This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint Conference on Robotics, LARS, SBR, Robocontrol 2014, held in Sao Carlos, Brazil, in October 2014. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of intelligent robotics and automation research, covering the following areas: autonomous mobile robots, tele-operated and telepresence robots, human-robot interaction, trajectory control for mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, service-oriented robotic systems, semantic mapping, environment mapping, visual odometry, applications of RGB-D sensors, humanoid and biped robots, Robocup soccer robots, robot control, path planning, multiple vehicles and teams of robots.

Jamison Desroche is on the run from a dictatorship that overtook the world a century ago. Along the way he encounters new friends as well as hardships, and must learn to overcome his past. Will he be caught by the government that is hot on his tail, and protect his friends from it as well? Or will he be yet another victim of the cruel world power?