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Marc Arsicault is a French robotics researcher whose work spans microrobotics, surgical robotics, collaborative robots, and bioinspired systems. Based at the PPRIME Institute, University of Poitiers, he has made significant contributions to robot design across medical, industrial, and biomimetic domains over two decades of research. His early work on in-pipe microrobots (2002, 38 citations), conducted within a CNRS microrobotics consortium, addressed locomotion challenges in miniaturized exploration systems. He subsequently turned to medical robotics, contributing to minimally invasive surgical robot design through motion-capture-informed methodologies and spherical parallel manipulators used as master devices for surgical teleoperation. His development of a cobot integrated with a prismatic compliant joint for Doppler sonography (2020, 26 citations) directly addresses clinician health by reducing musculoskeletal strain — a practically impactful innovation in medical human-robot interaction. Arsicault has also pioneered safety mechanisms for both rotary and prismatic compliant joints in cobots, ensuring intrinsically safe physical human-robot collaboration. More recently, his bioinspired research produced novel cable-driven snake robots and aquatic locomotion systems, advancing biomechanical understanding through controllable robotic analogs. With over 200 cumulative citations, his interdisciplinary portfolio reflects a consistent commitment to translating fundamental robotics research into real-world applications.