Francesco Ferro obtained a BSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2002 at the Politecnico di Torino. He began a PhD in Computer Vision but left it in 2004 to attend a robotics humanoid project. He started the development of stereo vision algorithms and later he joined the autonomous robot navigation team to implement various SLAM algorithms. In 2008 he became the manager of the software department of PAL. He obtained an MBA at the UB University in Barcelona in 2011. Since the beginning of 2011 he is the CEO of PAL Robotics, in charge of REEM's humanoids robots development.