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This Symposium marked the first decade of the annual symposia held in different countries each time, since the first idea to hold such a gathering of construction robotics researchers and practitioners alike materialised in summer 1984 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. According to most participants of this year's Symposium this one was one of the best, both in terms of its technical content and the overall organisation of conference activities. The approximate number of registered participants was 230, with a good mix of construction robotics academics, engineers and executives from construction firms, as well as trade union and government officials.
Eighteen technical sessions were held over a three day period, featuring new state-of-the-art findings on robotic systems design and technical performance issues, automated construction planning, as well as economics and management of automation in construction. In total, 53 papers were presented from the USA, Japan, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. It was pleasing to note that the number of types of different robotics applications in the construction industry worldwide has been steadily increasing.
As in the previous years, the majority of papers describing specific applications of robotics on construction sites were presented by authors from Japan.
An interesting fact to report on is that one of the Best Paper Awards presented at this Symposium went to Dr Khalid Taher and his co-authors from Saudi Arabia for the paper titled "Robotics and Automation in the Construction of the Sliding Domes of King Fahds Extension of the Prophet's Holy Mosque in Madinah." Welcome to the new world of automation in the construction of Houses of Worship!
Don't miss your opportunity to purchase the Symposium proceedings if you haven't already done so. They are available from the Construction Industry Institute in Austin, Texas, and from Elsevier Science Publishers in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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