Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 90, September 2026
Editorial
Featured Articles
- Will Robots Replace Humans?, by Ferat Sahin
- Trustworthy Autonomous Wheelchairs in Practice: Research Highlights from REXASI-PRO, by Francesco Flammini
Academic Corner
Industry Corner
Student Corner
- Interview with Ms. Aishwarya Fursule from Wichita State University, USA
- SMCS Back-to-School Student Bingo
- This Month in History: Star Trek
- Summer School Spotlight – 2026 IEEE Summer School on Telerobotics and Cyborg Technologies: A Student’s Perspective
- Summer School Spotlight – 2026 IEEE Summer School on Telerobotics and Cyborg Technologies: Lecture Summary
Society News
- About the Society
- Board of Governors
- Welcome to new SMC Student Branch Chapters from (1) Nandha Engineering College (Madras), (2) Canara Engineering College (Bangalore), (3) Nutan Maharashtra Institute of Engineering and Technology (Maharashtra), (4) Vaagdevi College of Engineering (Hyderabad), and (5) Universidade Federal do Reconcavo da Bahia (Brazil).
- Welcome to new SMCS Chapters in the (1) Madhya Pradesh, (2) Hyderabad (India), and (3) Nanjing (China) Sections.
- Please join us in congratulating SMCS member and VP Membership and Student Activities, Prof. Mariagrazia Dotoli on being appointed as a Full Member of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology. Congratulations!
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Zhi Wei’s lecture at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Joe Qin’s lecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Daoyi Dong’s lecture at Obuda University, Hungary
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Yo-Ping Huang’s lecture at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Dr. Ming Hou’s lecture at the University of Cambridge, UK
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. MengChu Zhou’s lecture at Portsmouth Chapter
- Report on the 2026 IEEE Summer School on Telerobotics and Cyborg Technologies at RIT, USA
- Report on the Singapore Robotics and Intelligent Systems Symposium (SRISS 2026), an IEEE SMCS Initiative Grant Report
- Report on the SMCS Summer School at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria
- Report on the IEEE CIS-RAM 2026 Conference
- Report on the ICMLC 2026 Conference and a Look Ahead to ICMLC 2027 in Osaka
- Report on the IEEE SMCS Hyderabad Section Chapter Inauguration Ceremony
- MATHisFUN, a report on a SMCS Collaboration and Engagement Grant for rural and indigenous communities in Melaka, Malaysia
Call for Participation and Call for Papers:
- Call for Participation, IEEE SMC 2026, October 4-7, 2026, Bellevue, WA, USA.
- Call for Participation, 1st IEEE SMC AI-Powered Collaborative Autonomy (AICA) Challenge at SMC 2026.
- Call for Participation, BR41N.IO Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Hackathon at SMC 2026.
- Call for Participation, 3rd IEEE Conference on Telepresence (November 9-13, 2026), Bristol, UK.
Society Publications Table of Contents:
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Call for Papers for Special Issues:
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Submission Guidelines
This eNewsletter aims to serve SMC society members by providing a useful platform for information exchange. News is published on an ongoing basis and can be accessed free of charge on the Society’s website.
The eNewsletter invites submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Featured Articles: research ideas, discussions on emerging areas, debatable issues
- Research Activities: information about a research group and its activities
- Meeting Reports: information about conferences and workshops
- Call for papers/participants: books, special issues, conferences, workshops
- Technical Committees: TC activities
- Local Chapters: chapter activities
- Research Opportunities: job openings, funding opportunities
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