Sehoon Oh received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. He was a research associate at The University of Tokyo until 2012, a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin from 2010 to 2011, and a guest scientist at DLR from 2022 to 2023. He is currently an Associate Professor at DGIST, Daegu, South Korea directing Motion Control Lab. His research is based on servo control for high precision control utilizing the dynamic model of systems, and the application of this idea extends to robot control, vehicle control, and various applications of motion control. He still believes that there are things that AI-based methodology cannot understand and achieve, which forms his current research interest in model-based control of complicated systems. He received the Best Transactions Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2013.

Jinoh Lee is a Research Scientist with the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, and is Adjunct Professor with Mechanical Engineering Department, KAIST, South Korea. He received the B.S. degree (Summa Cum Laude) in mechanical engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2003, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2012. Prior to joining DLR in 2020, he held the Research Scientist position at the Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy. His professional focus is on robotics and control engineering, which include manipulation of highly redundant robots such as dual-arm and humanoids, robust control of nonlinear systems and compliant robotic system control for safe human-robot interaction 

Manuel Keppler leads the Elastic Robot Control group at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in Germany. His team seeks to advance the foundations of robot control, planning, and design to empower elastic robots to achieve human-like motion performance and efficiency. He further directs the control development for DLR David, a humanoid robot equipped with variable stiffness actuators. Manuel received a B.S. in molecular biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2009, a B.S. and M.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 2012 and 2014 and the PhD in computer science (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as a research scientist in 2014 and since 2019 he is leading a control team. From 2019 to 2020 he was Visiting Researcher at Sapienza University in Rome collaborating with Prof. Alessandro De Luca. As of 2023, Manuel leads his own research group. His current research interests include the control and analysis of nonlinear and underactuated systems, including compliant and variable stiffness robots, and the design of robust and energy-efficient robots. He was a finalist for the Best Paper Award on Automation at the 2016 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Stockholm, Sweden, and, in 2023, received a “IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award Honorable Mentions”. 

 Dr. Paine received his B.S., MS., and PhD. in the field of electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focused on high-performance series elastic actuation technologies for legged robots. His academic contributions have seen adoption in over 1,000 peer reviewed citations, and numerous recreations all over the world. His academic accomplishments led to him being invited to collaborate on several high-profile robotics projects such as the Valkyrie Humanoid Robot at NASA-JSC, and robots developed by Meka Robotics. After graduating, he founded Apptronik to continue developing advanced robotic technology and to apply these technologies to commercial products. He currently serves as CTO where he has led numerous robotics projects in the fields of exoskeletons, manipulators, and humanoids. 

Elliott Rouse is an Associate Professor in the Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of Michigan (U-M). He directs the Neurobionics Lab, whose vision is to reverse engineer how the nervous system regulates the mechanics of locomotion, and use this information to develop assistive technologies that leverage this understanding. His group studies the design, control, and evaluation of lower-limb exoskeletons and robotic prostheses. He has launched the careers of four doctoral students, two of which are faculty at Research I institutions in the USA. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and is a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on BioRobotics. In addition, he is on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Wearable Technologies. Elliott received the BS degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and the PhD degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University. Subsequently, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining U-M, Elliott was faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering at Northwestern University / Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and worked in professional autoracing. In 2019 – 2020, he was a visiting faculty member at (Google) X, where he maintains an appointment.