International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region – RAAD’05, Bucharest, Romania, May 26-28, 2005. A number of 95 papers have been selected for presentation in three plenary sessions and twenty four technical sessions, involving 142 authors from 14 countries. The session topics reflect the trends in analysis, modelling, design and integration of robot systems in various fields of activity and applications: manufacturing, services, health care, surgery and human prostheses, education and collaborative projects, space investigation, tele-operation and web-based control, grasping, guidance vision, automated visual inspection and data fusion.