Keynote Lectures -- Humanoid Robotics, Culture and Society of Japan -- The Human Frontier: Robotics New Quest and Challenge -- Standardization: A Logical Step in Sustained Space Exploration -- Robot design -- Design and Singularity Criteria of Parallel Manipulators -- L-legs for the Design of Mini and Micro Parallel Compliant Mechanisms -- A singularity free parallel robotic mechanism for aiming antennas and cameras -- Virtual Prototyping of a New Parallel Robot for Milling -- A New Approach for the evaluation of kinematic and static performances of a family of 3-UPU translational manipulators -- Geometric Configuration in Robot Kinematic Design -- Mechanism Performance -- Improvement of Positioning Accuracy of PAMINSA (Parallel Manipulator of the I.N.S.A.) -- The Impact of Friction on the Dynamics of Parallel Robotic Manipulators -- Dynamics Aspects of Parallel Anthropomorphic Robots -- Workspace Comparison of Kinematically Redundant Planar Parallel Manipulators -- Dexterity Analysis of Planar Parallel Manipulators -- Stiffness experimental monitoring for WL-16RII Biped Locomotor during walking -- Estimation of Leg Stiffness Parameters of a 6DOF Parallel Mechanism -- Invariant Error Dynamics Controller for a 6-dof Electrohydraulic Stewart Platform -- Motion Planning and Synthesis -- Hyperbolic-linear, Extended Jacobian Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for Doubly Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators -- Local Variation Method to Determine Cheap Path for Nonholonomic Systems -- Nonlinearity detection and reduction based on unnormalized quasi-velocities -- Motion Planning for Collision Avoidance via Cylindrical Models of Rigid Bodies -- On the Dynamic Stability of Off-Road Vehicles -- Sub-Optimal Motion Planner of Mobile Manipulators in Generalized Point-to-Point Task With Stability Constraint -- A Decoupled Approach to Optimal Time Energy Trajectory Planning of Parallel Kinematic Machines -- Reliable and Adjustable Biped Gait Generation for Slopes Using a GA Optimized Fourier Series Formulation -- A Simplified Method for Generating 3D Gait Using Optimal Sagittal Gait -- Control Methods and Systems -- The Largest Feedback-Linearizable Subsystem of a Class of Wheeled Robots Moving on an Inclined Plane -- Leg Thrust Control for Stabilization of Dynamic Gaits in a Quadruped Robot -- Vehicle Dynamics of Redundant Mobile Robots with Powered Caster Wheels -- Matrix-based Supervisory Controller of Transition-Function Specified Robot Controllers -- Control Architecture for Sensor-Based Two-Handed Manipulation -- Humanoids -- The mechanical improvements of the anthropomorphic flutist robot WF-4RII to increas the sound clarity and to enhance the interactivity with humans -- Mechanical Design of Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot WE-4RII -- The Mechatronic Design of a Human-like Robot Head -- Human Equilibrium Control Principles Implemented into a Biped Humanoid Robot -- Development of a New Humanoid Robot to Realize Various Walking Pattern Using Waist Motions -- From the Human Hand to a Humanoid Hand: Biologically-Inspired Approach for the Development of RoboCasa Hand #1 -- Biology and Robotics — Specialized Tools and Methods -- Towards Realistic Surgical Simulation: Biomechanics of Needle Insertion into the Brain -- Robotic System for Femoral & Tibial Osteotomies Assistance -- WL-16RII: Prototype of Biped Walking Wheelchair -- Prosthesis Design by Robotic Approaches Part 1: Metabolical Cost -- Prosthesis Design by Robotic Approaches Part 2: Optimization Approach -- Innovative technologies in robotics -- Sound Source Detection System for Control of an Autonomous Mobile Robot, a Behaviour-Based Approach -- Development and Control of Wheeled Vehicle that Balances on a Rolling Basketball -- Durability of Large-Deflective Hinges made of Blend Polypropylene used for Molded Pantograph Mechanisms -- Mobile Robots Based on Magnetizable Elastic Elements and Ferrofluids -- A Flexure-Based Electromagnetic Linear Actuator for Nano-Positioning -- An Infrared Location System for Relative Pose Estimation of Robots -- Design and Control of the Ball Wheel Drive Mechanism for a Robust Omnidirectional Wheeled Mobile Platform -- Space Robotics -- Results and Verification of Spacecraft Docking Emulation using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation -- On Dynamic Analysis and Control of a Novel Orbital Debris Disposer -- Trajectory Generation for Satellite Capture Using a Redundant Manipulator -- Innovative methods of evaluation in space robotics and surgical robotics design -- Vision and navigation -- Visual Target Detection in Unstructured Environments — A Novel Technique for Robotic Navigation -- Hand image interpretation based on double active contour tracking -- Mobile robot localization using laser range scanner and omnicamera -- Navigation of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle - Gate Recognition and Crossing.