Costas S. Tzafestas (Member, IEEE) received the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1993, and the D.E.A. degree in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 in robotics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France. In 2003, he joined the NTUA School of ECE where he currently serves as an Associate Professor of robotics. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific publications and has participated as a Project Coordinator or Scientific Manager in several European and national research projects in the above fields. He currently serves as an Editor-at-Large for the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. His main research interests include cognitive assistive robotics, human–robot interaction, haptics and telerobotics, also spanning intelligent control, and robot learning with applications in advanced manipulation and mobile robotics.