[AllUsers-ISR] IROS 2020 -October 25-29 - FREE Registration Info (Rates and Instructions)

[Anibal T. de Almeida]

Caros Investigadores,

Aproveitem esta oportunidade para assistir sem custos á  melhor 
conferencial mundial de robotica (presumo que poderao tambem fazer 
downloads):

*Technical talks, Plenaries and Keynotes, Competitions, and**
**the 68 Workshops and Tutorials.*

Votos de boa saúde e boa disposiçao

Anibal T. de Almeida

Director
ISR - University of Coimbra
Dep. Electrical Engineering , Polo II
3030 Coimbra, Portugal

Tel: +351-239-796-218 / 201

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Subject: 	IROS 2020 -- Updated Registration Info (Rates and Instructions)
Date: 	Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:42:23 -0700
From: 	The PaperPlaza Conference/Journal Management System 
<ras.101 at papercept.net>
Reply-To: 	Marcia O'Malley <omalleym at rice.edu>
To: 	Anibal de Almeida <adealmeida at isr.uc.pt>



Dear authors and contributors,
We are delighted to announce that registration for IROS
2020 will be free. We thank you for your patience and are
pleased with this outcome. This email contains important
instructions, and you should read to the end.

Free registration has been made possible by IROS'
Sponsoring Societies: the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ),
the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), the
Industrial Electronics Society (IES), the Society of
Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the New
Technology Foundation (NTF).
Thanks to their leadership in light of COVID-19, free
registration will lighten financial hardship, broaden
attendance, increase our community's visibility, and foster
positivity in our robotics communities.

*Free registration is extended to authors and non-authors. All will have 
access to IROS 2020 content including the**
**Technical talks, Plenaries and Keynotes, Competitions, and**
**the 68 Workshops and Tutorials.*

Refunds will be processed for those who registered on
CVENT. This includes any a-la-carte items like Workshops,
Tutorials, additional banquet tickets, etc. Please expect
your refund no later than early October.

Authors will still be responsible for extra-page charges
(if any) associated with their papers, and this portion of
paid fees will not be refunded. This should be
understandable given the added costs to handle a paper's
extra pages for both the Proceedings and publication in
IEEE XPlore.

While we cannot replace the experience of an in-person
conference, we are pleased and excited to roll out “IROS
On-Demand,” a platform that provides an intuitive and
enjoyable way to easily access IROS content anywhere,
anytime, with any device. IROS On-Demand will be released
Oct 25, 2020 and content will be available for 1-month
minimum. IROS On-Demand was designed by the Organizing
Committee (OC) in July and has received positive
beta-testing feedback. With author-supplied pre-recorded
video talks, neither authors nor attendees are burdened by
global time differences that make synchronous interactions
challenging. "Comment/Q&A" boxes within the platform will
enable asynchronous interaction and feedback. If you have already 
registered for IROS 2020 via the CVENT
system, you don't need to take any further action. We will
set up an IROS On-Demand account for you, and you will
access the system using the email with which you registered
in CVENT.

If you have NOT already registered for IROS 2020, we ask
that you use this link to register and ensure access to
IROS On-Demand:
https://www.iros2020.org/ondemand/signup After registering, you will 
receive a confirmation email
with a link to activate your account.
We hope that IROS 2020 free registration will attract new
attendees from national and industry research labs. We
also hope free registration will lower the barrier to
access for researchers, graduate, and undergraduate
students, and enable participation by K-12 students and
educators as well.

We're proud to say that no other IEEE society has made
registration entirely free for their flagship conference
(of IROS' size and scale). Making both XPlore publishing
and attendance free is historic. We hope this brings a bit
of good news to your year.

On behalf of the Organization Committee,

Marcia O'Malley (Program Chair)
Paul Oh (General Chair)
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