Physical Human Robot Interaction and Haptics -- Session Overview Physical Human-Robot Integration and Haptics -- A Unified Passivity Based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots -- Wave Haptics: Encoderless Virtual Stiffnesses -- Reality-Based Estimation of Needle and Soft-Tissue Interaction for Accurate Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy Simulation -- Haptic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Manipulation -- Planning -- Session Overview Planning -- POMDP Planning for Robust Robot Control -- On the Probabilistic Foundations of Probabilistic Roadmap Planning -- Humanoids -- Session Overview Humanoids -- Humanoid HRP2-DHRC for Autonomous and Interactive Behavior -- Android Science -- Mimetic Communication Theory for Humanoid Robots Interacting with Humans -- Mechanism and Design -- Session Overview Mechanisms and Design -- Design of a Compact 6-DOF Haptic Device to Use Parallel Mechanisms -- Hybrid Nanorobotic Approaches to NEMS -- Jacobian, Manipulability, Condition Number and Accuracy of Parallel Robots -- SLAM -- Session Overview Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping -- Subjective Localization with Action Respecting Embedding -- D-SLAM: Decoupled Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Robots -- A Provably Consistent Method for Imposing Sparsity in Feature-Based SLAM Information Filters -- Field Robots -- Session Overview Field Robotics -- Field D*: An Interpolation-Based Path Planner and Replanner -- Tradeoffs Between Directed and Autonomous Driving on the Mars Exploration Rovers -- Surface Mining: Main Research Issues for Autonomous Operations -- Robotic Vision -- Session Overview Robotic Vision -- Bias Reduction and Filter Convergence for Long Range Stereo -- Fusion of Stereo, Colour and Contrast -- Automatic Single-Image 3d Reconstructions of Indoor Manhattan World Scenes -- Robot Design and Control -- Session Overview Robot Design and Control -- One Is Enough! -- A Steerable, Untethered, 250 × 60 µm MEMS Mobile Micro-Robot -- Some Issues in Humanoid Robot Design -- That Which Does Not Stabilize, Will Only Make Us Stronger -- Underwater Robotics -- Session Overview Underwater Robotics -- Improved Estimation of Target Velocity Using Multiple Model Estimation and a Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Robotic Tracker of Ocean Animals -- Techniques for Deep Sea Near Bottom Survey Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle -- Advances in High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles -- Learning and Adaptive Behavior -- Session Overview Learning and Adaptive Behavior -- Using AdaBoost for Place Labeling and Topological Map Building -- Emergence, Exploration and Learning of Embodied Behavior -- Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for GPS-Based Activity Recognition -- Networked Robotics -- Session Overview Networked Robotics -- Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments -- Interfaces and Interaction -- Session Overview Interfaces and Interaction -- Haptic Communication Between Humans and Robots -- A Vestibular Interface for Natural Control of Steering in the Locomotion of Robotic Artifacts: Preliminary Experiments -- How Social Robots Will Help Us to Diagnose, Treat, and Understand Autism -- Invited Overview Talk -- Expo 2005 Robotics Project -- Robotics Science (Panel Discussion) -- Position Statement: Robotics Science.