First published in 1986, the International Journal of Robotics and Automation was one of the inaugural publications in the field of robotics. The scope of this journal is broad and multidisciplinary. It covers contemporary developments in theory, design, and applications focused on all areas of robotics and automation systems, including new methods of machine learning, biologically inspired evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy and neural networks in robotics and automation systems, computer vision, autonomous robots, human-robot interaction, microrobotics, medical robotics, mobile robotics, biomechatronic systems, autonomous design of robotic systems, communication, signal processing, modelling, simulation, dynamics, design, control, sensory systems, speech recognition and synthesis, pattern and object recognition, image processing, automated manufacturing, safety, reliability, economics, social policies, and applications in all fields. The journal appears six times a year.