Robot Manipulators New Achievements

Robot manipulators are developing as industrial robots instead of human workers. Recently, the application fields of robot manipulators are increasing such as Da Vinci as a medical robot, ASIMO as a humanoid robot and so on. There are many research topics with respect to robot manipulators, e.g. motion planning, cooperation with a human, and fusion with external sensors like vision, haptic and force, etc. Moreover, these include both technical problems in the industry and theoretical problems in the academic fields. In this book we have collected the latest research issues from around the world. Thus, we believe that this book is useful and joyful for readers. We would like to thank all authors for their interesting contributions and the reviewers for their devoted works.