Venue General Chair Program Chair 1984 March 13-15 Atlanta, GA, USA John Jarvis Richard (Lou) Paul 1985 March 25-28 St. Louis, MO, USA K.S. Fu Tomás Lozano-Pérez 1986 April 7-10 San Francisco, CA, USA Antal (Tony) Bejczy Rajan Suri 1987 March 31 April 3 Raleigh, NC, USA Y.C. ‘Larry’ Ho Arthur Sanderson 1988 April 24-29 Philadelphia, PA, USA T. Pavlidis R. B. Kelley 1989 May 14-19 Scottsdale, AZ, USA George Bekey John Hollerbach 1990 May 13-18 Cincinnati, OH, USA Richard A. Volz Antti Koivo 1991 April 9-11 Sacramento, CA, USA T.C. (Steve) Hsia T. J. Tarn 1992 May 12-14 Nice, France Giuseppe Menga Georges Giralt 1993 May 2-6 Atlanta, GA, USA Wayne Book John Luh 1994 May 8-13 San Diego, CA, USA William Gruver Harry Stephanou 1995 May 21-27 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Toshio Fukuda Suguru Arimoto 1996 April 22-28 Minneapolis, MN, USA Norman Caplan C.S. George Lee 1997 April 20-25 Albuquerque, NM, USA Ray Harrigan Mo Jamshidi 1998 May 16-21 Leuven, Belgium Georges Giralt Paolo Dario 1999 May 10-15 Detroit, MI, USA Hadi Akeel Yuan F. Zheng 2000 April 24-28 San Francisco, CA, USA Brian S. Carlisle Oussama Khatib 2001 May 21-26 Seoul, Korea Wook Hyun Kwon Beom Hee Lee 2002 May 11-15 Washington, DC, USA William Hamel Anthony Maciejewski 2003 Sept 14-19 [1] Taipei, Taiwan Ren C. Luo Li-Chen Fu 2004 April 26 May 1 New Orleans, LA, USA T.J. Tarn, Toshio Fukuda Kimon Valavanis 2005 April 18-22 Barcelona, Spain Alícia Casals Rüdiger Dillmann 2006 May 15-19 Orlando, FL, USA Normal Caplan, C.S. George Lee Nikos Papanikolopoulos 2007 April 10-14 Rome, Italy Paolo Dario, Alessandro De Luca Bruno Siciliano 2008 May 19-23 Pasadena, CA, USA Maja Matarić, Paul Schenker Gaurav Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal 2009 May 12-17 Kobe, Japan Kazuhiro Kosuge Katsushi Ikeuchi 2010 May 38 Anchorage, AK, USA Wesley Snyder Vijay Kumar 2011 May 9-13 Shanghai, China Zexiang Li Yuan F. Zheng 2012 May 14-18 Minneapolis, MN, USA Nikos Papanikolopoulos Paul Oh 2013 May 6-10 Karlsruhe, Germany Rüdiger Dillmann Markus Vincze 2014 May 31 June 5 Hong Kong, China Ning Xi William Hamel 2015 May 26-30 Seattle, WA, USA Lynne Parker Nancy Amato 2016 Stockholm, Sweden Danica Kragic Antonio Bicchi 2017 Singapore I-Ming Chen Yoshihiko Nakamura