  The 5th edition of the International Conference on Cloud and Robotics (ICCR
2018 - http://cloudrobotics.info) will be held on November 12-14 2018 in Paris
and Saint-Quentin, France. The conference is a co-event with GDR ALROB and the
industry exposition Robonumerique (http://www.robonumerique.fr).
  The domain of cloud robotics aims to converge robots with computation,
storage and communication resources provided by the cloud. The cloud may
complement robotic resources in several ways, including crowd-sourcing
knowledge databases, context information, computational offloading or
data-intensive information processing for artificial intelligence. Today, the
paradigms of cloud/fog/edge computing propose software architecture solutions
for robots to share computations or offload them to ambiant and networked
resources. Yet, combining distant computations with the real time constraints
of robotics is very challenging. As the challenges in this domain are
multi-disciplinary and similar in other research areas, Cloud Robotics aims at
building bridges among experts from academia and industry working in different
fields, such as robotics, cyber-physical systems, automotive, aerospace,
machine learning, artificial intelligence, software architecture, big data
analytics, Internet-of-Things, networked control and distributed cloud systems.
