Carmel Majidi is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to Joining CMU, he was a post doctoral fellow in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory (2009-2011) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (2007-2009). His career mission is to discover materials, hardware architectures, and fabrication methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms and be safe for contact with humans.