The following topics are dealt with: aerial robotics; biologically inspired swimming robot; range sensing; human robot interaction; assistive technology; SLAM; autonomous navigation; path planning; multiple robot coordination; Al reasoning method; human detection; industrial robotics and automation; microscale automation; nanoscale automation; parallel robot control; snake robot locomotion; personal and service robot; compliant control; robot safety; behavior learning; multi-agent systems; motion planning; image matching and registration; surgical robot; place recognition; distributed robot systems; biomimetic robot; haptic interface; quadrotor control; bipedal locomotion; teleoperation; networked robots; mobile manipulation; visual odometry; flexible automation; flexible manufacturing; force control; actuators; humanoid robot; space robot; underwater robot; pose estimation; visual tracking; modular robot systems; omnidirectional vision; multibody systems; cellular robots; search robots; rescue robots; UAV; anthropomorphic robot; data fusion; kinematically redundant systems; virtual reality; intelligent transportation systems; micro-nano robotics; marine robotics; rehabilitation robotics; collision avoidance; robot localization; trajectory control; robotics software tools; robot kinematics; legged robot; tactile sensing; wheeled robots; robot swarms; visual learning; neurorobotics; robust control; adaptive control and visual servoing.