PhD in Industrial Engineering and emeritus professor of architecture and computer science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He is advisor to the Robotics and Vision Group at the CREB-UPC. From 1991 to 2006 he was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. His current research focuses on robotic surgery.