IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Italian Chapter (I-RAS)

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Gianluca Antonelli – University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
“For contributions to modeling and control of underwater robots”
Timothy Barfoot – University of Toronto, Canada
“For contributions to mobile robot navigation”
Shuxiang Guo – Kagawa University, Japan
“For contributions to medical robots for minimally invasive surgery and biomimetic underwater robots”
Ayanna Howard – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
“For contributions to human-robot interaction systems”
Hadas Kress-gazit – Cornell University, USA
“For contributions to automated control synthesis and formal methods for robotics”
Jose Neira – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
“For contributions to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for robot navigation”
Claude Samson – INRIA, France
“For contributions to mobile and underactuated mechanical systems control”
Jacquelien Scherpen – University of Groningen, The Netherlands
“For contributions to nonlinear model reduction and passivity-based control”
Danwei Wang – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“For contributions to modelling, analysis, and control for constrained robots”
Junzhi Yu – Peking University, China
“For contributions to bio-inspired swimming robots”

New York Times article, "Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?" mentions RAS members, Ayanna Howard and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins,  and their commitment to ending the injustices in how their technology is often made and used.

Ayanna Howard is currently serving as Editor in Chief of the RAS ICRA Conference Editorial Board, Member of RAS Conference Activities Board, and member of the RAS Women in Engineering Committee. Howard is Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, and Founder & CTO at Zyrobotics.

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins is currently serving as a Co-Chair of RAS CARES Committee and an associate director of the Michigan Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan. Jenkins' research interests include Mobile manipulation, computer vision, interactive robot systems, and human-robot interaction.

To read the full article click here.