Gérard Poisson is a Professor in the PRISME Laboratory, Orléans University, France. His research interests concern robotics design and control, in the topics of mechanical design, mechatronics integration, robotics perception, teleoperation, and comanipulation. He has participated in projects in the fields of industrial, mobile, and medical robotics, and more specifically in robotized tele-echography. He has supervised 22 PhD students.