Zhongkui Wang received his Ph.D. degree in robotics from Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 and 2012–2014, he was a Research Associate and a Postdoctoral Fellow, respectively, with Ritsumeikan University. During his postdoc, he visited ETH Zurich for 6 months as a visiting scholar. In 2014-2019, he was an Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan University. In 2019, he became an Associate Professor with Ritsumeikan University. His research interests mainly include soft robotics, biomedical engineering, and automation in the food industry and agriculture. He received the Best Paper Award on Robotics at the 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Realtime Computing and Robotics, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, and an Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of RSJ and JSME.