Giovanni Berselli is a Full Professor and Chair of Design Methods for Industrial Engineering at the University of Genova, Italy, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Advanced Robotics Department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). Prof. Berselli is a Fellow of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and the Chair of the ASME Italy Section. He is also the past Chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Adaptive Systems. He has been a Visiting & affiliated Scientist at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, at the German Aerospace Agency (DLR), at the University of Twente, at Monash University, and with the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Navarra. He has authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals or conference proceedings and edited two international books. Berselli is a recipient of several ASME, IEEE, and IFToMM Best Paper Awards; he is a Scientific Advisor for the spin-off company Adaptronics S.r.l. and a Technical Advisor for the company PHM Technology. Prof. Berselli's scientific activity is focused on the design and experimental evaluation of (i) robot hands & grippers; (ii) compliant/soft mechanisms and actuators for safe human-robot interaction; (iii) energy-aware industrial robotics.