Plan of Special Issues
| Publication Plan | Theme Guest Editor(s) Name(s) |
| Vol. 2, No. 2 /2000 | Force Control of Advanced Robotic Systems Guest Editors: Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Luigi Villani (Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) |
| Vol. 2, No. 4 /2000 | Biorobotics and Medical Robotics Guest Editor: Kazuo Kiguchi (Saga University) |
| Vol. 3, No. 3 /2001 | Robotics in Space Guest Editor: Prof. Dragomir N. Nenchev (Hirosaki University) |
| Vol. 4, No. 2 /2002 | Neural Control in Robotics Guest Editor: Prof. Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea) |
| Vol. 4, No. 4 /2002 | Underactuated Robots Guest Editor: Prof. Keigo Watanabe (Saga University) |
| Vol. 5. No. 3 or 4/2003 | Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles Guest Editor: Prof. Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal) |
| Vol. 7. No. 1 or 2/2005 | Mobile Robots and Autonomous Vehicles Guest Editor: Prof. Lanka Udawatta (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) |