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Since 2003 he is an INRIA research scientist, and currently in the CO-PRIN project-team. His research interests are in the area of robotics, analysis, design, and calibration of parallel robots. More recently, he studies interval analysis and its applications to robotics, S'03-M'06) received the B.Eng. degree in mechatronics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), 2000. ,
01) is senior researcher at INRIA Sophia Antipolis -Mediterranee, where he leads the COPRIN project-team. His research interest are interval analysis (for the management of uncertainties in the design and control of robots), parallel robots and assistive robotics, Merlet was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and is currently Associate Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory and of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. He was General Chair of the 2007 IFToMM World Congress and of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference ,