Antonio Barrientos received his MSc and PhD degrees from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1982 and 1986, respectively. In 2002, he obtained his MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Distance Education. Since 1988, he has been a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he is presently a full Professor and teaches robotics and automatic control. He has worked in robotics for more than 35 years and has developed industrial and service robots for different areas. He is a permanent staff member of the Center for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), where he is the Head of the Applied Robotics Unit. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a former member of the steering committee of the CEA (Spanish Automatics Committee, IFAC Spanish chapter).