Robotics 2010 Current and Future Challenges

Without doubt, robotics has made an incredible progress over the last decades. The vision of developing, designing and creating technical systems that help humans to achieve hard and complex tasks, intelligently has led to an incredible variety of solutions. There are barely technical fields that could exhibit more interdisciplinary interconnections like robotics. This fact is generated by the highly complex challenges imposed by robotic systems, especially the requirement on intelligent and autonomous operation.