The International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2010) will be the 27th symposium. The 27th ISARC (ISARC 2010) will be held in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, from June 25th to 27th of 2010. The first symposium was held in June 1984 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Later symposia from this series were organized and held in France, Israel, Japan (multiple times), USA (multiple times), United Kingdom (multiple times), Germany (multiple times), Poland (multiple times), Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, India and Lithuania.

ISARC 2010 is sponsored by the International Association of Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC). The symposium is also sponsored by International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), Quality Management Centre in Construction - CEMAKS and Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering. The symposium is a prestigious gathering of researchers, academics and industry practitioners in all specialty areas related to the construction industry, including civil and building engineering design and project execution, advanced construction machinery and robotics applications in construction, information technologies for planning, design, logistics, computer-aided project management, environmental protection issues, building systems monitoring and control, safety and recovery operations, and temporary/rapid construction technologies.