Amir Shapiro

Amir Shapiro received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1997, 2000, and 2004 respectively.

Currently he is a Lecturer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. On 2005-2006 he was a post doctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

His interests include locomotion of multi-limbed mechanisms in unstructured complex environments, navigation algorithms for multi-limbed robots, robot grasping design, control, and stability analysis, climbing robots, snake like robots, and multi-robot on-line motion planning.