Professor Shugen Ma (IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow, Foreign Fellow of the EAJ) received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is now a professor of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust of Systems Hub at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Before he joined HKUST (GZ), he was a professor at Ritsumeikan University and a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Shenyang Institute of Automation of CAS, Tianjin University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, respectively. Professor Ma’s research interests include but are not limited to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots, amphibious robots, field robotics, and biologically inspired robotics. He has published over 500 papers in major journals and conference proceedings, developed over 50 novel robot systems with over 80 patents, and supervised 45 doctoral students and over 100 M. Phil. students to graduation. He has also been featured in the list of the world’s top 2% of scientists published by Stanford University. Prof. Ma is a Professor Emeritus of Ritsumeikan University, a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and the general chair of IROS 2022 (a top robotics conference). He founded the ROBIO conference in 2004, was the general chair of ROBIO 2004, ROBIO 2010, and ROBIO 2016, and served many societies and conferences.