Amy R. Wu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Biorobotics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland). She works on Symbitron, a multinational and multidisciplinary project to help paraplegics regain mobility with wearable exoskeletons driven by bio-inspired neuromuscular controllers, and RoboCom++ to develop better haptic interfaces with mobile robots. Her research interests are in biomechanics and control of balance and locomotion to build better assistive technologies. She will be an assistive professor in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University (Canada) in January 2019.

Matthew A. Robertson is a PhD candidate in the Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory (RRL) at EPFL, currently active in the fields of Soft Robotics and Wearable Devices. His research involves the design, development, and characterization of new soft-material-based actuators, along with their unique application in versatile robotic systems. Beyond this current focus, Matthew is also generally interested in dynamic robotic legged locomotion, and mechanically-informed heuristic control strategies. Prior to entering his PhD program, he worked as a research engineer with a startup company designing, fabricating, and testing advanced robotic prosthetic devices.