Dikai Liu is a distinguished professor and Director of the Robotics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. His current research interest is robotics with the focus on perception, planning, human-robot collaboration and robotic systems. He has published many papers in IEEE Transactions including T-RO, T-ASE, T-Mech and T-BME and IJRR. Besides conducting fundamental robotics research, he has also been transforming robotics research to industry applications, including autonomous robots for steel bridge maintenance, bio-inspired climbing robots for inspection of confined space, intelligent robotic co-worker for human-robot collaborative abrasive blasting, smart hoist for patient transfer, and autonomous robots for underwater structure maintenance. Since 2006, his research has received over 20 best paper and research/engineering excellence awards, including the 2019 ASME DED Leonardo da Vinci Award, the 2019 UTS Medal for Research Impact, the 2019 BHERT Award, the 2016 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA) and the 2015 Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Award. Part of his research outcomes has been translated to industry applications, including autonomous bridge maintenance robots commercialized by SABRE Autonomous Solutions, a climbing robot deployed for confined space inspection, underwater robots for bridge pile maintenance, and multi-robot systems for automated container handling.