Guest Editorial

Riko Šafaric was born in 1961. He received the B. Sc. degree in 1985, the M.Sc. degree in 1989 and the Ph. D. in 1994 in Electrical Engineering from University of Maribor, Slovenia. He was researcher in the industry for three years after he had received his B.Sc. degree. He became a researcher and later an assistant at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor after he had received the M.Sc. degree. He has been holding the position of an associate professor of Robotics since 2001. His research interests are mainly in the field of robotics: adaptive control of direct-drive robot mechanism, neural-network control, sliding-mode control, telerobotics via internet, collision detection in virtual reality world, mechatronics design etc. Reviewer intersts: Research interests: remote robotics applications, telerobotics, robotics, robot dynamics, adaptive control of robots Academic rank: Associate professor of robotics