TAROS 2019 invites both full papers and extended abstracts. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Full papers are invited from researchers at any stage in their career but should present significant findings and advances in robotics research; more preliminary work would be better suited to extended abstract submission. Full papers (up to 12 pages in LNCS format) will be accepted for either oral presentation (single track) or poster presentation. Extended abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation only.

Contributions are sought in all areas relevant to the overall goal of the conference, including, but not limited to the following topics:

Autonomous robots
Assistive, service and personal robotics
Aerial robots (unmanned- and micro- air vehicles) space and planetary robotics
Medical robotics, robots for surgery and intelligent prosthetics
Humanoid and walking robots
Soft and flexible robots
Swarm, collective and field robotics
Modular reconfigurable robots
Human-Robot Interaction
Multimodal interfaces
Navigation, localization, map building and path planning,
Analysis of robot-environment interaction
Applications development, hardware issues, devices and techniques
Advanced sensors and actuators
Advanced materials and techniques
Autonomous vehicles
Bio-mimetic, bio-inspired and bio-hybrid robotic systems
Evolutionary, cognitive and developmental robotics
Robot communication and language
Ethical and societal issues in robotics
Robots in education, arts and entertainment
Safety, verification and validation for robotic applications
Learning and adaptation
Long-term interaction and operation
Modelling and analysis

These list of topics is not exhaustive. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, relevant contributions from other fields will also be welcome.