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ICR-2021 – CALL FOR PAPERS
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6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR-2021)
September 27-30, 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia
Web: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2021

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany).

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Assistive robots
Child-robot interaction
Collaborative robotics
Educational robotics
Human-robot interaction
Medical robotics
Robotic mobility systems
Robots at home
Robot control and communication
Social robotics
Safety robot behavior

MAIN CONFERENCE
ICR-2021 is a satellite event of the 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM-2021: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-12 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM & ICR 2021 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2021

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM & ICR Proceedings will be published by Springer as separate books in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. Both Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2021.

IMPORTANT DATES (extended !)
June 14, 2021 ........... Submission of full papers (final date)
July 14, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection
July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers
July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration
Sept 27-30, 2021 ........ Conference dates

ICR-2021 CO-CHAIRS
Andrey Ronzhin, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Roman Meshcheryakov, ICS RAS, Moscow, Russia
Gerhard Rigoll, TUM, Munich, Germany

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
specom@iias.spb.su or ronzhin@iias.spb.su
ICR web: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2021
SPECOM web: www.specom.nw.ru