1. Member Activities Board (MAB) Committee Makoto Kaneko VP for MAB

2. Outline Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

3. General Tendency of IEEE membership People can easily get information through internet. The difference of registration fee between non- and member students is $15. IEEE+one society $42. ## of membership in IEEE most societies 2003 2004 2005 Why people are losing interest to be membership?

4. Membership Transition ## of membership

5. Analysis Activities in RAS local chapter are increasing. Robot Contest, WS… We still have a boom in robot in worldwide level. ex: paper submission: ICRA00 less than 1000, ICRA04:1300, 1CRA05:1700, ICRA06:1750… Why RAS is keeping the # of membership, while other societies are losing?

6. Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

7. School of Robotics Science 2005 Organizers: Yoshihiko Nakamura (The Univ. of Tokyo) Mark Cutkosky (Stanford Univ.) Main Topics Robot Design Venue: University of Tokyo Date: September 18-23, 2005

8. Harry Asada (MIT, USA) Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France) Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Tech, Japan) Hirohisa Hirukawa (AIST Tsukuba, Japan) Makoto Kaneko (Hiroshima Univ, Japan) Oussama Khatib (Stanford Univ, USA) Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ, Japan) Jean-Pierre Merlet (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) William T. Townsend (Barrett Technology Inc, USA) Instructors

11. 1 m2 m1 m Robot must stay still in this area before start. Obstacles (PET bottles) Target Pins (PET bottles) Design a robot that hits down the target pins. Hands-on

12. Results of Questionnaire (1) 1 = very good 2 = good 3 = acceptable 4 = bad

13. Results of Questionnaire (2) * Data of individual lecture is available upon request.

14. Financial Balance Income: RAS 20K, COE(Japan) 13K Expense: Travel Expense for Lectures :17K, Hand-On :2K, Place :2K, Print/Note/Communication/Secretary, Social Activities :12K,

15. Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

16. Registration for ICRA Joining RAS and IEEE at ICRA + Bundle Registration for non member student at ICRA Providing a reduced rate!

17. Go to the place where internet is available. Visit IEEE MD page. Complete the procedure for membership. Print out the receipt and bring it to the desk. ↓ Procedure of Bundle Registration for non-member student ↓ Procedure complete!

18. Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

19. $10K per year for two years. Chapters can submit proposal with up to a $1K budget for support of technical activities, e.g. mini-symposium, or mini-WS. Four New Proposals : ・ Joint CI/CS/RA Chapter, IEEE Russia (North-West) Section, St. Petersburg ・ Korean Chapter ・ Mexican Chapter ・ Italian Chapter Support for Chapter Activities

20. Agenda Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

21. Educational Committee The EdCom is organizing a special session on robotics education at ICRA06. Daniela Rus has been nominated to the educational committee.

22. Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

23. Student Activities Board Committee Chair: Surya P. N. Singh (Stanford Univ.) A voting member of the AdCom in order to input an active voice to the Society. RAS provides meaningful support for student members. Co-chairs: Agostino De Santis (Univ. of Napoli) Cory Kidd (MIT) Members: Under selection

24. Membership Transition School of Robotic Science Bundle Registration Chapter Support Educational Committee Student Activities Board Committee Two New Student Chapters

25. The chair of the RAS Student Branch Chapter at the Technological Institute of Vera Cruz, Mexico is Luis S Diaz de Leon Mendoza and the chapter advisor is Haviar Gomez. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/sb/mexico/itveracru z/english/groups/ras.html. The chair of the RAS Student Branch Chapter at the University of Santo Tomas de Aquino is Diego Jaimes, and the Chapter Advisor is Juan Manuel Calderon.