Dr Nan Ma is a Research Associate with the Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K. He came to UK of the University of Nottingham from 2016 as a visiting student for two years. After his graduation of PhD, He worked in the University of Nottingham as the Research Fellow for the Innovate of UK supported project (CHIMEAR, Project Grant: £2,413,639), developing a long stiffening continuum robot (length: 1.5 m, diameter: 12.6 mm, expanded dimension of stiffening section: 120 mm from nature dimension of 13 mm) for the engine combustor inspection and maintenance (Roll-Royce, Trent 900). After that, he worked at the Lancaster University as the Research Associate for leading the EPSRC supported project (ASUNDER, Project Grant: £249,890), developing a dual-arm robotic system for the sample retrieval from the underwater nuclear environment (Japan, Fukushima Daiichi).