For the last decades service robots has achieved a phenomenon improvement gaining popularity in various areas spanning from homelife, travelling, medical to education. Efficiently combining with Internet of Things (IoT) systems, the consolidation promises revolutionizing potential with the later providing large quantity of information services over pervasive networks, enabling intelligent devices to use both local and distributed ’intelligence’ for optimized action, interaction and autonomous behaviour. For example, countries around the world are grappling with how to care for growing population of elderly people. Service robots are specifically supposed to assist elderly people, of course disables at the same time. It’s an industry that’s growing in a big way. Nonetheless, the mentioned technology is at its initial stages with eminently limited scope of embodiment lacking extensive researches and applications despite a positively predicted future of development.

Therefore, there is a demand for multidisciplinary approaches for exhaustive study to exploit the full potential of combining multi-sources communications and robotics for researchers and engineers from different related field all over the world.

The purpose of this workshop therefore emphasizes on providing a common forum for sharing ideas and experiences relating to the topic of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) on assistant robots regarding development, testing and assessment from both robotics and IoT communities. Discussion also further expands on state-of-art technologies and addressing challenges for identifying both approaches, solutions and potentials to fulfilling society’s demands that utilizes on the IoT-robotics convergence.