Prof. dr. ir. Bram Vanderborght received the degree in the study of Mechanical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2003. In May 2007 he received his PhD in Applied Science. The focus of his research was the use of adaptable compliance of pneumatic artificial muscles in the dynamically balanced biped Lucy. In May-June 2006 he performed research on the humanoids robot HRP-2 at the Joint Japanese/French Robotics Laboratory (JRL) in AIST, Tsukuba (Japan). From October 2007-April 2010 he worked as post-doc researcher at IIT (Italy) on locomotion and compliant actuation. Since October 2009, he has been appointed as professor at the VUB. He is member of the Young Academy of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. His research interests includes cognitive and physical human robot interaction, robot assisted therapy, humanoids and rehabilitation robotics with core technology of using variable impedance actuators.