Graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. He is a doctor of engineering at Ritsumeikan University. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a researcher at the Mitsubishi Electric Advanced Research Institute, and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, he has been in his current position at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) since April 2017 where he is the director of Soft Haptics Lab. His current research interests are soft robotics, soft haptic interaction, tactile sensing, grasping and manipulation, bio-inspired robots.

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is Tenured Senior Researcher at IIT, leader of Soft BioRobotics Perception (SBRP) research line, and until 2009 was Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Biorobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. She collaborated and had scientific responsibility in many international projects at European and intercontinental level. She is interested in soft and embodied sensing processes, with a focus on touch, to enable soft perceptive robots of natural-like physical interactions, like in bioinspired soft grasping and manipulation. Some specific topics include soft tactile systems inspired by natural mechanotransduction and morphology, and active touch by soft robotic systems, like versatile continuum grippers inspired from elephant trunk. Currently she is the coordinator of the PROBOSCIS project (EU H2020-FET Open 863212). She serves as Associate Editor for some journals including Scientific Reports, IEEE RA-L and Frontiers in Robotics and AI for which she received the 2021 Outstanding Associate Editor Award. and as expert evaluator for the EU project proposals and for some international research agencies. She filed 3 patents

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Helmut Hauser is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Robotics at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Helmut is the Director of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (FARSCOPE TU). He also leads the UK-RAS Strategic Task Group for Soft Robotics, which promotes Soft Robotics in the UK. Helmut’s research is focused on morphological computation and embodiment, especially in the context of soft robotics. He is interested in understanding the underlying principles of how complex physical properties of biological systems are exploited to facilitate learning and controlling tasks, and how these principles can be employed to design better robots.

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Fumiya Iida is Professor of Robotics at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Previously he was an assistant professor for bio-inspired robotics at ETH Zurich (2009-2014) and a lecturer at Cambridge (2014-2018). He received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering at Tokyo University of Science (1999), and Dr. sc. nat. in Informatics at University of Zurich (2006). In 2004 and 2005 he was also engaged in biomechanics research of human locomotion at Locomotion Laboratory, University of Jena (Germany). From 2006-2009, he was a postdoc at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. His research interests include biologically inspired robotics, embodied intelligence, and biomechanics of human locomotion and manipulation which are related to dynamic-legged locomotion, navigation of autonomous robots, and human-machine interactions.

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