Manish Chauhan is a Lecturer in Medical Engineering at the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York (since 2021). His research interests involve soft robotics, biophotonics, bio-imaging, novel materials etc. Before this, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Leeds where he actively participated in research at the National Centre for Robotic Engineering and Applications (2017-21). Dr. Manish Chauhan completed his PhD degree in Bioengineering Robotics from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy (2014-17). Dr. Chauhan is an alumnus of IIT Delhi (2008-10), where he completed his M. Tech in Design of Mechanical Equipment.
Subir Kumar Saha is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi, and Presently the Project Director of I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC), a non-profit company of IIT Delhi as its Technology Innovation Hub. He was mentor of the Robotics Club at IIT Delhi during 2002-2015. He did his B.E. (1983), M. Tech (1985), and Ph. D (1991) from REC (now NIT) Durgapur, IIT Kharagpur, and McGill University, Canada, respectively. Following his Ph. D, Professor Saha worked in the R&D Centre of Toshiba Corporation, Japan during 1991-95 before he returned to India. Since 1996 he has been with IIT Delhi. As a teacher, Professor Saha has always wanted to reach the young minds of the students. Hence, he encouraged the students to take part in ROBOCON Competitions that led to the formation of the Robotics Club at IIT Delhi, and this book. Professor Saha has written a textbook on “Introduction to Robotics” published by McGraw-Hill, and several special books on Dynamics of Multibody Systems published by Springer.
Prof. Achinta Kumar Sarmah is a seasoned academician from India and currently serving IIM shillong in the area of Operations and Quantitative Techniques. Prof. Sarmah has completed his MCA from Jorhat Engineering college, Assam in the year 2002. Hence forth he completed his PhD from Tezpur University Assam in the year 2014. Apart from his teaching and research assignments, he is also acively involved in translation work from English to Assamese and Hindi and vice-versa