Fuxin Du graduated from Shandong University with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, an M.S. degree in mechatronic engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in robot control. He is currently working as an Associate Professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering in Shandong University and is leading a research group on new stiffness-variable continuum robots for minimally invasive surgery with the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. His research mainly focuses on mechanical dynamics, industrial manipulators, and medical robots.