Dr. Claudio Semini is the head of the Dynamic Legged Systems (DLS) lab at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), since 2012. He received an M.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich in electrical engineering and information technology, in 2005. He spent 2 years in Tokyo for his research: MSc thesis at the Hirose Lab at Tokyo Tech and staff engineer at the Toshiba R&D center in Kawasaki. During his Ph.D. (2010) and subsequent Postdoc at IIT, he developed the quadruped robot HyQ. He has published more than 100 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a co-founder of the Technical Committee on Mechanisms and Design of the IEEE-RAS Society. He is/was the coordinator/partner of several EU-, National and Industrial projects (HyQ-REAL, INAIL Teleop, Moog@IIT joint lab, ESA-ANT, etc). His research interests include the construction and control of highly dynamic and versatile legged robots for application in real-world operations, locomotion, and hydraulic drives.