SSRR 2013 will be hosted this year at Linköping, Sweden. The 11th anniversary of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics will continue its tradition of attracting cutting-edge papers in the theory and practice of robots for rapid and secure inspection of critical infrastructure, travelers, luggage, and paces; disaster response and recovery; humanitarian demining, disaster mitigation and recovery; detection of chemical, biological and radiological risks and operations in these dangerous sites; etc