IEEE ROBIO 2008 (IEEE 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics)

The 2009 ROBIO will be held in Guilin of Guangxi, a famous tourism city in China on December 18-22, 2009. (Call for Paper)
ROBIO 2008 Best Conference Papers T.J. Tarn Best Paper Award "A Mechanical Model of Biological Cells in Microinjection" Youhua Tan (Suzhou Res. Inst. of City U. of Hong Kong, China), Dong Sun, Wenhao Huang Best Student Paper Award "Coordinated Three-Dimensional Robotic Self-Assembly" Jonathan Kelly (U. of Southern California, USA), Hong Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada) Best Poster Award "A Novel Propulsion Mechanism Using a Fin with a Variable-Effective-Length Spring" Masataka Nakabayashi (Shinshu Univ., Japan), Reiji Kobayashi, Shunichi Kobayashi, Hirohisa Morikawa
Erratum: The PDF file of paper 0114 in "papers" folder in the conference CDROM should be updated by 0114.pdf.
	Conference Schedule

Final Submission		Call for Papers

Workshops and Technical Tour		Organizing Committee

Registration		Program Committee

Hotel Reservation		Sponsors

Plenary Talk 1 Feb. 23th, Monday

Human Adaptive Mechtronics and Analysis of Human Emotional Level Professor Katsuhisa Furuta President, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Plenary Talk 2 Feb. 24th, Tuesday

Industrial Robotics - Trends and Opportunities in a Changing World Dr. Sonke Kock ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Plenary Talk 3 Feb. 25th, Wednesday

Robotic Technology for Damaged Nervous System Professor Joel W. Burdick California Institute of Technology, USA
Important Dates

August 4, 2008: Submission of original PDF full papers & video clips
August 4, 2008: Submission of proposals for tutorials & workshops
October 5, 2008: Notification of paper, video clip and T/W acceptance
October 27, 2008: Submission of final IEEE PDF papers & video clips


The Conference Venue: Imperial Queen's Park Hotel Bangkok