Meet the editor

Maki K. Habib gained his Ph.D. in engineering science in intelligent and autonomous robots from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is a full professor of robotics and mechatronics in the Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. His main areas of research interest are autonomous vehicles, human adaptive and friendly mechatronics, service robots and

humanitarian demining, autonomous aerial vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles, tele-cooperation, distributed teleoperation and collaborative control, flexible automation, ambient intelligence, biomimetic and biomedical robots, and Industry 4.0, including IoT, CPS, WSNs, and intelligent control.

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