
Pablo López García was born in Asturias, Spain, in 1972. He obtained a master´s degree in industrial engineering with the Escuela Técnica Superior de
Ingeniería Industrial de Gijón, Spain, in 1998. He completed a doctorate with the Brubotics research institute of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
on the potential of planetary gear transmissions in human-robot interaction, in 2022.
Robotic devices—such as cobots, exoskeletons, prostheses, and humanoids—are designed to operate in environments that are shared with humans. These settings are often unpredictable, making human-centric movement a crucial requirement.