The 6th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) will be held, together with the the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), under the official umbrella of the inaugural IEEE conferences on CIS & RAM, from Saturday to Monday, November 12-15, 2013 at Manila, Philippines.

The goal of the RAM 2013 is to bring together experts from the field of robotics, automation and mechatronics to discuss on the state-of-the-art and to present new research findings and perspectives of future developments with respect to the conference themes. The conference welcomes paper submissions from academics, researchers, engineers, and students worldwide in but not limited to the following areas:

Robotics and Automation in Unstructured Environment, Personal and Service Robotics, Underwater Robotics, Medical Robots and Systems, Social Robotics, Robotics and Automation Applications, Sensor Design, Integration, and Fusion, Computer and Robot Vision, Human-Robot Interfaces, Haptics, Teleoperation, Tele-robotics, Network Robotics, Micro/Nano, Distributed, Cellular, and Multi-robot Systems, Biologically-Inspired Robots and Systems, Sensor Based Robotics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Modeling, Planning and Control, Kinematics, Mechanics, and Mechanism Design, Legged Robots, Wheeled Mobile Robots, Dynamics, Motion Control, Force/Impedance Control, Architecture and Programming, Methodologies for Robotics and Automation, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Petri Nets, Virtual Reality, Manufacturing System Architecture, Design, and Performance Evaluation, Computer Aided Production Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Total Quality Management, Maintenance, and Diagnostics, etc.