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With the development of advanced manufacturing technology, robotic intelligentized welding, and intelligentized welding manufacturing have been key technologies in the manufacturing industry and present the development trends. Actually, nowadays, nearly half of the industry robots in service are welding robots. Teaching play-back robots in service, however, cannot meet the standards of quality, precision and efficiency of the high tech welding products due to the assembling error, the changes on welding environment and condition, the complexity of welding dynamics, the welding deformation and so on. Therefore, it is quite urgent to conduct the research works on the intelligentized robotic welding technology and then develop the new generation of the Intelligentized welding robots and systems which can preliminarily imitate the human welders’ behavior.

It is under such a background that 2018 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA’2018) and the 12th Chinese Conference on Robotic Welding (CCRW’2018) are organized. Particularly, RWIA ‘2018 will be the 5th conference of the successive RWIA conferences which was first held in Shanghai, once four years from 2002.