I. Introduction and Overview.- State of the Art and Predictions for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.- Robotics.- II. Sensors, Manipulators, and Pattern Recognition.- Methods for Choosing Actuators and Transmission Components for High Performance Manipulators.- Tactile Sensing for Robots.- Automatic Recognition of Low Resolution Tactile Sensing Data Using Rapid Transformation.- On Patterns and Pattern Recognition.- Segmentation of Digital Arcs.- III. Languages, Software and Cad.- Automatic Synthesis of Robot Programs from CAD Specifications.- Languages for Programming Robots.- CAD, Robot Programming and Ada.- New Directions in Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Systems.- IV. Vision, Object Representation, Shape and Solid Modeling.- Object Representation, Identification, and Positioning from Range Data.- Representing Shape.- Two Multi-Processor Systems for Low-Level Real-Time Vision.- Tracking Robot Motion in Three-Dimensional Space: A Laser Scanning Approach.- V. Systems, Control and Mobility.- Nonlinear Control with Hierarchy for Coordinated Operation of Robots.- Machines That Walk.- Mobile Robots.- Sensor Programming - A New Way for Teaching a Robot Paths and Sensory Patterns Simultaneously.- Application of Variable Structure Systems Theory in Manipulator Control.- Robotic Mechanics and Animal Morphology.- VI. Applications.- Industrial.- Applications and Requirements for Industrial Robots.- Applications of Industrial Robots.- Applications of Industrial Robots - Technical and Economical Constraints.- Robot Applications Within General Motors.- The IBM European Robotic Applications Laboratory.- The Organizational Impacts of Computer Based Manufacturing.- Recovering from Failures: A New Challenge for Industrial Robots.- Medical.- to Robotics in Medicine.- Expert Systems and the Concept of Knowledge.- Robotics at a Biomedical Cyclotron Facility.- Medical Laboratory Automation Using Robotics.- The Application of Robotics to the Patient with High Spinal Cord Injury.- VII. The future.- Industrial Robots: Present and Future.- Social Implications of Automation.- List of Speakers.- List of Participants.