Huosheng Hu is Professor and Head of Robotics and Mechatronics Group in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He received the MSc degree in industrial automation from the Central South University in China in 1982 and the PhD degree in robotics from the University of Oxford in the U.K. in 1993. His research interests include autonomous robots, embedded systems, data fusion, human-robot interaction, machine learning algorithms, cloud computing and mechatronics. He has published over 500 papers in journals, books and conferences in these areas. Prof. Hu is a Fellow of Institute of Engineering & Technology, a Fellow of Institute of Measurement & Control, a founding member of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical committee on Networked Robots. He has been a Program Chair or a member of Advisory Committee for many international conferences such as IEEE ICRA, IROS, ICMA, ROBIO. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Automation and Computing, and Executive Editor for International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation.