJTU, China

Luis Sentis, UT Austin, US

General Chair

Tatsuo Arai, BIT, China / UEC, Japan

Program Chair

Zhangguo Yu, BIT, China

Program Co-chairs

Abderrahmane Kheddar, CNRS, France

Yasushi Mae, Osaka Univ., Japan

Organizing Co-chairs

Jie Zhao, HIT, China

Tamio Tanikawa, AIST, Japan

Lorenzo Natale, IIT, Italy

Publications Chair

Zhidong Wang, CIT, Japan

Publications Co-chair

Xuechao Chen, BIT, China

Organized Session Co-chairs

Aiguo Ming, UEC, Japan

Publicity Chair

Qing Shi, BIT, China

Publicity Co-chairs

Tomohiro Umetani, Konan Univ., Japan

Tamim Asfour, KIT, Germany

Hong Zhang, Alberta Univ.

Lixin Dong, Michigan State Univ.

Financial Chair

Yong Zhou, BIT, China

Local Arrangement Co-chair

Ning Du, BIT, China