Dr. Damien Sallé was awarded a Ph.D. in robotics (2004) from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) for his research on minimally invasive surgical robotics. From 2005 to 2010, he created and managed the R&D department of the Robosoft company (Biarritz, France), developing service-robotics applications and products such as driverless shuttles, service robots for elderlies, and autonomous robots for logistics and military applications. Since 2010, he has worked at the Tecnalia private research center (San Sebastian, Spain) as project manager for robotics and advanced manufacturing. He is also Tecnalia's transversal coordinator of all the sector-specific robotics and automation groups. Since 2018, he has pushed a new line of research focused on robotics to impact environmental sustainability. Damien won various awards, including the Basque award for excellent research trajectory.