Oscar Altuzarra was born in Bilbao in 1971, received his M. Sc. Mechanical Engineering degree from the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 1999. He spent a year at the Coventry University in Coventry (U.K.) in 1993 where he obtained a Diploma in higher studies. He is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). His research interests are theoretical kinematics, mechanisms, design of parallel kinematic machines, robotics, and computational solutions to complex mechanical problems in the field of the theory of mechanisms. He gives lectures on Applied Mechanics at Graduate levels, and Kinematic Analysis at Postgraduate levels. He is involved in several academic as well as industrial projects related to the field of mechanisms and robotics. Regarding recent research issues, he has developed several new morphologies of parallel machines for pick and place operations, and solar trackers with high tilting capabilities.