IEEE Robotics and Automation Award Recipients

2010 - TOSHIO FUKUDA
Professor
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan

"For leadership and pioneering contributions to Intelligent Robotic Systems and Micro and Nano Robotic Systems."

2009 - ANTAL BEJCZY
Senior Research Scientist (retired)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
California Institute of Technology (CIT)
Pasadena, CA, USA

“For leadership and sustained contributions to a broad set of innovative robotic and automation techniques applicable to space research and on Earth.”

2008 - Co-Recipients

PAUL G. BACKES
Supervisor
Mobility and Manipulation Group
and JPL Principal Technical Staff Member
Pasadena, CA, USA

and

ERIC T. BAUMGARTNER
Dean, College of Engineering
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH, USA

and

LARRY H. MATTHIES
Supervisor, Machine Vision Group
and JPL Senior Research Scientist
Pasadena, CA, USA

“For contributions to robotics enabling effective autonomous operations of science investigations under extreme conditions on the planet Mars”

2007 - GERD HIRZINGER
Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechantronics
Wessling,Germany

“For contributions in robot mechatronics, telerobotics, man-machine interface research, and space robotics”

2006 - GEORGE A. BEKEY
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

"For contributions to research and education in biologically inspired and intelligent robots."

2005 - SEIUEMON INABA
Honorary Chairman, FANUC. Ltd.
Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

"For long-standing leadership and technical contributions to the development of Numerical Control machines, industrial robots, and flexible factory automation."

2004 - JOSEPH F. ENGELBERGER
Retired, Newtown, CT

"For a lifetime of achievement in establishing and advancing the field of robotics and automation worldwide."