Giancarlo Ferrigno received his MSc degree in Electronic Engineering in 1983 and his PhD degree in Bioengineering in 1990 from the Politecnico di Milano where he teaches 'Medical Instrumentation' and 'Medical Robotics and Technologies for Surgery - Lab' for the Bachelor and the MSc in biomedical engineering respectively. He is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano and he is author of more than 100 full papers on international Scientific journals and 16 patents in the biomedical field. He is funder and coordinator of the Medical Robotics and Neuroengineering Laboratory (NearLab - www.nearlab.polimi.it). He has been PI of several projects funded by Italian Space Agency, Italian Institute of Technology, industrial partners in the biomedical field and coordinated three EU funded projects in the 7th FP: Robocast (strep), Mundus (strep) and Active (IP).