Journal Introduction: Intelligence & Robotics (IR) is an international peer-reviewed, gold open access, online journal. It publishes top-quality unpublished original technical and non-technical application-focused articles on intelligence and robotics, particularly on the interdisciplinary areas of intelligence and robotics. The Journal seeks to publish articles that deal with the theory, design, and applications of intelligence and robotics, ranging from software to hardware. The Journal would be interested in the distributed development and maintenance of real-world intelligent and robotic systems by multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers.