Frank Kirchner is full professor at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Bremen, CEO of the Robotics Innovation Center and speaker of the Bremen location of the German Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Prof. Kirchner is also Scientific Director of the Brazilian Institute of Robotics (BIR). He is a leading expert in research on biologically inspired locomotion and behaviour of highly redundant, multifunctional robotic systems. For a number of PhD students he is the principal supervisor and he regularly serves as a reviewer for a series of international scientific journals and conferences. Frank Kirchner also is author of more than 200 publications in the field of Robotics and AI, including space robotics.