IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Article	Citations
Join the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) today	239
In Memoriam: Vincent Hayward (1955–2023) [Society News]	107
RAM Calendar - for September 2023 issue [Calendar]	79
The Art of Wine and Its Harvesting Methods [Student’s Corner]	76
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	72
Welcome New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters [Society News]	55
IEEE RAS SOCIETY AWARDS Call for Nominations	54
Calendar	44
IEEE Feedback	44
Robot of the Month	36
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	36
A Benchmarking Study of Vision-Based Robotic Grasping Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis	34
Contact Shape and Pose Recognition: Utilizing a Multipole Magnetic Tactile Sensor With a Metalearning Model	33
Development of a Dual-Arm Autonomous Container Unloading Robot System for Various Logistics Packages	33
Greetings From the Incoming Editor-in-Chief [From the Editor’s Desk]	33
A Survey on Small-Scale Testbeds for Connected and Automated Vehicles and Robot Swarms: A Guide for Creating a New Testbed [Survey]	32
The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots	32
Call for Nominations [Society News]	30
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	29
Force Dimension	28
Call for Nominations: IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Associate Editors [Society News]	28
IEEE Access	28
Ruminations on CES, Robotics, and the Future [President’s Message]	27
ABET’s New Accreditation Criteria for Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering: A Summary [Industry Activities]	26
The Challenges of Using Robots to Automate the Recycling of Electronic Devices: A New Approach Incorporating AI, Modularity, and Soft Robotics	26

Davide Scaramuzza to Receive the 2024 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award [Society News]	25
One-Click Reproducibility of Robotics Software: A Graphical Workflow Solution	25
IEEE Feedback	24
BEAR-H: An Intelligent Bilateral Exoskeletal Assistive Robot for Smart Rehabilitation	23
IEEE Access	23
Vibration Damping in Underactuated Cable-Suspended Artwork: Flying Belt Motion Control	22
Humanoid Robot RHP Friends: Seamless Combination of Autonomous and Teleoperated Tasks in a Nursing Context	21
IEEE App	21
Front Cover	21
Launching Queer in Robotics [Women in Engineering]	20
Leveraging Embodied Mechanical Intelligence for Learning Decluttering Tasks: Gripper Design Boosts Learning	19
Automation and Artificial Intelligence Technology in Surface Mining: A Brief Introduction to Open-Pit Operations in the Pilbara [Survey]	19
Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach	18
Hierarchical Planning With Object Keypoint-Axis Constraints for Robotic Manipulation: Proposing the PORM Framework	18
Biomimetic Force and Impedance Adaptation Based on Broad Learning System in Stable and Unstable Tasks: Creating an Incremental and Explainable Neural Network With Functional Linkage	17
Biomimetic Electric Sense-Based Localization: A Solution for Small Underwater Robots in a Large-Scale Environment	17
Kyujin Cho Elected as IEEE Robotics and Automation Society President for 2028–2029 Term [Society News]	17
Robotics ad	17
A Wormlike Robot for Ferromagnetic Surface Inspection: A Novel System Inspired by Caterpillars	17
Real-Time Generation of Near Minimum-Energy Trajectories via Constraint-Informed Residual Learning: A Paradigm for Learning From Optimal Solutions	17
2025 IEEE RAS Award Recipients Announced	17
Learning Perceptive Legged Robot Locomotion in the Real World: A Systematic Review	17
Becoming a Plenary or Keynote Speaker in an International Robotics Conference: Perspectives From an IEEE RAS Women in Engineering Panel [Women in Engineering]	16
Peter Luh, the Father of Automation [In Memoriam]	16
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants	16
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part 2: Acceleration and Advanced Applications	16
Call for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sustainability Grant Applications [Society News]	15
2025 IEEE RAS Chapter Initiative Grant Deadlines	15
Robot Cell Modeling via Exploratory Robot Motions: A Novel and Accessible Data-Driven Approach	15
RAM Calendar	14
Masthead	14
Drone Landing Performance in Windy Conditions: Comparing the Vertical and Horizontal Landing Approaches With the EAGLES Port	14
Insights from the 2025 Global Robotics Industry Funding Report [Industry Activities]	14
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Third BARN Challenge at ICRA 2024 [Competitions]	14
Robotics Ad	13
The Developments and Challenges Toward Dexterous and Embodied Robotic Manipulation: A Survey	13
A Road Map for Responsible Robotics: Promoting Human Agency and Collaborative Efforts	13
Toward Fully Autonomous Aviation: PIBOT, a Humanoid Robot Pilot for Human-Centric Aircraft Cockpits	13
IEEE App	13
Humanoid Robot Locomotion in Unstructured Environments: A Survey and Perspectives	13
Robots.ieee.org	12
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Our Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	12
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Welcomes New Associate Editors [Society News]	12
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	12
Tumbling Robot Control Using Reinforcement Learning: An Adaptive Control Policy That Transfers Well to the Real World	11
Recent Developments of Subsurface Small-Leak Detection Techniques in Water Distribution Networks: A Review	11
Is Open Robotics Innovation a Threat to International Peace and Security?: A Roadmap for Reducing Risks	11
Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation [Competitions]	11
A Two-Year Review of My Work as IEEE RAS President [President’s Message]	11
Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling	11

Neuromorphic Quadratic Programming for Efficient and Scalable Model Predictive Control: Towards Advancing Speed and Energy Efficiency in Robotic Control	10
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award [Society News]	10
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]	10
Cooperative Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Multi-Uncrewed-Aerial-Vehicle Planning and Lessons Learned	10
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	10
Call for Proposals 2024 RAS Technical Education Programs [Society News]	9
Take Your Preprint Research with the World!	9
Calendar	9
IEEE Ras Society Awards Call for Nominations [Society News]	9
2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Fellow Class Announced [Society News]	9
IEEE Access	9
Anniversaries Are a Good Time to Reflect on the Past, Present, and Future of Robotics and Automation [President’s Message]	9
Digital Robot Judge: Building a Task-Centric Performance Database of Real-World Manipulation With Electronic Task Boards	8
Toward Lifelong Learning for Industrial Defect Classification: A Proposed Framework	8
Gentle Machines, Tough Questions: Ethics in Soft Robotics	8
Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Planning: Using Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Traversability Prediction of Planetary Rovers	8
WiRA: Reshaping Recognition in Robotics and Automation for Gender Equity [Women in Engineering]	8
Visuo-Tactile Recognition of Partial Point Clouds Using PointNet and Curriculum Learning: Enabling Tactile Perception from Visual Data	8
Industrial Activities Board Grows to Meet New Challenges and Future Opportunities [Industry Activities]	8
IEEE Feedback	8
Humanoids and Robot Learning [President’s Message]	8
ICRA 2022 Highlights [Society News]	7
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-Free Design	7
Engine Agnostic Graph Environments for Robotics (EAGERx): A Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning	6
IEEE Moving	6
Online Tuning of Control Parameters for Off-Road Mobile Robots: Novel Deterministic and Neural Network-Based Approaches	6
Standards Update: Robot Task Representation Standard and User Guide Development [Standards]	6
ICRA @ 40: A Special Event to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ICRA and RAS [Society News]	6
Masthead	6
Call for Students Participating in IEEE Robotic Standardization Efforts (SPIRSE) [Society News]	6
KUKA	6
IEEE Feedback	6
Agricultural Robotics and Automation [TC Spotlight]	5
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon	5
Damping in Compliant Actuation: A Review	5
Table of Contents	5
Front Cover	5
Autonomous Ultraviolet-C Disinfection and Wiping Robot: Assessment in a Hospital Environment	5
Robot of the Month	5
Results Announced for the 2026 RAS AdCom Election	5
IEEE Connect	5
Submissions Policy and Guidelines: An Update [From the Editor’s Desk]	5
Long-Term Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Using a Bayesian Persistence Filter-Based Global Map Prediction	4
Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations, Class of 2024 [Society News]	4
Empowering the Next Wave of Robotics Innovators: Introducing the New RAS Young Professionals Committee [Young Profess Ionals]	4
Front Cover	4
An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling: Comfort and Human–Robot Interactions	4
Distributed Optimization Methods for Multi-Robot Systems: Part 2—A Survey	4
RAM Calendar - for March 2023 issue [Calendar]	4
Automated Behavior Planning for Fruit Tree Pruning via Redundant Robot Manipulators: Addressing the Behavior Planning Challenge	4
Development of Fault Detection Systems: The Hadoop Ecosystem Implementation	4
Table of Contents	4
Humans and the Environment [From the Editor’s Desk]	4
A Digital Twin of the Research Vessel Gunnerus for Lifecycle Services: Outlining Key Technologies	3
Museum Touring Through an Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Assistant: Improving Learnability and Memory Retention	3
Impacts of Design and Behavior on the Acceptance of Anthropomorphic Service Robots: Statistical Modeling of Post-Experiment Questionnaire Responses	3
GeMuCo: Generalized Multisensory Correlational Model for Body Schema Learning	3
Advancing the Human–Robot Frontiers Through Global Collaboration: A Recap of IROS 2025 in Hangzhou, China [Conference Highlights]	3
Variable Stiffness, Sensing, and Healing in FESTO’s FinRay Gripper: An Industry-Driven Design	3
Choreographing Collaboration: Creative Processes and Technologies in Live Human–Robot Performance	3
Agriculture Is a Big Topic: How Can Robots Help? [From the Editor’s Desk]	3
Robotics ad	3
IEEE Tech RXIV	3
Managing Safety and Ethical Norm Violations in Robotic Industrial Cells: An Ontological System Based on the IEEE 7007-2021 Standard	3
IEEE RAS SOCIETY AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS	3
Robot Ethics: Ethical, Legal, and User Perspectives in the Development and Application of Robotics and Automation [From the Guest Editors]	3
Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production	3
New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments	3
Bringing Magnetic Robotics to Medical Practice: Therapeutic, Diagnostic, and Rehabilitative Solutions	2
Enhancing Campus Mobility: Achievements and Challenges of the Snow Lion Autonomous Shuttle	2
IEEE Connecting	2
Anima Anandkumar to Receive the 2025 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award [Society News]	2
Safe and Effective Collaboration With a High-Payload Robot: A Framework Integrating Novel Hardware and Software Modules	2
Reconnecting the Diverse Community [From the Editor’s Desk]	2
Masthead	2
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on Marine Robots	2
FEA-Based Inverse Kinematic Control: Hyperelastic Material Characterization of Self-Healing Soft Robots	2
Call for Papers [Society News]	2
2023 Index IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Vol.30	2
Taking the First Step Toward Autonomous Quadruped Robots: The Quadruped Robot Challenge at ICRA 2023 in London [Competitions]	2

Humanoid Robotics: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Abilities for Human-Centered Environments [From the Guest Editors]	2
Front Cover	2
Embodied Artificial Intelligence for a Symbiotic Society: A Recap of IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan [Society News]	2
ICRA 2025 Workshop on Grand Challenges in Robotics for Nuclear Environments: A Call to Action [TC Spotlight]	2
Robotics ad	2
ArmAssist: A Telerehabilitation Solution for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation at Home	2
Table of Contents	2
Large-Language-Model-Aided Assistive Robot for Single-Operator Bimanual Teleoperation: Introduction and Validation of a Flexible Assistance System	2
Reviewing the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Growth and Success the Past Two Years [President’s Message]	2
RAM Calendar for December 2023 issue	2
IEEE Moving	1
2023 RAS AdCom Election [Society News]	1
IEEE Proceedings	1
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award [Society News]	1
Call for Applications: IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award for Outstanding Achievements in Commercializing Innovative and Automation Technology [Society News]	1
[Calendar]	1
Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons [Survey]	1
Front Cover	1
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge at ICRA 2022 [Competitions]	1
Integrating Software-Less Reflex Mechanisms Into Soft Robots and a Versatile Gripper: A New Bistable Method	1
Design and Control of the Humanoid Robot COMAN+: Hardware Capabilities and Software Implementations	1
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics: A Dedicated Venue for High-Impact Field Robotics Research [Society News]	1
Harnessing Robotics for European Union Forest Habitats Monitoring: Toward a Robotic-Assisted Framework for Standardized Field Surveys	1
2025 RAS AdCom Election Results	1
2025 RAS AdCom Election: Call for Nominations	1
IEEE Conversation	1
2024 IEEE RAS Award Recipients Announced	1
IEEE App	1
The World’s Best Robots Guide Just Got Better!	1
Robotics Ad	1
Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion Control for an Underwater Hexapod Robot: Sensing Leg–Terrain Interaction With Proprioceptive Sensors	1
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on the Arts and Robotics	1
The Open Stack of Tasks Library: OpenSoT: A Software Dedicated to Hierarchical Whole-Body Control of Robots Subject to Constraints	1
Upcoming Conferences	1
Calendar	1
IEEE Proceedings	1
The Education of a Roboticist [President’s Message]	1
IEEE Access	1
The Next Generation of Robotics: The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Detroit, MI, USA [Conference Highlights]	1
Mastering Research—Part 1/3: Choose Smart, Read Smarter! [Student’s Corner]	1
Paolo Dario to Receive the 2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award [Society News]	1
Table of Contents	1
Masthead	1
IEEE Moving filler	1
IEEE RAS Membership	1
The Franka Emika Robot: A Standard Platform in Robotics Research [Survey]	1
Fostering Innovation in Robotics Through Open Environments and Standards [Standards]	1
Field Robot for High-Throughput and High-Resolution 3D Plant Phenotyping: Towards Efficient and Sustainable Crop Production	1
Robotics ad	1
Enabling Homecare With Robotic Technologies [From the Guest Editors]	1
Calendar	1
IEEE Collabratec	1
Calendar	0
Augmented Reality and Human–Robot Collaboration Framework for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: System Design, Implementation, and Performance Metrics	0
The RAS Women in Engineering Committee in Conversation With RAS President Aude Billard [President’s Message]	0
2024 Index IEEE Robotics&Automation Magazine Vol. 31	0
In Memoriam: George A. Bekey (1928–2024) [Society News]	0
Responsible Roboticists [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
Masthead	0
Upcoming Conferences	0
We Are Not There Yet: Why Is Humanoid Robotics Hard? [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
When Robots Meet Artificial Intelligence: Let’s Do Better to Gain People’s Trust [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
2025 Index IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine	0
Open Source Dual-Purpose Acrobot and Pendubot Platform: Benchmarking Control Algorithms for Underactuated Robotics	0
Caveats on the First-Generation da Vinci Research Kit: Latent Technical Constraints and Essential Calibrations [Survey]	0
Deep Predictive Model Learning With Parametric Bias: Handling Modeling Difficulties and Temporal Model Changes	0
A Multimodal Fusion Model for Estimating Human Hand Force: Comparing surface electromyography and ultrasound signals	0
The Value of Diversity in the Robotics and Automation Society [Women in Engineering]	0
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Announces Its Newly Elected 2023 AdCom Members [Society News]	0
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Launches a Science and Technology Watch Board [President’s Message]	0
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	0
Motion Planning for Humanoid Locomotion: Applications to Homelike Environments	0
IEEE Launches New Study Group for Humanoids to Explore Current Standards Landscape and Develop Future Standards Roadmap [Standards]	0
Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations, Class of 2025	0
IEEE Access	0
RAM Calendar- for March 2025 issue	0
IEEE RAS Summer School on Cooperative Connected and Autonomous Agents [Education]	0
Autonomous Mario Kart in the Wild: Lessons Learned From the Earth Rover Challenge at IROS 2024 [Competitions]	0
Marine Robots: From Laboratories to the Real Underwater Adventure [From the Guest Editors]	0
Construction Robotics and Automation [TC Spot Light]	0
Responsible Service Robots: Navigating Ethical and Legal Challenges in Cities	0
WaterFormer: A Global–Local Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement With Environment Adaptor	0
Robotics and Automation Practice [President’s Message]	0
IEEE RAS Join	0
RAS Congratulates Our Recently Elevated Senior Members	0
Simulation to Real: Learning Energy-Efficient Slithering Gaits for a Snake-Like Robot	0
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants [Society News]	0
The Robotic Circulating Nurse: A World’s-First Prototype to Support Clinicians	0
Table of Contents	0
Human–Robot Interaction: Successes, Hurdles, and Remaining Challenges [Opinion]	0
IEEE Feedback	0
Women in Robotics: Insights Into the First International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in the Middle East [Women in Engineering]	0
Real-Time Localization Scoring for Challenging Industrial Environments: Practical Experiments With Bluepath Robotics	0
A Continuum Robot for Remote Applications: From Industrial to Medical Surgery With Slender Continuum Robots	0
Front Cover	0