Georg Rauter (Member, IEEE) received the degree in mechanical engineering from TU-Graz, the degree in mathematical and mechanical modeling from MATMECA, Bordeaux, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from ETH Zurich. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Postdoc in rehabilitation robotics at ETH Zurich, University of Southern California, and the University of Zurich. In 2016, he commercialized the gait rehabilitation robot the FLOAT in collaboration with the company Lutz Medical Engineering and the Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Balgrist, Zurich. Since May 2016, he has been heading the BIROMED-Laboratory, as an Assistant Professor of medical robotics and mechatronics at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel. Since March 2022, he has been continuing to head the BIROMED-Laboratory, as an Associate Professor of surgical robotics. He has been the Chair of IFToMM Switzerland, since 2019, and an Associate Member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics, since 2020.