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Acknowledgments

The research at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology was carried out
under a contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The editor would like to thank David Hanson, University of Texas at Dallas and Hanson
Robotics, Inc. for his drawing of the book cover page. Further, the editor would like to acknow-
ledge and express his appreciation to the following individuals who took the time to review various
book chapters. Their contribution is highly appreciated and it has helped to make this book of
significantly greater value to its readers. The 65 individuals who served as reviewers of chapters in
this book are:

Rajat Agrawal Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE
Tony Aponick Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA
Limor Bar-Cohen Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA
Jon Barnes Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow,
Scotland, U.K.
William Baumgartner Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
Peter J. Bentley University College London, London, U.K.
Reinhard Blickhan Science of Motion, Institute of Sportscience, Friedrich Schiller
University, Jena, Germany
Paul Calvert Department of Textile Sciences, Dartmouth, MA
Robert E. Cleland University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jack Cohen Newent, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
John Conte Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
Bob Dennis University of North Carolina, Department of Biomedical
Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC
Ezequiel Di Paolo Sussex University, Brighton, U.K.
Tammy Drezner California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Zvi Drezner California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Wolfgang Fink Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Greg Fischer Strategic Analysis, Inc., Arlington, VA
Robert A. Freitas Jr. Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Los Altos, CA
Udi Gazit University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Vincent Gott Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore,
MD

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