Dr. Xuefeng Zhou is an Associate Professor and Leader of the Robotics Team at Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Guangdong Academy of Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Manufacturing and Automation from the South China University of Technology in 2011. His research mainly focuses on motion planning and control, force control and legged robots. He has published more than 40 journal articles and conference papers.Dr. Hongmin Wu is a Researcher at Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Guangdong Academy of Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2019. His research mainly focuses on robot learning, autonomous manipulation, deep learning and human–robot collaboration. He has published more than 20 journal articles and conference papers.Dr. Juan Rojas is an “100 Young Talents” Associate Professor at the Guangdong University of Technology inGuangzhou, China, where he works at the Biomimetics and Intelligent Robotics Lab (BIRL). Dr. Rojas currently researches robot introspection, human intention prediction, high-level state estimation and skill acquisition for manipulation tasks. He has published more than 40 journal articles and conference papers. Dr. Rojas serves as an Associate Editor of Advanced Robotic Journal since 2019 and Associate Editor of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) since 2017.Dr. Zhihao Xu is a Researcher at Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Guangdong Academy of Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 2016. His research mainly focuses on intelligent control theory, motion planning and control and force control. He has published more than 30 journal articles and conference papers.Prof. Shuai Li is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Associate Professor (Reader) at the College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA, in 2014. His research interests are robot manipulation, automation and instrumentation, artificial intelligence and industrial robots. He has published over 80 papers in journals such as IEEE TAC, TII, TCYB, TIE and TNNLS. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics and Control and was the General Co-Chair of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control.
