Pedro Lima got his Ph.D. (1994) in Electrical Engineering at RPI, NY, USA. Currently, he is a Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, where he coordinates the MSc Program on Electrical and Computer Engineering (the largest MSc Program at IST) and a researcher of the Institute for Systems and Robotics, where he is the Coordinator of the Intelligent Robots and Systems group and Deputy President for Scientific Matters. He is the co-author of two books, and member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier’s Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. His research interests lie in the areas of formation control, cooperative perception, social robotics and discrete event models of robot tasks and planning under uncertainty, with applications to networked robot systems, e.g., in hospital, home and search and rescue scenarios. He has (co-)supervised successfully 18 PhD students since 2002, and currently (co-)supervises another 6 PhD students. Pedro Lima was President and founding member of the Portuguese Robotics Society, was National Delegate to EU and ESA Space Robotics programs and was awarded a 6-month Chair of Excellence at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain in 2010. Pedro is very active in robot competitions, and he is a Trustee of the RoboCup Federation (2003-2012, 2016-), General Chair of RoboCup2004, held in Lisbon, the Coordinator of the FP7 Coordination Action RoCKIn, Coordinator of Indoor competitions of the European Robotics League, and member of the Advisory Board of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), United Arab Emirates (2017 and 2020). He has also been very active in the promotion of Science and Technology to the society, through the organization of Robotics events in Portugal, including the Portuguese Robotics Open since 2001.