Giovanni Muscato received a Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 1988. After completing graduation, he was with the Centro di Studi sui Sistemi, Turin, Italy. In 1990, he joined the DIEEI, the University of Catania, where he is currently a full-time Professor in robotics and automatic control. Since 2018, he has been the Director of the Department. His current research interests include service robotics and the cooperation between ground and flying robots. He was the coordinator of the EC project Robovolc, and he is the local coordinator of several national and European projects in robotics. He is the author of more than 300 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and three books in the fields of control and robotics. He is with the Board of Trustees of the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) Association. For more information, visit the link (https://www.muscato.eu).