Taipei, Taiwan. The ninth WCICA offers a variety of technical sessions, workshops and tutorials on various control and automation applications. Keynote presentations include "Towards General-Purpose Simple Hands," presented by Professor Matthew T. Mason of The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, "Of Humans and Robots," by Professor Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, France, "Control of Energy and Steering in Electric Hybrid Vehicles," by Professor Xu Yangsheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and "Wireless Sensing and Power Transmission," by Professor Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo. Panel discussions include topics on Intelligent Control and Robotics and Intelligent Automation.