The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Collaboration with IEEE CASE held the first ever Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC). The competition is simulation-based and designed to promote robot agility by utilizing the latest advances in artificial intelligence and robot planning. The workshop will be held at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Vancouver Canada, September 24-28, 2018 and will present the findings and approaches of the top performing teams as well as all the lessons learned from the competition.