Francisco Yumbla received his degree in Electrical Engineering, with a specialty in Electronics and Industrial Automation, from the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the area of robotics and mechatronics at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea, in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Engineering Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University. In 2022, he joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Production Sciences, ESPOL, as a Research Professor. His research interests are autonomous vehicles, the manipulation of robotic arms, the design of robots and manipulators, and Artificial Intelligence.

Emiliano Quinones Yumbla received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 2023, both from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering Technologies, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina, PR. His research interests include the design and control of wearable soft robots and sensors.

Erick Mendoza is a Mechatronics Engineering student at Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His research interests lie in the fields of quadruped robotics, human-based robotics, robot manipulators, and autonomous navigation. At the RAMEL laboratory, he has actively contributed to projects involving robotic grippers, robotic manipulators, and quadruped robots. In 2024, he presented a paper on a scaled educational robot at the ETCM conference. As an active member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) section, Erick continues to explore the frontiers of robotics and mechatronics.

Cristobal Lara earned his degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2023. In early 2023, he contributed to robotics and AI research as an intern at IRIDIA, an Artificial Intelligence lab within the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, where he developed prototypes of mobile robots for swarm robotics. Throughout his studies, he also held leadership roles in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) student chapter, serving as Vice President in 2021 and President in 2022, where he organized events to advance practical knowledge in robotics and automation. His research interests include robotics, automation, and the integration of software solutions for intelligent systems.

Javier Pagalo received his degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2023. He is currently a Technical Assistant from Mechanics and Electrical Department on a Construction Company. His research interests include mechatronic system design, manipulation of robotic arms, and process automation.

Efrain Teran received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador, in 2010. He obtained his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2014, working on research in mobile robotics and control. He has worked in machine design for the construction and pile industry. Currently, he is the director of the Mechatronics program at ESPOL. His research interests include mobile robotics, biomechatronics, machine element design and simulation, and reinforcement learning.

Redhwan Algabri’s research interests lie primarily in intelligent robotics, including person tracking and identification by mobile robots, machine learning and deep learning techniques for image processing (including detection, segmentation, object pose estimation, and classification of objects), and trajectory prediction and localization of robots.

Myeongyun Doh received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. He is currently pursuing a combined Master’s/Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. His academic and research interests include optimal control, mechanism design, and autonomous systems. His work involves studying model-based control algorithms, such as model predictive control (MPC) for autonomous vehicles, and exploring applications of autonomous systems in industrial settings, including palletizing tasks in logistics.

Tuan Luong received the B.Sc. degree in Mechatronics from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2011, and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea in 2021. After graduation, he worked as a lecturer at the Thai Nguyen University of Technology. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Engineering Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. His research interests include modeling and motion control of manipulators, mobile robot control as well as machine learning applications.

Hyungpil Moon received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2005. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, he joined the Faculty of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, where he is currently Professor. He is also the chair of the department of Intelligent Robotics. His current research interests include robotic manipulation, SLAM, and polymer-based sensor and actuators.