Application of Visual Pattern Recognition to Robotics and Automation

The first IEEE-IFR joint forum on Innovation andEntrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation tookplace on 10 April 2005 in Barcelona, Spain. The fol-lowing article was presented at the forum as one ofthe three nominees selected for the Innovation andEntrepreneurship in Robotics and AutomationAward. For further information, please visithttp://teamster.usc.edu/∼iera05/index.htm. Hadi Moradi