Organizing committee

General chair
	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Program co-chairs
Nicolas Garcia Aracil	Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Hermano Igo Krebs	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

RAS EMBS Advisory Board
George Bekey	University of Southern California, USA
Alain Berthoz	College de France, France
Emilio Bizzi	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Paolo Dario	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Blake Hannaford	University of Washington, USA
Koji Ikuta	University of Tokyo, Japan
Rolf Johansson	Lund University, Sweden
Oussama Khatib	Stanford University, USA
Deirdre Meldrum	Arizona State University, USA
Mamoru Mitsuishi	The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yoshihiko Nakamura	The University of Tokyo, Japan
Atsuo Takanishi	Waseda University, Japan
Russell Taylor	Johns Hopkins University, USA

Editors
Jaydev P. Desai	University of Maryland, USA Area: Surgical robotics
	University of Maryland, USA Area: Surgical robotics
Louis Phee	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Area: Bioinspired robotics, Biomicrosystems, Biomechatronics

Loredana Zollo	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Area: Rehabilitation/Assistive Robotics


Programme committee
Dino Accoto	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Sunil Agrawal	University of Delaware, USA
Panagiotis Artemiadis	Arizona State University, USA
Tamin Asfour	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Antonella Benvenuto	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Darwin G. Caldwell	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Domenico Campolo	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Raffaella Carloni	University of Twente, The Netherlands
Glauco Augusto de Paula Caurin	University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Jaydev P. Desai	University of Maryland, USA
Aaron Dollar	Yale University, USA
Paolo Fiorini	Università di Verona, Italy
Gregory Scott Fischer	Worchester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Domenico Formica	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Arturo Forner-Cordero	University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Roger Gassert	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Birgit Graf	Fraunhofer Institute Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Germany
Dieter Haemmerich	Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Yasuhisa Hasegawa	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Mitsuru Higashimori	Osaka University, Japan
Kazuo Kiguchi	Saga University, Japan
Venkat Krovi	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Kostas Kyriakopoulos	National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Cecilia Laschi	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Rui C. V. Loureiro	Middlesex University, UK
K. H. Low	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ken Masamune	University of Tokyo, Japan
Arianna Menciassi	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Giorgio Metta	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Sarthak Misra	University of Twente, The Netherlands
Sang-Rok Oh	Korea Institute of Technology, South Korea
Viviane Pasqui	Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mahdi Rasouli	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mohammad Rastgaar	Michigan Technological University, USA
Cameron Riviere	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michele Rucci	Boston University, USA
Vittorio Sanguineti	University of Genoa, Italy
Nabil Simaan	Vanderbilt University, USA
Metin Sitti	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jorge Solis	Waseda University
Cesare Stefanini	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Zhenglong Sun	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Frank Sup	University of Massachusetts, USA
Bram Vanderborght	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Kazuyoshi Wada	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Zheng Wang	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Robert James Webster III	Vanderbilt University
Alon Wolf	Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Su Zhao	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity co-chairs
Arturo Forner-Cordero	University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kenjii Suzuki	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Barbara Mazzolai	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Proceedings/Journal publications co-chairs
Silvestro Micera	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Jose Maria Sabater-Navarro	Universidad Miguel-Hernandez, Spain
Shigeki Sugano	Waseda University, Japan
Nitish Thakor	Johns Hopkins University, USA

Books and e-publications co-chairs
Massimiliano Zecca	Waseda University, Japan
Fabrizio Sergi	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Industrial relations and sponsorships
Robert Riener	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Takanori Shibata	AIST, Japan
Antonella Benvenuto	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Exhibitions and special events
Frank Sup	University of Massachusetts, USA
Stefano Mazzoleni	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Yoji Yamada	Nagoya University, Japan

Organized and invited sessions co-chairs
Panagiotis K. Artemiadis	Arizona State University, USA
Glauco Caurin	University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kazuyoshi Wada	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Jose Maria Sabater-Navarro	Universidad Miguel-Hernandez, Spain
Cesare Stefanini	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Tutorials and Workshops co-chairs
James L. Patton	Northwestern University, USA
Mamoru Mitsuishi	University of Tokyo, Japan
Irene Sardellitti	Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Ravi Vaidyanathan	Imperial College London, UK

Interactive & Poster Sessions co-chairs
Carlos Perez Vidal	Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Carlo Menon	Simon Frazer University, Canada
Nicola Vitiello	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Finance and registrations chair
Dino Accoto	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Student Activities co-chairs
Laura Margheri	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Tamas Haidegger	Budapest University, Hungary
Fabrizio Taffoni	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Local organizing commitee
Antonella Benvenuto (chair)	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Simona Boniello	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Emanuele Calvario	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Fabio Davide Capasso	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Flavia Salvadori	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Alessandro Zompanti	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Conference secretariat
Flavia Salvadori	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Best Paper Award Committee
Maria Chiara Carrozza (chair)	scuola superiore sant'anna di pisa
Marko Munih	University of Ljubljana
Jim Patton	Northwestern University, USA
Atsuo Takanishi	Waseda University

Best Student Paper Award Committee
Sunil Agrawal (chair)	University of Delaware
Dirk Lefeber	University of Vrije
Mamoru Mitsuishi	University of Tokyo
Vittorio Sanguineti	Università degli Studi di Genova