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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dear colleague,</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2021 - IEEE International Conference</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held at Santa Maria da</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Feira, Portugal, on April 28-29, 2020.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The conference is co-located with ROBOTICA 2021 - The Portuguese Robotics Open,</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and is promoted by the University of Aveiro,</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">University of Coimbra, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and the Portuguese</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Robotics Society.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The conference is planned to take place in a hybrid mode, allowing remote</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">participation along with physical presence.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">== Conference Scope ==</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well established IEEE conference</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is nowadays a truly</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">international forum attracting worldwide quality research papers.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions,</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">at relevant indexed journals.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">== Invited Speakers ==</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Miguel Àngel Sotelo, University of Alacalá de Henares, Spain</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">== Important Dates ==</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submission Feb 15, 2021</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Camera Ready Mar 29, 2021</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Registration Apr 9, 2021</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Conference Apr 28-29, 2021</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">== Conference Topics ==</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia to</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Contributions from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Agricultural Robotics</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Artificial Intelligence</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Entertainment Robots</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Underwater Robotics</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">== Paper Submission ==</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Six pages in the standard IEEE format: </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
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style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full papers should</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the easychair.org platform:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021"
style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Reviewing for ICARSC 2021 will be </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">*double blind*</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> so authors must remove their</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">disclose their identity. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">one of the authors must register at the Conference and present the paper. Failure</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">to meet this requirement will imply removing the paper from the online version</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">of the proceedings. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A selection of the presented papers will be invited to propose extended versions</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">for a special issue of a Journal as in previous editions.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Besides the conference best paper award, there will also be a best paper award</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">promoted by the Industrial Robot Journal that can be further extended for</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">publication in the journal.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">See you in Santa Maria da Feira!</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vitor Santos, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pedro Neto, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ana Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Co-chairs of ICARSC 2021)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Please check further details at</span><a
href="https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/"
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