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Luis Nagua is a robotics researcher specializing in soft robotics, cable-driven parallel mechanisms, and bio-inspired actuation systems. His work focuses on developing flexible, compliant robotic joints that mimic human-like movement, particularly for applications in human-robot interaction and assistive technologies. Nagua’s major contributions include the design and modeling of a novel soft robotic joint with two degrees of freedom (DOF), actuated by a cable-driven parallel mechanism (CDPM), which enables precise inclination and orientation control. He also advanced the development of a soft robotic neck capable of flexion, extension, and lateral bending, emulating the natural motion of the human cervical spine. His most-cited paper, “A New Approach of Soft Joint Based on a Cable-Driven Parallel Mechanism for Robotic Applications” (2021, 16 citations), introduces a test platform for evaluating joint performance, while his 2020 work on a soft robotic link test bench (11 citations) validates improved neck prototypes. Nagua’s research has been presented at the XXXIX Jornadas de Automática, and his iterative design approach—from initial proposals to refined prototypes—demonstrates a systematic contribution to soft robotics, with potential impacts on medical rehabilitation and collaborative robotics.