NEWS Principal Variety Analysis Our method for minimum dimensional algebraic manifold learning, which we call Principal Variety Analysis (PVA), has been accepted at CoRL 2017 and will be published soon. 09/01/2017 RLP2016 workshop accepted @ RSS 2016 The 1st International Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning will be held at RSS 2016 in Michigan, USA. 02/26/2016 Paper accepted @ CDC 2014 NUROA, an approximation of the Canny's roadmap using the Lasserre's polynomial optimization method will appear at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2014. For more details, check the preprint here. 07/20/2014 RCV 2013 proceedings published Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Robotics Challenges and Vision (RCV2013) held in conjunction with Robotics: Science and Systems in Berlin, Germany is published. 02/06/2014 Paper accepted @ SIAM CT13 Our partial characterization of minimum time trajectories for a car-like robot with one trailer has been accepted at SIAM Control and Its Applications (CT) 2013. Our analysis proves that the robot, on a time optimal path, has to follow a merging curve to straighten up its trailer after a minimum radius turn in order to be able to join a straight line motion. Robotics Challenges and Vision @ RSS 2013 We are organizing the Robotics Challenges and Vision Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems 2013 to be held in TU-Berlin, Germany. This is a workshop sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium affiliated with the Computing Research Association, who played a major role in the inception, development, and realization of the National Robotics Initiative. Submission of radical, somewhat controversial, potentially earth-shattering, revolutionary ideas to this workshop are strongly encouraged.