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ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

Organizers: Aude Billard, Jorge Cham The ICRA'08 IEEE-RAS robot comics contest was an initiative sponsored by the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) .

The competition closed on Wednesday 21 st 6pm There were 13 entries

Best new word: humanotics.

Matthieu Warnier, Mathias Fontmarty, Akin Sisbot, Aurélie Clodic Xavier Broquère LAAS – CNRS, France

Most likely to make money.

Marek Michalowski CMU, USA

Best appropriate treatment of inappropriate material.

Leng-Feng Lee, New York State University, USA

The underfunded philosophers award.

Gianluca Antonelli, University of Cassino, Italy

Best depiction of senior engineers and their underwear.

Carol Reiley, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Tie: most likely to happen.

Michael Murphy, CMU, USA

Tie: most likely to happen.

OgnjenPetrovic, Santa Clara University, USA

Most art intellectual.

Cheng Long, Key Laboratory of Complex Systems

Best depiction of graduate life and use of Pengii.

Rodolf Heliot, Christine Azevedo, Pierre Wieber, INRIA, France

Most deserving of its own theme music.

Daniel Montrallo Flickinger, Alan Bowling University of Notre Dame, USA

Most inclusion of real robots Cristian Plagemann, University of Fribourg, Germany

Best semi-pro entry Kirk Valladeres, Naeem Assif Mirza, JoshuaWainer, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Best rendering of a past or present AdCom Member Pierre Dupont Boston University, USA

ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

The jury was composed of six experts in robotics and comics design. The Award to the Best Comics includes: $500.-. + 1 year-long IEEE-RAS membership.

The best comics will also be published in the IEEE-RAS magazine, with a photograph of the winning team.

ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

And the winner is …

3rd Runner Up Cristian Plagemann University of Fribourg, Germany

2 nd Runner Up Kirk Valladeres, Naeem Assif Mirza, JoshuaWainer University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

WINNER OF THE ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest Matthieu Warnier, Mathias Fontmarty, Akin Sisbot, Aurélie Clodic Xavier Broquère

LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France