Carlos Balaguer is professor of robotics in the University Carlos III of Madid and co-coordinator of the RoboticsLab research team formed by about 100 full-time researchers. His research focuses, among others, on intelligent robots, humanoid robotics, manipulation and locomotion control, assistance and service robots, rehabilitation and medical robots, robotics and automation in construction, and human-robot interaction. He is the director of the robotics hub RoboCity2030 that coordinates the research activities of all Madrid region universities and CSIC. He was also an elected director of the European Association of Robotics euRobotics from … to … He has published more than 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings, and several books in the field of robotics. He has participated in 24 competitive European projects from the FP4 program to the current Horizon Europe one. He has received several awards, including the best book on Robotics by McGraw-Hill (1988); the 2006 Tucker-Hasegawa Award in Tokyo (Japan) for his important contribution in the field of robotics and automation inconstruction; and the 2014 award for the coordination of the Airbus-UC3M joint R&D center. He was the General Chair of the IEEE/RSJ IROS’2018 and IEEE-RAS Humanoids´2014 conferences.