Honghai Liu (Member, Academia Europaea; Fellow, IEEE/IET), received the PhD in intelligent robotics from King’s College London, UK. He is a Professor at State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems, HIT Shenzhen; He is also a Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is interested in multimodal sensing, neurorobotics and embodied intelligence for theory and applications with an emphasis on approaches that could make contribution to the intelligent connection of perception to action using contextual information. He has authored/co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers with several best paper awards.