This volume contains the accepted papers presented during the International Conference on
Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT Conference 2008 held in Heidelberg Germany May
22 24 2008. The EUROBOT C- ference 2008 was accompanied by the international amateur robotics
contest EUROBOTopen ?nal edition 2008. The success of both events convinced the EUROBOT
Association Executive Committee of the conference s value. A fundamental aspect of EUROBOT is
the promotion of science and te- nology among young students and researchers. Every year a new
theme for the roboticcupispublished.Thus participantsarerequiredtobuildcompletelynew robots
each year. Thethemefor2008was MissiontoMars. Thisresultedininterestingrobots as well as
interesting papers for the conference. Posters about all competing robots were presented by the
teams. There were 54 teams from 26 di?erent countries participating with their robots. In
addition to the paper and poster presentations there were three invited talks: Atsuo Takanishi
Waseda University Japan whose talk was about - manoid Robotics and Its Applications . Oussama
Khatib Stanford University USA gave a talk about Human- Centered Robotics .
Vice-presidentofEUROBOTAssociationJacquesBallyandSecretaryDavid Obdrzalek informed the
attendees about EUROBOT in general. The main program consisted of 33 selected regular papers
some of which are published in this Springer CCIS series. The selected papers were carefully
reviewed by at least three Program Committee members and the ?nal decision was made by the
Session Chairs.
