Emilio Cartoni received the Ph.D. degree in behavioral neuroscience from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. He is a Researcher with the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome. He contributed to writing the winning proposal for the EU FET-OPEN project: “GOAL-Robots—Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning Robots” from 2016 to 2020, the European Space Agency project “IMPACT” from 2018 to 2019, and the EU FET Innovation Launchpad project “GROW” from 2021 to 2023 which he coordinated. His research expertise and interests involve artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, exploration in open-ended learning, autonomous robot learning based on self-generated goals, and computational models of animal learning (from neural structures to behavior).