Jianwei Zhang is professor and Director of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg. He is Academician of German National Academy of Engineering Sciences and Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg Germany. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University. He received both his Bachelor of Engineering (1986, Computer Control, with distinction) and Master of Engineering (1989, AI) at the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his PhD (1994, Robotics) at the Institute of Real-Time Computer Systems and Robotics, Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Jianwei Zhang′s research interests include multimodal information (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) processing; cognitive sensor fusion for robot perception; real-time learning algorithms; modelling of sensory-motor control tasks; natural human-robot interaction; learning and control of robot grasping and in-hand manipulation; experience-based robot learning; best view algorithm for active robot vision; modular reconfigurable robots; mobile manipulation service robots, etc. In these areas, he has published over 500 journal and conference papers, and hold over 50 patents of robot mechatronic design, novel robot arms and end-effectors, modular robots, etc. He is the General Chairs of IEEE MFI (Multisensor Fusion and Integration) 2012, the Robotics Flagship Congress IEEE/RSJ IROS (Intelligent Robots an