About the authors
Georg Rauter studied mechanical engineering at TU-Graz and mathematical and mechanical modeling at MATMECA, Bordeaux. In 2014, he received his PhD in robotics from ETH Zurich. From 2014 to 2016 he was postdoc in rehabilitation robotics at ETH Zurich, University of Southern California (USC), and University of Zurich. In parallel, he worked as CTO for the first CYBATHLON (ETH Zurich) in 2015 before commercializing the gait rehabilitation robot the FLOAT in collaboration with the company Lutz Medical Engineering and the Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Balgrist, Zurich. In 2016, he founded the BIROMED-Lab as Assistant Prof. for Medical Robotics and Mechatronics at the DBE, University of Basel. Since March 2016, Georg Rauter has held a structural professorship as Associate Professor in Surgical Robotics, at the DBE, University of Basel. Georg Rauter has been a IEEE member since 2011 and chair for IFToMM Switzerland since 2019. His research interests focus on development of medical robots from ideas to functional prototypes.
Thomas Seel studied engineering cybernetics at Otto von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg, Germany, and the University of California (UC) at Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2016. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany. His research interests include dynamic inference and learning in biomedical and mechatronic systems.
Philipp Rostalski is a professor for Electrical Engineering in Medicine and head of the corresponding institute at the University of Lübeck. Since 2020 he is also director at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-based Medical Engineering (IMTE) in Lübeck. He received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and served as a Feodor Lynen Scholar at the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, USA. His research activities include model- and data-driven methods in signal processing and control with a particular focus on safety critical systems. His primary application domains are biomedical and autonomous systems.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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