Jindong Tan has 25+ years of experience in the design and control of collaborative robots in both academia and industry. He was a co-founder of a collaborative robot startup targeting industrial applications. Tan is a Co-Founder of Azure Medical Innovation, providing customized collaborative and AI robots for surgical applications, and developing surgical systems for dental implant and teeth crowning procedures. He is also a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.