IEEE EMBS members come from everywhere and every walk of life. They work in industry, academic institutions, hospitals, and government agencies. They design the electrical circuits that make a pacemaker run...create the software that reads an MRI...and help develop the wireless technologies that allow patients and doctors to communicate over long distances. They're interested in bioinformatics, biotechnology, clinical engineering, information technology, instrumentation and measurement, micro and nanotechnology, radiology, and robots. They are researchers and educators, technicians and clinicians; they are the link between science and life science; and they help the modern world work.

From formalized mathematical theory through experimental science, from technological development to practical clinical applications, IEEE EMBS members support scientific, technological, and educational activities as they apply to the concepts and methods of the physical and engineering sciences in biology and medicine. By working together, we can transform and revolutionize future medicine and healthcare.

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Societies objectives are scientific, literary and educational in character. The Society strives for the advancement of the theory and practice of robotics and automation engineering and science and of the allied arts and sciences, and for the maintenance of high professional standards among its members, all in consonance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the IEEE and with special attention to such aims within the Field of Interest of the Society.

The Society is interested in both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems used, for example, in space exploration, human services, or manufacturing; whereas automation includes the use of automated methods in various applications, for example, factory, office, home, or transportation systems to improve performance and productivity.

The Society provides aid in promoting close cooperation and exchange of technical information among its Members and Affiliates, and to this end holds meetings for the presentation of papers and their discussion, sponsors appropriate periodicals and special technical publications, and through its committees studies and provide for the needs of its Members and Affiliates.

The Solid-State Circuits Society with over 10,000 members around the world focuses on realized integrated circuit designs for all applications, using appropriate materials and interconnections. So that more time can be spent on reporting and discussing fabricated designs, less time is spent on simulated and analyzed circuits. The Society produces the most downloaded technical journal in IEEE Xplore, the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and sponsors the premier circuits realization conference the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. (ISSCC)

The roots of the Society start with the launch of the ISSCC in 1955. The Journal started in 1966 to provide an archive of major presentations from conferences, expanded to journal length papers. Soon afterward the leadership organized itself as a Council of all IEEE Societies contributing to the field of integrated circuits. As the field grew in the 1980s, two more conferences with a solid-state circuits focus were launched , the Symposia of VLSI, a sister symposia with the Electron Devices Society, and the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. An important relationship began with the European Solid-State Device Electronics Conference and the European Solid-State Circuits Conference. In 1997 the Council became a Society giving itmore control over its own work. In 2003, the Society launched the Asian Solid-Solid State Circuits Conference. In 2009 marked the launch of the Solid-State Circuits Magazine.