The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO) will be held in Hong Kong SAR - Asia's World City, and Macau SAR - Las Vegas of the Orient. ROBIO will again bring together leading scholars and researchers worldwide to disseminate their most recent and advanced findings to bridge the frontier of knowledge between robotics and biomimetics - from meter scale down to nanometer scale. Major topics covered by ROBIO include the following areas:

l Robotics (humanoids, biomimicing robots/systems, flying robots, medical robots, rescue robots, manipulators, path planning, tele-operation, vision, sensing, tracking, control, fuzzy/neural net/genetic algorithms.etc)

l Advanced Actuation Materials (artificial muscles, electroactive polymer actuators, electrostrictive polymer actuators, conjugated polymer actuators, ionic conducting polymer actuators, smart materials.etc)

l Micro/Nano Technology (MEMS/Nano fabrication, sensors, and actuators, micro/nano robotics, assembly, and manipulation, AFM/SPM based manipulation, micro/nano fluidics, nanotube/nanowire/DNA based sensors, .etc)

l Cellular Biomimetics (molecular motors, DNA/protein manipulation and detection, molecular and cellular imaging, micro/nano scale energy conversion and storage, DNA/molecular circuits, molecular self-assembly, bio-informatics.etc)

GETI's Louis Ross will give an invited talk "Global Investment Activities in Robotics, Nanotechnology, and Energy"

For more information visit www.robio.org