Honorary Chairs:
George Bekey, Univ. South California, USA
Hirochika Inoue, JSPS, Japan
Friedrich Pfeiffer, Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany

General Co-Chairs:
Hirohisa Hirukawa, AIST, Japan
Shigeki Sugano, Waseda Univ., Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
C.S. George Lee, Purdue Univ., USA
Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS-CNRS, France

Publications Chair:
Minoru Asada, Osaka Univ., Japan

Publicity and Tutorials/Workshop Co-Chairs:
Tomomasa Sato, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Masayuki Inaba, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Finance Co-Chairs:
Yasushi Nakauchi, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Kazuhito Yokoi, AIST, Japan
Kensuke Harada, AIST, Japan
Shuuji Kajita, AIST, Japan

Exhibits Chair:
Takeshi Sakaguchi, AIST, Japan

Awards Committee Chair:
Rudiger Dillmann, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany

Conference Secretariat:
Kazuhito Yokoi, AIST, Japan

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