Hervé Mathieu received the engineering degree in 1988 from the École Centrale de Lille, France. Since 1988, he is a research engineer at INRIA where he had appointments with INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and with INRIA Rhône-Alpes. Hervé Mathieu’s expertise includes hardware and software integration in both the computer vision and the robotics domains. During the year 2002, he was a research engineer at the Center for Computer Integrated Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore USA). While there he worked on robotics systems used in computer aided surgery and radiology.