Welcome to the Center for Innovative Robotics! This is actually our temporary site that is intended to really catalyze the community into providing us with feedback before we make final commitments on the final design of CIR’s role and functionality. I am writing this from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, where we are running the Saturday session on robotics. The day begins with a keynote by Helen Greiner of iRobot, followed by three panel discussions with leading roboticists from industry, government, academia and the entrepreneurial world. We will show off the Personal Exploration Rover, several of Acroname’s robots, ten Roombas acting en masse, and several Telepresence Robot Kit Qwerkbots. This convention represents two major potential users of CIR in the future: students and teachers. We are aiming high with CIR, and as we start to crystallize our ideas of what services it ought to provide, based on feedback, we will tell you about that right here. Please do go to the “Tell us” tab and give us your ideas about how you would like to see us help you and your fellow roboticists out. -illah