He received his B.S. degree in Electronics Systems from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico) in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) in 2004. His research interests are in intelligent machines and automation, medical and assistive robots, humanoid robots and educational robots. He is author/co-author over 200 publications. He is member of IFToMM as well as IEEE Senior member.