Papers containing original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of robotics, including (but not limited to) the following:

* Mechanisms: Design, Humanoids, Hands, Legged Systems, Snakes, Novel Actuators, Reconfigurable Robots, MEMS/NEMS, Micro/Nanobots
* Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control: Contact Modeling, Grasp Synthesis, Dexterous Manipulation, Assembly
* Human-Robot Interaction and Human Centered Systems: Brain-Machine Interfaces, Haptics, Tactile Interfaces, Telerobotics, Human Augmentation, Assistive Robots, Social Robots, Robots and Art
* Distributed Systems: Sensor Networks, Multi-Robot Systems, Networked Robots, Robot Soccer
* Mobile Systems and Mobility: Mapping, Localization, SLAM, Collision Avoidance, Exploration, Mobile Robot Control, High-Speed Navigation
* Applications: Underwater Robotics, Aerial/Space Robotics
* Medical Robotics: Robot-assisted procedures, Smart surgical tools, Rehabilitation robotics, Interventional therapy, Image-guided procedures, Surgical simulation, Soft-tissue modeling, Telesurgery
* Biological Robotics: Biomimetic robotics, Robotic investigation of biologicalscience and systems, Cell manipulation, Neurobotics, Prosthetics
* Robot Perception: Vision, Remote Sensing, Tactile Perception, Range Sensing
* Planning and Algorithms: Motion Planning, Mission Planning, Coordination, Complexity and Completeness, Computational Geometry, Robotics and Molecular Biology, Simulation
* Estimation and Learning for Robotic Systems: ReinforcementLearning, BayesianTechniques, Graphical Models, Imitation Learning, Programming by Demonstration, Diagnostics