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Alberto Tellaeche is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot collaboration, multimodal interaction, and industrial automation. His research has significantly advanced how humans and collaborative robots — or "cobots" — communicate and work together safely in real-world manufacturing environments. Tellaeche has been particularly influential in developing semantic multimodal interaction frameworks that fuse voice, gesture, and contextual cues to make human-robot communication more natural and dependable, work that has collectively attracted over 100 citations across his most recognized publications. Beyond the technical dimension, Tellaeche has explored the human side of cobot adoption, investigating workers' concerns and expectations — a perspective that bridges engineering and organizational behavior and underscores his commitment to practical deployment rather than laboratory-only solutions. His contributions extend to gesture-based interaction systems, 6DOF object pose estimation for robotic manipulation, and reconfigurable robotic companions for CNC operations. Early in his career, he applied robotics to niche industrial sectors, including the European footwear manufacturing industry through the ROBOFOOT consortium. Taken together, his body of work reflects a consistent focus on making industrial robots safer, smarter, and genuinely collaborative — a vision increasingly central to the future of manufacturing.