Giorgio Metta is the Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He holds an MSc with honors (1994) and a PhD (2000) in electrical engineering from the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral associate at the AI-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked at the University of Genoa and was Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK) from 2012 to 2019. From 2020 to 2021 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, UK. Giorgio Metta served as deputy scientific director of IIT from 2016 to 2019. He serves in the Board of Directors of Gefran S.p.A. and Industrie De Nora S.p.A., two listed Italian companies. Giorgio Metta’s research activities are in the field of bioinspired systems and humanoid robotics, with a focus on the design of machines that can learn from experience; he has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications and worked as PI on about a dozen international and industrial research projects. He has coordinated the development of the iCub robot for more than a decade, making it the de facto platform of choice for research in AI; there are currently more than 50 robots in the world, in research labs as far as Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, Spain, the UK and the US