4^th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment
October 2-5 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Scope and aims of the Symposium With the beginning of the 21st century the primary applications for robotics have shifted from industrial robots to entertainment, educational and service robots. Correspondingly research is gaining a broader base by spreading from a few well resourced laboratories into many small university laboratories and even the hobbyist work bench. Primary and secondary and school students are participating in robot competitions in increasing numbers indicating the high educational and entertainment value of low cost autonomous mobile robots. Small robots are also becoming increasingly useful as a test bed for animal behavioural cognitive research and for small scale prototyping of larger systems. All this has been made possible by the exponential increase of computing power per unit cost and the shrinking sizes delivered by the microelectronics industry. Small and inexpensive entertainment and educational robots have overtaken industrial robots as the main driving force for advancing autonomous robot technology, reminiscent of how desktop computers, and now gaming computers, replaced the big mainframe computers as the drivers for the advancement of computer technology. The fourth International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots Amire 2007 builds on the success of its predecessors to provide a unique forum for autonomous robotics research and development focused on applications in research, education and entertainment.	Important dates Paper Submission deadline extended to 7 May 2007 Notification of acceptance 22 June 2007 Final manuscript 23 July 2007 Symposium 2-5 October 2007
Come and join us in fascinating Buenos Aires!
Contact: amire2007@qut.edu.au