Robotics is an exciting field in engineering and natural sciences. Robotics has already made important widespread contributions and impact in industrial robots for tasks such as assembly, welding, painting, and material handling. In parallel, we have also witnessed the emergence of special robots which perform valuable jobs, in non-industrial environments such as in search and rescue, de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions. The emergence of mobile machines, such as the climbing and walking robots, for these missions in un-structured environments, has significantly broadened challenges that must be considered by robotics research.

The purpose of the 10 th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR2007) is to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world can come together to present and discuss the latest achievements, future challenges and exciting applications for mobile machines in general, and climbing and walking robots in particular. In order to benefit all participants, and also to maximize the interaction, the technical program of this conference is intentionally tailored to having relatively few parallel tracks. Each track will accommodate peer-reviewed articles dealing with theoretical, experimental and applicative works. In addition to the technical program, the conference will include several keynote speakers and a common poster session.

Important Dates

Submission of Full Papers: 30 January 2007

Paper Acceptance: 5 April 2007

Submission of Final Papers: 1 May 2007

Early Bird Registration: 15 May 2007

Preliminary Program: 1 June 2007

Conference: 16-18 July 2007

会议主页：http://www.clawar.org/clawar2007/index.htm