Best Paper Awards

Dear colleagues,

The IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Telerobotics (TCT) has announced the competition for the TCT Best Paper in Telerobotics Award. This award is open to FULL papers accepted or published in IEEE RAS sponsored or co-sponsored journals listed below between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025.

RAS Sponsored Publications 

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RA-M)

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

• IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR)

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P)

Co-sponsored Publications 

• IEEE Transactions on Robot Learning

• IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics

• IEEE Journal of MicroElectroMechanical System

• IEEE Transactions on Haptics

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Eligibility

• The paper must significantly advance the technical, technological, theoretical, or application aspects of telerobotic systems.

• Papers that also show potential for significant direct impact on the field of telerobotics are eligible.
  
  

• The award is open to all authors, regardless of whether the first author is a student.
  
  

• Each first author can only nominate one paper.
  
  

• The first author must be registered with the TCT (free of charge). Here’s how to register.

• All authors must agree to the nomination. 

• Each paper is limited to one nomination.

Evaluation

Nominated papers will be assessed by independent judges.

To submit your nomination, please fill out the form at [submission link].

Extended Deadline: Monday, June 8, 2026

Thank you.

IEEE RAS TCT Team

Co-Chairs: Claudio Pacchierotti, Luigi Penco, and Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad

Vice Chairs: Jie-Ying Wu, Alireza Mohammadi, Seok-Chang Ryu, Luuk Lenders, Praveena Dewapura

Dear colleagues,

The IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Telerobotics (TCT) is excited to announce the TCT Best Paper in Telerobotics Award. This award is open to papers accepted or published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics or  IEEE Transactions on Haptics  between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024.

Eligibility:

• The paper must significantly advance the technical, technological, theoretical, or application aspects of telerobotic systems.

• The award is open to all authors, regardless of whether the first author is a student.

• Papers that also show potential for significant direct impact on the field of telerobotics are eligible.

• Each first author can only nominate one paper. 

• The first author must be registered with the TCT (free of charge). Here’s how to register.

• All authors must agree to the nomination. 

• Each paper is limited to one nomination.

Evaluation:

Nominated papers will be assessed by three independent judges.

To submit your nomination, please fill out the form at [submission link].

Deadline: Friday January 31, 2025

Thank you.

IEEE RAS TCT Team

Co-Chairs: Claudio Pacchierotti and Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad

Vice Chairs: Farokh Atashzar, Jie-Ying Wu, Alireza Mohammadi, Seok-Chang Ryu