The theme of the conference is “Humanoid Robot Cognition”, reflecting the growing need to create robots that can function in natural environments. The contributed papers can include but are not limited to the following list of topics:

• Mechanism design and control of humanoid robots
• Software and hardware architecture, system integration
• Stability and dynamics for humanoid robots
• Whole body motion planning and control
• Learning strategies for humanoid robots
• Imitation learning
• Perception for humanoid robots
• Humanoid grasping and manipulation
• Human-humanoid interaction
• Planning and cognition on humanoid robots
• Human body and behavior modeling
• Neuro-robotics and robot-brain interfaces for humanoids
• Humanoid robot applications