Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a Senior Research Scientist and Group Supervisor (http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/) at JPL. He co-edited and co-authored 7 books, (co)authored over 360 publications, (co)chaired 44 conferences, and has 22 registered patents. He challenged scientists worldwide to develop a robotic arm driven by artificial muscles to wrestle with humans and win and held contests in 2005 and 2006. He received his PhD in 1979 from the Hebrew University, Israel. His accomplishments earned him two NASA Honor Award Medals, two SPIE's Lifetime Achievement Awards, and many other honors and awards as well as Fellow of two technical societies: ASNT and SPIE.