Prof. Dr. Oscar Altuzarra is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Bilbao School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain. He is a member of the Technical Committees on Computational Kinematics and Robotics in IFToMM, member of ASME, and author of more than 150 scientific publications. His fundamental research work focuses now on the kinematics of continuum parallel manipulators. His past research has varied from computational models to solve complex mechanical problems to analytical and numerical solutions of classical kinematics and singularities in parallel kinematic machines. He is now the Head of the COMPMECH Research Group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Mónica Urízar received the MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao (Spain) in 2006 and the Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2012 from the same university. In 2010 and 2011, she completed two predoctoral international stays at Innsbruck University (Austria) and at RWTH University in Aachen (Germany), respectively.  She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Bilbao School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Spain. She has relevant publications in the field of robotics and mechanisms. She has also participated in numerous international congresses on this subject. Her fundamental research work is related to computational kinematics, workspace characterization, and singularity analysis of parallel manipulators, reconfigurable robots, optimum dimensional synthesis, and continuum parallel manipulators. She belongs to the COMPMECH Research Group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Kerman Bilbao received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao (Spain) in 2023 and is now pursuing MSc in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently working as a researcher as part of the COMPMECH Research Group of the University of the Basque Country. His research topics focus on kinematic analysis and workspace optimization in the field of continuum parallel manipulators.

Alfonso Hernández has been full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Bilbao School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, since 1995. He has published a series of books and teaching monographs on Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines. He has developed, together with other professors, a free software, GIM, for analysis and design of mechanisms, with downloads in more than 500 institutions in about 90 different countries. He has more than 200 scientific publications, including books, book chapters, articles in international journals, conference papers and research monographs, highlighting those published in journals in the field of Robotics and Mechanisms. His research activity has been developed in the COMPMECH research group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).