Primary Job Title Director, Technion Biorobotics & Biomechanics Lab Primary Organization 
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Location Haifa, Hefa, Israel Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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Wolf earned all his academic degrees from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion I.I.T. In 2002, Dr. Wolf joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a researcher, at the Biomedical Robotics Lab. He also held a research faculty position at the Institute for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (ICAOS) at the
Western Pennsylvania Hospital and was an adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh. In March of 2006, Dr. Wolf joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion, where he founded and became the director of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab (BRML). The scope of work done in the BRML provides the framework for fundamental theories in kinematics biomechanics and mechanism design, with applications in biomechanics, medical robotics and biorobotics.
Dr. Wolf’s career in medical robotics started with his Ph.D. work, which focused on the kinematics of parallel mechanism and how they could assist surgeons during spinal operations (resulting in the SpineAssist system). Dr. Wolf then expanded on these ideas to develop a Haptic controlled Mini Bone Attached Robotic System (MBARS) for bony surface scanning and to assist orthopedic surgeons to prepare the bone surface to insert knee implants. Dr. Wolf’s collaboration with Howie Choset resulted in many snake robot devices for applications ranging from urban search and rescue to medicine (HARP).
Dr. Wolf’s current work focuses on gait analysis, virtual reality rehabilitation, and biomechanics modeling. He has many papers published in prestigious journals in kinematics, robotics and biomechanics, and has won best paper awards in robotics.
