Andrew J. Petruska received the dual B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and physics and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 2014. For the next four years, he was a Design Engineer with the rocket motor industry. In 2010 he enrolled with University of Utah and received an NSF IGERT Fellowship to study noncontact magnetic manipulation. His doctoral research culminated in the development of the first real-time reconfigurable magnetic manipulation system and the invention of its main component—the Omnimagnet. After completing the Ph.D. degree, he joined the Multiscale Robotics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, where he is currently investigating the magnetic manipulation of continuum devices.