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The IAARC - sponsored 22nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2005) is slated for September 11-14, 2005 in Ferrara, Italy.
For the first time ISARC is slated in Italy, that takes a particular meaning and introduces a challenge in the successful series of ISARC symposia, hoping that ISARC 05 will become the seem of new ideas.

The hard automation and robotics for construction are born and grown in industrial countries with considerable renewal of real estate, but many countries have to maintain large, important, old and same time artistic estate, buildings, bridges, roads, monuments and environment. Knowledge, technologies and techniques have been developed to maintain these important estate and heritage and to joint them with new constructions and quality of life, so everybody hope that new technologies, robotics, IT are able to help and reduce the cost of this important aim.

Ferrara, small but important City of Art, first example of modern urban planning, enclosed inside its historic walls, seems to be the ideal place and natural "conference hall" to discuss about the traditional and new topics of ISARC.

The Organizing Committee