Cezary Zielinski received: M.Sc./Eng. degree in control in 1982, Ph.D. degree in control and robotics in 1988 and D.Sc. (habilitation) degree also in control and robotics in 1996, all from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. He is a professor of WUT employed by the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering (IAIS). He spent 9 months in all as a visiting researcher at Mechanical Engineering Department of Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, United Kingdom, in 1990 and 1992, working on robot programming methods. In the years 1999-2001 he was employed as a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was involved in robotics research and mechatronics education. In the years 2002-2005 he served as the vice-Dean for Research and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of WUT. In the years 2005-2008 he served as the Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering. Currently he is the director of this Institute. In the years 2004-2008 he was a Board Member in EURON II Network of Excellence within the framework of FP6. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was an Information Officer in the Polish Section of IEEE (2002-2006). In the years 2003-2007 he was a member of the Forecast Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Poland 2000 Plus. Since 2007 he is a member and the secretary of the Committee for Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Moreover, in WUT he heads the Robotics Group in IAIS working on the design of special purpose robot manipulators, their controllers and programming methods. His research interests focus on robotics in general and especially include: robot programming methods, multi-robot system controllers, robot kinematics, robot force control, visual servo control, utilisation of sensors in robot control, design of digital circuits.