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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Volunteers invited for advancing robotics globally</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>CLAWAR</b> is a UK registered charity since 2012 with the mission for the advancement of robotics for the public benefit (see
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://clawar.org/" target="_blank" id="OWAf5eb9885-c13a-3e78-bead-8e52949d6821" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">https://clawar.org/</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">).
We have been working with researchers, companies and international robot regulation organisations to address bottlenecks to assist the development of robots and robot systems to meet the needs of</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">society globally. Our main activities have been the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">1. International CLAWAR annual conference series on latest technology research and development. CLAWAR’2024 is the 28 th issue in the series and is planned to be held in
Germany in September 2024 (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://clawar.org/clawar24/" target="_blank" id="OWAbfbceef5-d0ed-b952-1e88-60297c5198f1" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">https://clawar.org/clawar24/</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">2. International annual conference series on Robot ethics and Standards. ICRES 2024 is the 9 th issue in the series and is planned to be held in Japan in July 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">(</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://clawar.org/icres24/" target="_blank" id="OWA718ca199-88b9-8204-a14a-a786879505d1" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">https://clawar.org/icres24/</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">).
These series of conferences are aimed at assisting in the development of ethically acceptable robot systems which are accessible by all.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">3. ISO/IEC robot regulation for formulating international standards for robot safety, robot performance and inter-operability for medical and non-medical robot sectors. The
main focus currently is contributing to standardisation projects in ISO TC299 (Robotics), IEC TC62 (Medical equipment, software and systems), ISO TC199 (Safety of Machinery).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about robotics and wish to contribute to the efforts for development of robotics for all globally. Applications are invited
from individuals who wish to join our team. There are no pre-requisites for applicants as robotics are being developed for virtually all sectors of society and we will be planning our activities to meet the emerging challenges and how they should be overcome
in different countries and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">globally.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please send your CV to the CLAWAR chair (Professor Osman Tokhi (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="mailto:motokhi@clawar.org" id="OWA26964092-aa1c-78e0-9cf5-ed43f570753a" class="OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="3" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">motokhi@clawar.org</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">)
stating why you are interested to volunteer to become a CLAWAR ambassador for robotics globally.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>The CLAWAR Association</b></span></p>
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