IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Article	Citations
Design Optimization of Soft Robots: A Review of the State of the Art	104
Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects	90
Accelerating Surgical Robotics Research: A Review of 10 Years With the da Vinci Research Kit	74
The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education	64
Robotic Waste Sorting Technology: Toward a Vision-Based Categorization System for the Industrial Robotic Separation of Recyclable Waste	63
Building an Aerial–Ground Robotics System for Precision Farming: An Adaptable Solution	59
Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic	52
The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation	43
UV-C Mobile Robots with Optimized Path Planning: Algorithm Design and On-Field Measurements to Improve Surface Disinfection Against SARS-CoV-2	42
Underwater Mobile Manipulation: A Soft Arm on a Benthic Legged Robot	40
Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network	40
A Novel Soft Robotic Hand Design With Human-Inspired Soft Palm: Achieving a Great Diversity of Grasps	39
Expanding Pouch Motor Patterns for Programmable Soft Bending Actuation: Enabling Soft Robotic System Adaptations	33
SoRoSim: A MATLAB Toolbox for Hybrid Rigid–Soft Robots Based on the Geometric Variable-Strain Approach	32
Spatial Computing and Intuitive Interaction: Bringing Mixed Reality and Robotics Together	32
A Review of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Typical Configurations, Analysis Techniques, and Control Methods	29
DQ Robotics: A Library for Robot Modeling and Control	27
Safety and Efficiency in Robotics: The Control Barrier Functions Approach	24
Pose-Based Tactile Servoing: Controlled Soft Touch Using Deep Learning	24
A Robotic Health-Care Assistant for COVID-19 Emergency: A Proposed Solution for Logistics and Disinfection in a Hospital Environment	22
A Digital Twin of the Research Vessel Gunnerus for Lifecycle Services: Outlining Key Technologies	20
An Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Robotic Assistants in Caregiving: Core Functionalities and Use Cases	20
A Tapered Soft Robotic Oropharyngeal Swab for Throat Testing: A New Way to Collect Sputa Samples	18
A Continuum Robot for Remote Applications: From Industrial to Medical Surgery With Slender Continuum Robots	18
Mental and Emotional Health Care for COVID-19 Patients: Employing Pudu, a Telepresence Robot	17

The Role of Robotics in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—The Experts’ Meeting at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop [Industry Activities]	16
The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]	16
Can Robots Refill a Supermarket Shelf?: Motion Planning and Grasp Control	16
Benchmarking Torque Control Strategies for a Torsion-Based Series Elastic Actuator	16
Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers Across Europe	15
Dual-Arm Control for Coordinated Fast Grabbing and Tossing of an Object: Proposing a New Approach	15
Underwater Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Robustness Validation for Safe Human–Robot Interaction	14
Robot Dynamics Identification: A Reproducible Comparison With Experiments on the Kinova Jaco	14
Contact Shape and Pose Recognition: Utilizing a Multipole Magnetic Tactile Sensor With a Metalearning Model	13
FEA-Based Inverse Kinematic Control: Hyperelastic Material Characterization of Self-Healing Soft Robots	12
Using Robotics in Laboratories During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review	12
Design and Optimization of a Dextrous Robotic Finger: Incorporating a Sliding, Rotating, and Soft-Bending Mechanism While Maximizing Dexterity and Minimizing Dimensions	11
Damping in Compliant Actuation: A Review	11
Intelligent Blockchain-Enabled Communication and Services: Solutions for Moving Internet of Things Devices	11
A Multimodal Fusion Model for Estimating Human Hand Force: Comparing surface electromyography and ultrasound signals	10
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge at ICRA 2022 [Competitions]	10
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]	10
ARviz: An Augmented Reality-Enabled Visualization Platform for ROS Applications	10
WRAPP-up: A Dual-Arm Robot for Intralogistics	10
Digital Technologies and Automation: The Human and Eco-Centered Foundations for the Factory of the Future [TC Spotlight]	9
Prioritized Experience Replay-Based Deep Q Learning: Multiple-Reward Architecture for Highway Driving Decision Making	9
Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?	9
Finite Element Analysis-Based Soft Robotic Modeling: Simulating a Soft Actuator in SOFA	9
Long-Term Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Using a Bayesian Persistence Filter-Based Global Map Prediction	9
An Intelligent Rehabilitation Robot With Passive and Active Direct Switching Training: Improving Intelligence and Security of Human–Robot Interaction Systems	8
Toward Holistic Scene Understanding: A Transfer of Human Scene Perception to Mobile Robots	8
The $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition: How It Advanced Immersive Telepresence Systems	8
CARE: Cooperation of ai Robot Enablers to Create a Vibrant Society	8
A Hybrid Visual–Haptic Framework for Motion Synchronization in Human–Robot Cotransporting: A Human Motion Prediction Method	8
Guided Reinforcement Learning: A Review and Evaluation for Efficient and Effective Real-World Robotics [Survey]	8
ArmAssist: A Telerehabilitation Solution for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation at Home	8
Reinforcement Learning Based, Staircase Negotiation Learning: Simulation and Transfer to Reality for Articulated Tracked Robots	8
Simulation to Real: Learning Energy-Efficient Slithering Gaits for a Snake-Like Robot	8
A Robust Visual Servoing Controller for Anthropomorphic Manipulators With Field-of-View Constraints and Swivel-Angle Motion: Overcoming System Uncertainty and Improving Control Performance	7
A Tool for Organizing Key Characteristics of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human–Robot Interaction Systems: Synthesizing VAM-HRI Trends and Takeaways	7
AR3n: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Assist-as-Needed Controller for Robotic Rehabilitation	7
IEEE Standard for Autonomous Robotics Ontology [Standards]	7
Assistive Robotic Technologies for Next-Generation Smart Wheelchairs: Codesign and Modularity to Improve Users’ Quality of Life	7
Testing Gecko-Inspired Adhesives With Astrobee Aboard the International Space Station: Readying the Technology for Space	7
Mobile Manipulation Hackathon: Moving into Real World Applications	6
The Stewart Hand: A Highly Dexterous, Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Manipulator Based on the Stewart-Gough Platform	6
Proactive Robot Assistance: Affordance-Aware Augmented Reality User Interfaces	5
Open Source Dual-Purpose Acrobot and Pendubot Platform: Benchmarking Control Algorithms for Underactuated Robotics	5
BEAR-H: An Intelligent Bilateral Exoskeletal Assistive Robot for Smart Rehabilitation	5
A RoboStack Tutorial: Using the Robot Operating System Alongside the Conda and Jupyter Data Science Ecosystems	5
Time for Change: The Case of Robotic Food Processing [Industry Activities]	5
A Methodology for Approaching the Integration of Complex Robotics Systems: Illustration Through a Bimanual Manipulation Case Study	5
Detect-Remove-Replace: A Robotic Solution That Enables Unmanned Continuous 3D Printing	5
A Whole-Body Integrated AVATAR System: Implementation of Telepresence With Intuitive Control and Immersive Feedback	5
Design, Testing, and Evolution of Mars Rover Testbeds: European Space Agency Planetary Exploration	5

Opportunities and Challenges to Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Manufacturing Systems: Thoughts From a Panel Discussion [Opinion]	5
Biomimetic Electric Sense-Based Localization: A Solution for Small Underwater Robots in a Large-Scale Environment	5
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part I: Kinematics, Velocity, and Applications	5
USMA-BOF: A Novel Bag-of-Features Algorithm for Classification of Infected Plant Leaf Images in Precision Agriculture	4
Touching the Sound: Audible Features Enable Haptics for Robot Control	4
New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments	4
A Cable-Driven Hyperredundant Manipulator: Obstacle-Avoidance Path Planning and Tension Optimization	4
Grasping Robot Integration and Prototyping: The GRIP Software Framework	4
A Simple Visual-Servoing Task on a Low-Accuracy, Low-Cost Arm: An Experimental Comparison Between Belief Space Planning and Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers	4
Metrics for 3D Object Pointing and Manipulation in Virtual Reality: The Introduction and Validation of a Novel Approach in Measuring Human Performance	4
A Method for a Compliant Robot Arm to Perform a Bandaging Task on a Swaying Arm: A Proposed Approach	4
Efficient Cooperation of Heterogeneous Robotic Agents: A Decentralized Framework	4
Open Robot Hardware: Progress, Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices	4
Robotic Assessment of a Crop’s Need for Watering: Automating a Time-Consuming Task to Support Sustainable Agriculture	4
Distributed Optimization Methods for Multi-Robot Systems: Part 1—A Tutorial [Tutorial]	3
An Aerial Manipulator for Robot-to-Robot Torch-Relay Task: System Design and Control Scheme	3
Structured Ecological Cultivation With Autonomous Robots in Agriculture: Toward a Fully Autonomous Robotic Indoor Farming System	3
Caveats on the First-Generation da Vinci Research Kit: Latent Technical Constraints and Essential Calibrations	3
Augmented Reality-Assisted Reconfiguration and Workspace Visualization of Malleable Robots: Workspace Modification Through Holographic Guidance	3
Best Practices in Robotics Education: Perspectives from an IEEE RAS Women in Engineering Panel [Women in Engineering	3
Distributed Optimization Methods for Multi-Robot Systems: Part 2—A Survey	3
A Novel Telerehabilitation Approach for Cognitive-Language Therapy in Chronic Stroke Subjects With Aphasia: Neurocognitive Intervention Through Neurorehabilitation Exercises and Assessments	3
A Small-Scale, Rat-Inspired Whisker Sensor for the Perception of a Biomimetic Robot: Design, Fabrication, Modeling, and Experimental Characterization	3
Teaching With Hapkit: Enabling Online Haptics Courses With Hands-On Laboratories	3
Robotic Volatile Sampling for Early Detection of Plant Stress: Precision Agriculture Beyond Visual Remote Sensing	3
Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach	3
Electronic Skin as Human–Robot Interface for Human Grasp Recognition in Home-Care Robots: Introducing a Complete Set of Resources	3
Emerging Paradigms for Robotic Manipulation: From the Lab to the Productive World [From the Guest Editors]	3
The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Accelerator for the Robotics Industry? [Young Professionals]	3
The Cluttered Environment Picking Benchmark (CEPB) for Advanced Warehouse Automation: Evaluating the Perception, Planning, Control, and Grasping of Manipulation Systems	3
Field Robot for High-Throughput and High-Resolution 3D Plant Phenotyping: Towards Efficient and Sustainable Crop Production	3
Mastering the Complex Assembly Task With a Dual-Arm Robot: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Method	3
Proof of Work Is a Stigmergic Consensus Algorithm: Unlocking Its Potential	3
SofToss: Learning to Throw Objects With a Soft Robot	3
Astrobotics: Swarm Robotics for Astrophysical Studies	3
Gender Diversity of Conference Leadership [Women in Engineering]	2
Collaborative Bimanual Manipulation Using Optimal Motion Adaptation and Interaction Control: Retargeting Human Commands to Feasible Robot Control References	2
A Study on the Dexterity of Surgical Robotic Tools in a Highly Immersive Virtual Environment: Assessing Usability and Efficacy	2
Women in Blue: Toward a Better Understanding of the Gender Gap in Marine Robotics [Women in Engineering]	2
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Second BARN Challenge at ICRA 2023 [Competitions]	2
Toward Sustainable and Accessible Mobility: A Functional Electrical Stimulation-Based Robotic Bike With a Fatigue-Compensation Algorithm and Mechanism for Cybathlon 2020	2
Augmented Reality and Human–Robot Collaboration Framework for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: System Design, Implementation, and Performance Metrics	2
Identification and Assessment of Educational Experiences: Utilizing Data Mining With Robotics	2
A Robotic System for Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery: Design, Dexterity Optimization, and Prototyping	2
An Unmanned Surface Vehicle for the Launch and Recovery of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Novel Design	2
Verification of Autonomous Systems [TC Spotlight]	2
Tensegristats: Lightweight Untethered Morphing Robots	2
Biomimetic Perception, Cognition, and Control: From Nature to Robots [From the Guest Editors]	2
Models of Human Behavior for Human–Robot Interaction and Automated Driving: How Accurate Do the Models of Human Behavior Need to Be?	2
Robotics and Automation [President's Message]	2
The Rapid Rise of Quadruped Robots [Young Professionals]	2
Robotics Responds to the COVID-19 Outbreak [From the Guest Editors]	2
Fully Autonomous Brick Pick and Place in Fields by Articulated Aerial Robot: Results in Various Outdoor Environments	2
Suitability of Various Lidar and Radar Sensors for Application in Robotics: A Measurable Capability Comparison	2
Tumbling Robot Control Using Reinforcement Learning: An Adaptive Control Policy That Transfers Well to the Real World	2
Robotic Hands, Grasping, And Manipulation [TC Spotlight]	1
Reinforcement-Learning-Based Local Search Approach to Integrated Order Batching: Driving Growth for Logistics and Retail	1
How to Make a Good Robot Video [Media]	1
The Italy–Japan Workshop: A History of Bilateral Cooperation, Pushing the Boundaries of Robotics	1
Agriculture Is a Big Topic: How Can Robots Help? [From the Editor’s Desk]	1
Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production	1
Controlling Maneuverability of a Bio-Inspired Swimming Robot Through Morphological Transformation: Morphology Driven Control of a Swimming Robot	1
Next-Generation Furniture Assembly by AI and Robots: Team SK2Y: A Winner of the Furniture Assembly Competition at AI–Robot Challenge 2021	1
Vision-Based Cow Tracking and Feeding Monitoring for Autonomous Livestock Farming: The YOLOv5s-CA+DeepSORT-Vision Transformer	1
Agricultural Robotics and Automation [TC Spotlight]	1
The Value of Diversity in the Robotics and Automation Society [Women in Engineering]	1
Learning Fast and Precise Pixel-to-Torque Control: A Platform for Reproducible Research of Learning on Hardware	1
Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion Control for an Underwater Hexapod Robot: Sensing Leg–Terrain Interaction With Proprioceptive Sensors	1
The Vanderbilt Open-Source Ventilator: From Napkin Sketch to Ready to Save Lives in Three Weeks	1
Safe and Effective Collaboration With a High-Payload Robot: A Framework Integrating Novel Hardware and Software Modules	1
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part 2: Acceleration and Advanced Applications	1
Roboticists and Reporters: A rhetorical experiment at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, France)	1
Automation and Artificial Intelligence Technology in Surface Mining: A Brief Introduction to Open-Pit Operations in the Pilbara	1
Digital Robot Judge: Building a Task-centric Performance Database of Real-World Manipulation With Electronic Task Boards	1
Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems: Needing Common Sense to Achieve Higher Levels of Autonomy [Opinion]	1
The Present and the Future of Cognitive Robotics [TC Spotlight]	1
Geranos: A Novel Tilted-Rotors Aerial Robot for the Transportation of Poles	1
Masthead	1
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon	1
Design Optimization of Soft Robots [From the Guest Editors]	1

Autonomous Robot Racing Competitions: Truly Multivehicle Autonomous Racing Competitions [Competitions]	1
A Successful Hybrid ICRA 2021 [Society News]	1
2022 Index IEEE Robotics&Automation Magazine Vol. 29	1
What Is the Proper Gait Pattern for People With Paraplegia Who Wear Powered Exoskeletons?: Re-examining gait patterns of existing powered exoskeletons	1
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	1
Variable Stiffness, Sensing, and Healing in FESTO’s FinRay Gripper: An Industry-Driven Design	1
RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish	1
Balancing Stability and Stiffness Through the Optimization of Parallel Compliance: Using Coupled Tendon Routing	1
The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots	1
Visuo-Tactile Recognition of Partial Point Clouds Using PointNet and Curriculum Learning: Enabling Tactile Perception from Visual Data	1
Making an Opportunity Out of a Crisis: The Inclusive Approach of the Italian Robotics Community	1
Recent Developments of Subsurface Small-Leak Detection Techniques in Water Distribution Networks: A Review	1
Soft Robotics: The Journey Thus Far and the Challenges Ahead [TC Spotlight]	1
Deep Predictive Model Learning With Parametric Bias: Handling Modeling Difficulties and Temporal Model Changes	1
Bionic Underwater Vehicle: A Data-Driven Disturbance Rejection Control Framework	0
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
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New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Standards Study Group on Service Robotics [Standards]	0
Pioneering Innovation in Autonomous Robotics: IEEE RAS ICRA 2024 Bots & Bento Competition [Competitions]	0
Engine Agnostic Graph Environments for Robotics (EAGERx): A Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning	0
Congratulations to Rodney Brooks, Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Founders Medal: Brooks Created Subsumption, an Architecture for Designing Layered Real-Time Control of Complex Robotic Systems That Has Ena	0
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ICRA 40: a Special Event to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ICRA and RAS	0
ICRA 2022 Highlights [Society News]	0
IROS 2021 Online in Prague [Society News]	0
Machine Learning for Industry 4.0 [From the Guest Editors]	0
Rethinking the Research Paper [President’s Message]	0
How Technology Alters Morality and Why It Matters [Ethics]	0
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In Memoriam: Vincent Hayward (1955–2023) [Society News]	0
Learning to Adapt [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
Inflection Points [President’s Message]	0
IEEE CASE Auckland 2023 [Society News]	0
IEEE Access	0
Innovation Paths for Machine Learning in Robotics [Industry Activities]	0
Robots.IEEE.org	0
RAM Welcomes Nine New Associate Editors [Society News]	0
Embracing Robotics and Intelligent Machine Systems for Smart Agricultural Applications [From the Guest Editors]	0
Call for Nominations: IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Associate Editors [Society News]	0
Summarizing the October 2020 Terminology Harmonization Meeting [Standards]	0
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Three New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Standards Working Groups on Surgical Robotics and Electric Vehicle Charging Robots [Standards]	0
RAM Calendar - for March 2023 issue [Calendar]	0
Development of Fault Detection Systems: The Hadoop Ecosystem Implementation	0
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Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	0
Online Tuning of Control Parameters for Off-Road Mobile Robots: Novel Deterministic and Neural Network-Based Approaches	0
Call for Students Participating in IEEE Robotic Standardization Efforts (SPIRSE) [Society News]	0
IEEE Feedback	0
2020, 2021, and Beyond [President's Message]	0
RAS Welcomes 17 New Chapters [Society News]	0
IEEE Feedback	0
2022 RAS Society Awards: Call for Nominations	0
The Art of Wine and Its Harvesting Methods [Student’s Corner]	0
Standards Update: Robot Task Representation Standard and User Guide Development [Standards]	0
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on Robot Ethics Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in the Development and Application of Robotics and Automation	0
Best Practices: Becoming a Leader Through Conference Organization [Women in Engineering]	0
IEEE Moving	0
Welcome to Seven New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters [Society News]	0
IEEE RAS Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	0
RoboParty: 20 Editions Building Robots and Motivating Youngsters for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Subjects [Competitions]	0
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ICRA @ 40: A Special Event to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ICRA and RAS [Society News]	0
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2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Award Recipients Announced [Society News]	0
Wolfram Burgard to Become Next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Robotics: Kevin Lynch to Retire as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Robotics This July [Society News]	0
How ICRA 2020 Went From Paris to the Cloud [Society News]	0
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A Nitinol-Embedded Wearable Soft Robotic Gripper for Deep-Sea Manipulation: A Wearable Device for Deep-Sea Delicate Operation	0
Radar-Based Fall Detection: A Survey [Survey]	0
IEEE Feedback	0
An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling: Comfort and Human–Robot Interactions	0
IEEE RAS SOCIETY AWARDS Call for Nominations	0
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Congratulations to Daniela Rus, Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award [Society News]	0
Greetings From the New Student Activities Committee Executive Team [Student’s Corner]	0
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The 40th International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023: Embracing the Future: Making Robots for Humans [Conference Highlights]	0
RAM Calendar - for September 2023 issue [Calendar]	0
2024 IERA Award: Realtime Robotics Awarded for Optimization Tool [Industry Activities]	0
RoboCup 2021 Worldwide: A Successful Robotics Competition During a Pandemic [Competitions]	0
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2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Publications Best Paper Award Recipients Announced [Society News]	0
2021 RAS Adcom Election	0
IEEE RAS Society Awards call for nominations	0
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RAS New Quadruped Robot Challenges: Pushing the Boundaries of Robotics Research and Development [Competitions]	0
Ruminations on CES, Robotics, and the Future [President’s Message]	0