Omid Ahmadi Khiyavi received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2016, and his master’s degree from Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada, in December 2022. Before starting his studies at Ontario Tech University, he joined the CAST Laboratory, at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He worked as a Research Assistant at CAST for almost three years. In this period, he mostly focused on the design and fabrication of bioinspired robots such as aquatic and humanoid robots. In 2019, he moved to Japan to work as a Research Assistant at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. The goal was to design and fabricate a robotic system for handling food in food factories.