Gary M. Bone received the B.Sc. (Ap.Sc.) degree in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University, Canada, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from McMaster University, Canada, in 1986, 1988, and 1993, respectively.

He joined the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, in 1994, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His current research interests include robot design and control; collaborative robots (Cobots); 3D machine vision for robots; robot learning from demonstration; soft pneumatic actuators; hybrid pneumatic-electric actuators; and advanced control algorithms for pneumatic and hybrid actuators.