Amir Shapiro received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1997, 2000, and 2004, respectively. From 2005 to 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He is currently a Full Professor and director of the Robotics and Control Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Prof. Shapiro also serves as the head of the Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics. Additionally, he chairs the M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in Mechatronics and the combined B.Sc. program in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Prof. Shapiro is the chief scientist of Robotican, a company that develops and sells UGVs, UAVs, and drone interception systems. He is also the CTO and founder of Pickommerce AI Robotics, which develops automated pick-and-pack stations for e-commerce warehouse automation. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers in the fields of design, motion planning, and control of robotic systems, with a particular focus on legged locomotion and robotic grasping. He holds 10 patents, some of which have been commercialized, with their respective products sold globally. Prof. Shapiro has supervised 14 Ph.D. students, 44 M.Sc. students, and 351 undergraduate final project students. His lab graduates hold key management and technical roles in Israeli academia and the robotics industry.