Robot Design: Application to Medical Robotics

Med Amine Laribi is a Professor in the Faculty of Fundamental and Applied Sciences at the University of Poitiers (UP), where he teaches robotics and mechanics. He holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree with a specialization in Mechanical Design from École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir (E.N.I.M.), which he obtained in 2001. He earned an M.S. degree in Mechanical Design in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2005. Additionally, he received a National Habilitation in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2018. His research interests include robot design, mechanism synthesis, cable-driven robots, parallel robots, haptic interfaces, and collaborative robots.

Carl Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He obtained his degrees in Mechanical Engineering: a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from The University of Oklahoma in 2000, a Master of Science (M.S.) from Purdue University in 2002, and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) from Purdue University in 2005. His research activities encompass robot design and kinematics, medical devices, and the medical applications of robotics.