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Andry Tanoto is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, and disaster response technologies. His most influential contributions emerge from the intersection of swarm robotics and emergency management, most notably his 2008 analysis of human-robot swarm interaction in firefighting scenarios, which has garnered 75 citations and remains a foundational reference for researchers designing collaborative human-robot teams in high-stakes environments. Complementing this, his work on mobile ad-hoc network infrastructure for multi-robot systems in disaster scenarios (40 citations) addressed the critical challenge of maintaining reliable communication in infrastructure-depleted environments. Tanoto also made significant strides in long-term human-robot relationships through the FaceBots project, which integrated face recognition, natural language dialogue, and social media data to create more meaningful and sustained human-robot interactions — a forward-thinking concept that accumulated over 50 citations across multiple publications. His development of the Teleworkbench platform provided the robotics community with a reproducible, teleoperated experimental environment for benchmarking navigation and multi-robot algorithms, demonstrating his commitment to rigorous, comparable scientific methodology. Across his body of work, Tanoto has consistently bridged practical robotic applications with deeper questions about how humans and robots can effectively collaborate.