IEEE Fellow; ASME Fellow; IFAC Fellow; Professor of Control and Robotics; Chair of the Scientific Council of the Interdepartmental Center for Advanced RObotics in Surgery (ICAROS); Coordinator of the PRISMA Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; Honorary Professor and Rudolf Kálmán Chair at Óbuda University, Hungary; Past-President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.