Jim Mainprice is group leader for robotics learning at Robert Bosch GmbH Corporate Research. Prior to joining Bosch, he was principal research engineer at Mercedes-Benz from April 2022 to December 2023, where he focused on automated driving. He was previously a substitute professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany for two years.  His research interests include robotics, motion planning, motion optimization, and human-motion prediction.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toulouse, France, which he completed at LAAS-CNRS, and a M.Sc. from Polytech Montpellier, France, which he received in 2012 and 2009 respectively. From January 2013 to December 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Autonomous Robotic Collaboration Lab at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) located in Massachusetts, USA, where he participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge as a member of the DRCHubo team. In January 2015, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, as a researcher, and from April 2017 to March 2022 he was the founder and leader of the Humans to Robots Motion research group of the University of Stuttgart, supported by the "System Mensch" research alliance.