Dear Member of RAS,

The annual meeting of the Robotics and Automation Society Joint New Zealand Chapter will be co-located with 2017 IEEE 24^th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice Conference (M2VIP2017) at Massey University (Albany, Auckland) on the 21^st of November 2017. The M2VIP2017 conference is technically sponsored by our chapter.

Registration for the Chapter’s annual meeting is free, while you may consider to contribute to M2VIP2017 as well, to maximise the impact of their trip to Auckland’s North Shore. International guests are most welcome to attend.

Details for M2VIP2017 can be found at:

http://www.m2vip-conference.org/

A schedule for the Robotics and Automation Society NZ Joint Chapter meeting will be circulated closer to the event date, but please mark it in your calendars. At the moment we have secured a few speakers from local industries and overseas. We are still looking for more speakers (for a 15 minute talk) from the RAS members.

To register your interest for either talk or attendance of the RAS Joint NZ Chapter Meeting, please RSVP to the secretary Steven Dirven s.dirven@massey.ac.nz, including your name, institution, department and contact details.

You are invited to circulate this invitation throughout your academic and industrial networks.

We look forward to seeing you in Auckland.

Kind regards,

Organising Committee