Juha Röning is Emeritus Professor of Embedded System at the University of Oulu and Visiting Professor of Tianjin University of Technology, P. R. China. He was principal investigator of the Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group (BISG), Finland. From 1985 to 1986 he was a visiting research scientist in the Center for Robotic Research at the University of Cincinnati via Asla/Fullbright scholarship. From 1986 to 1989 he held a Young Researcher Position in the Finnish Academy. In 2000 he was nominated as Fellow of SPIE. He has three patents and has published more than 400 papers in the areas of computer vision, robotics, intelligent signal analysis, and software security. He is currently serving as a Board of Director for euRobotics aisbl and a steering board member of ARTMIS-IA.