The Future of Automation [Turning Point]

In this issue, Eugenio Guglielmelli (EG), editor-in-chief of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), interviews Henrik I. Christensen (HC). Henrik is the KUKA chair of Robotics and the executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He does research on robotics and computer vision with an emphasis on estimation and systems engineering. He was the founder of the European Robotics Research Network and the editor of the U.S. National Robotics Roadmaps (2009, 2013). He is the chair of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Advisory Board.