Antonello Longo} was born in Castellana Grotte, Italy. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Automation Engineering and the Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, from the Polytechnic University of Bari. He is currently pursuing his PhD studies in the national PhD program in Autonomous Systems. His research mainly focuses on Artificial Intelligence systems for robotics perception, Autonomous exploration, Computer vision algorithms and Distributed processing. His research interest is in the development of novel techniques to enable human-machine interaction based on natural language, in autonomous exploration scenarios.