Dr. George Michalos is a Mechanical Engineer and holder of a PhD in Engineer-ing from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at Uni-versity of Patras. He is currently employed as a project manager at the Laboratory of Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS) (www.lms.mech.upatras.gr) and has participated in several EU and national projects in the areas of: advanced industrial and collaborating robots, robotic perception and autonomy in decision making, human robot collaborative ap-plications, intuitive interfaces for safe hybrid production applications, and de-sign of flexible manufacturing systems.

He is the coordinator of the H2020 project “THOMAS - Mobile dual arm robotic workers with em-bedded cognition for hybrid and dynamically reconfigurable manufacturing systems” and in the re-cent past he has been actively involved in EU projects on human robot collaboration ROBO-PARTNER (www.robo-partner.eu) (project manager), X-act (www.xact-project.eu) and SYMBIO-TIC (http://www.symbio-tic.eu) as well as on autonomous and reconfigurable robotic systems AUTORE-CON (http://www.autorecon.eu).