EURON was influential in encouraging Springer to set up a new book series devoted to robotics, entitled "Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics - STAR".

The Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) publish new developments and advances in the fields of robotics research, rapidly and informally but with a high quality. The intent is to cover all the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects of robotics, embedded in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control, and Life Sciences, as well as the methodologies behind them. Within the scope of the series are monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops, as well as selected PhD theses.

It must be mentioned that the series is not limited to European authors, though most of the volumes are from Europe so far.

Current titles in the series include vol 22:EUROS 2006, edited by H.I. Christensen, and vol 44 EUROS 2008, edited by H. Bruyninckx, L. Preucil, and M. Kulich.

We hope that you will get involved in many of EURON's activities and encourage others to do so as well.

Attending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. The Annual Meetings are the major instrument for this purpose.

A lot of things are happening all the time in the European robotics community: conferences and workshops are being organised, projects are starting, job offers are announced, etc. The EURON mailing list is the place-to-be for all your communications around these topics.