Marco Ceccarelli is a professor of Mechanics of Machines at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, where he chairs LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics. His research interests are in robot design, mechanism kinematics, experimental mechanics with special attention to parallel kinematics machines, service robotic devices, mechanism design, and history of machines and mechanisms. He is an ASME fellow. Professor Ceccarelli serves in several Journal editorial boards and conference scientific committees, and is editor of the Springer book series on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) and History of MMS. Professor Ceccarelli has been the President of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of MMS in 2008-11 and 2016-19. He has started several IFToMM sponsored conferences including (HMM) Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, MEDER (Mechanism Design for Robotics) and MUSME (Multibody Systems and Mechatronics).