Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Mechatronics and Robotics
Actuator design, robotic mechanisms and design, robot kinematics and dynamics
Agile Manufacturing
Agriculture, construction, industrial automation, manufacturing process
Automation and control systems, middleware
Biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, welfare robotics and mechatronics
Cellular Manufacturing
Concurrent Engineering
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Distributed Control Systems
Flexible Manufacturing Systems
FMS Artificial Intelligence
Humanoid robots, service robots
Human-robot interaction, semi-autonomous systems, telerobotics
Information Technology Applied to
Knowledge Based Systems
Lean Manufacturing Logistics
Machine Vision
Management of Technology
Manufacturing
Mining robotics
Mobile robotics
Modeling and Simulation Scheduling
Nano/micro systems and applications, biological and medical applications
Navigation, localization, manipulation
Operations Management
Rapid Prototype
Rescue, hazardous environments
Robot intelligence and learning
Robot vision and audition
Robots and Automation
Sensor design, sensor fusion, sensor networks
Sensor development
Sensors and Applications
Sustainability, energy conservation, ecology 
Universal design and services, ubiquitous robots and devices