Darwin G. Caldwell is the Founding Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, where he is also the Director of the Department of Advanced Robotics. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Hull in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and an M.Sc. in Management from the University of Salford, in 1994. He is/has been an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, King’s College, Bangor, in the U.K., and Tianjin and Soochow University, in China. He has authored over 800 publications with total citations of over 40,000, has an h-index of 100, and has received over 50 awards/nominations at international conferences and events. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015), the IEEE (2022) and Academia Europaea (2024). He is Vice-President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.