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Figure 1. Rainer Bischoff receives the IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award.

JTCF Novel Technology Paper
Award for Amusement Culture
This award recognizes practical technology contributing to toys, toy models, and
amusement culture. Sponsored by the
Japan Toy Culture Foundation (JTCF).
This award went to
● "Momentum-Driven Single-Actuated Swimming Robot," Gilad Refael
and Amir Degani.
RoboCup Best Paper Award
This award was sponsored by the RoboCup Federation. This award went to
● "POMDP to the Rescue: Boosting Performance for RoboCup Rescue," Kegui
Wu, Wee Sun Lee, and David Hsu.

2015 Guido Dorso Award
Presented to Bruno Siciliano,
RAS Past President
The 36th edition of the Guido Dorso
Award was presented to Bruno Siciliano on 15 October 2015 in a ceremony
held at the Senate of the Republic in
Rome by the Rector of the University
of Naples Federico II (Figure 2). Every
year, the Guido Dorso Award recognizes Fellows who have contributed
their work to support the needs of development and progress of Southern
Italy. Siciliano received the award for
the section "University." Distinguished fellows from the political,
economic, and cultural world received

Figure 2. Bruno Siciliano accepts the 2015 Guido Dorso Award.

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the award in the past years, including
two Nobel prizes.
Bruno Siciliano is a 56-year-old Professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II and
coordinator of the Automation Engineering Program. He is the scientific
director of PRISMA Lab, the Laboratory of Projects for Industrial and Service Robotics, Mechatronics, and
Automation in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology.
Prof. Siciliano coordinates a staff of
25 researchers, including junior faculty, fellows, graduate students, and
postdocs from four continents. His
group has participated in 15 projects
financed by the European Union for a
total funding of 8.5 million euro in the
last eight years. He has held representative positions within professional
societies, including president of the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) for 2008-2009.
Prof. Siciliano is the only European
to be a Fellow of the three most
important scientific associations in the
sector of automation (IEEE, The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and International Federation for
Automatic Control) and has received
numerous awards at national and
international levels.
His research interests are in force control, visual control, bimanual manipulation, aerial robotics, coexistence between
robots and humans, and service robotics.
He has published 300 articles in journals
and conference papers and seven books
on robotics; his book Robotics: Modelling,
Planning, and Control is one of the most
adopted texts in universities around the
world and has been translated into Italian, Chinese, and Greek. He is coeditor
of Springer Handbook of Robotics, which
was awarded the highest award for
scientific publishing: 2008 AAP
PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical
Sciences and Mathematics, and Award
for Engineering and Technology. He has
held 20 plenary lectures at international conferences and more than
100 invited seminars at foreign institutions, and has carried out an intense publishing activity.

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