Jacob Rosen

Jacob Rosen co-developed RAVENTM at the University of Washington, where he served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, with adjunct appointments with the Departments of Surgery, and Mechanical Engineering. He then continued to advance the robot’s design as a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of California – Santa Cruz (UCSC) where he directs the Bionics lab. His research interests focus on medical robotics, biorobotics, human centered robotics, surgical robotics, wearable robotics, rehabilitation robotics, neural control, and human-machine interface. Jacob received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to graduate study, he served as an officer in the IDF studying human-machine interfaces. During his graduate work, he developed and studied the EMG based powered Exoskeleton at the Biomechanics Laboratory. During the same period of time he held a position in a startup company developing innovative orthopedic spine/ pelvis implants. Jacob has developed several key systems in the field of medical robotics in addition to RAVEN including the Blue and the Red Dragon for minimally invasive surgical skill evaluation that is commercialized by Simulab as the EDGE, several generations of upper and lower limb exoskeletons and most recently the Exo-UL7 – two wearable robotic systems. He is a co-author of 70 manuscripts in the field of medical robotics and a co-author and co-editor of a book entitled “Surgical Robotics – Systems, Applications, and Visions” published by Springer.