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Alessandro Saffiotti is full professor of Computer Science at Orebro University, Sweden, where he leads the AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Lab. He received a PhD in 1998 in Applied Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests encompass artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and technology for elderly people. He is a director of euRobotics, the European robotics association, and the scientific manager of AI4EU, the EU landmark project to develop the European AI platform and ecosystem. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, pioneering the area of integrating AI and Robotics, and receiving more than 10,000 citations with an h-index of 51 (data from Google Scholar). He has participated in 14 EU projects, several EU networks, and many national projects. He is on the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence and of the Int Journal on Social Robotics. He is a member of AAAI, a senior member of IEEE, and a fellow of EurAI.