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Message from the LARS/SBR 2016 General and Program Chairs The 13th Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS 2016) and the 4th Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR 2016) aims to promote a comprehensive scientific meeting in the area of intelligent robotics, bringing together researchers and undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science, electrical engineering, mechatronics engineering, mechanical engineering, and related areas. LARS/SBR 2016 can be considered the most important Latin American robotics symposium. LARS/SBR 2016 was the major scientific/academic event of Robotica 2016. There were some co-located events: the 15th Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC 2016), 14th Brazilian Robotics Competition (CBR 2016—14th Competição Brasileira de Robótica), Brazilian Robotics Olympiad (OBR 2016—Olimpíada Brasileira de Robótica), Mostra Nacional de Robótica (MNR 2016), 7th Workshop of Robotics in Education (WRE 2016), and Workshop on Thesis and Dissertations (WTDR 2016). These events were the result of a joint action of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the IEEE Latin American Robotics Council, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapter of Brazil. The joint conferences were held October 8–12, 2016, in Recife, PE, Brazil. The papers accepted for presentation at the symposium covered a large spectrum of topics, including active sensory processing and control; aerial vehicles; autonomous vehicles; bio- inspired robotics; CAD-based robotics; computing architectures; education issues in robotics; human/robot interaction; humanoids; industrial applications for robots; mechanical design; micro- and nanorobotics; mobile robot platforms; multirobots and multiagents; multirobot systems; robot behavior control; robot control architectures; robot learning; robot modeling; robot planning; robot programming; robot reasoning; robot simulation and visualization tools; robot soccer; robotic manipulators; robot communication; robust techniques in AI and sensing; self-localization, mapping, and navigation; sensor modeling and data interpretation; sensor-motor control of robots; service robots; teleoperated and autonomous systems; underwater robots; and vision in robotics. The Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS) is an international event sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapter of Brazil and the IEEE Latin American Robotics Council, which promote the development of and technological advances in autonomous robotics and mechatronics inside Latin America. The first edition of LARS was held in Mexico City in 2004; LARS/SBR 2014 was held in São Carlos, Brazil, and LARS/SBR 2015 in Uberlândia, Brazil. The Brazilian Robotics Symposium (SBR— Simpósio Brasileiro de Robótica) is the most important scientific event on robotics in Brazil, sponsored by the Special Robotics Committee of the Brazilian Computer Society. The symposium was created in 2012 as a follow-on to the former bi-annual event called JRI (Intelligent Robotics Journey) created in 2004. The previous editions were held jointly with LARS in São Carlos, Brazil in 2014 and Uberlândia, Brazil, in 2015. We received 98 submissions from 14 distinct countries, from which 58 papers were accepted (59% of acceptance). Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least two experts. The acceptance/rejection decision used the following criteria: all papers with two positive reviews were accepted, and those with two negative reviews were rejected. Borderline papers were analyzed carefully by the conference chairs in order to evaluate the reasons given for acceptance or rejection. Our final decision on these submissions took into account mainly the xi potential of each paper to foster fruitful discussions and the future development of robotics in Latin America and Brazil, including those at initial stages. In some cases, one more review was done in order for a decision to be made. The best high-quality papers were accepted for LARS/SBR 2016, and these papers will surely advance the state-of-the-art in robotics and influence new researches all over the world. Sérgio Vanderlei Cavalcante, Cin-UFPE / C.E.S.A.R. Robotica General Chair Flavio Tonidandel, FEI LARS/SBR 2016 Program Chair xii.