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Fairul Azni Jafar is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, autonomous navigation, and emotional intelligence in machines. His research explores how robots can perceive human emotional states to enable more instinctive collaboration, while also developing robust vision-based systems for mobile robot self-localization and navigation. Jafar’s most cited work, “Robot and human teacher” (11 citations), examines the role of robots in education and methods for measuring teaching effectiveness. His foundational studies on human emotional state detection in collaborative settings (8 and 3 citations) address a critical challenge: enabling robots to respond intuitively to human feelings during interaction. In autonomous navigation, Jafar has contributed visual feature-based localization methods (5 citations) and motion controllers that allow mobile robots to identify their position and follow paths in corridor environments. His work extends to Kansei haptic sensing technology, exploring how robots can interpret human touch emotions. Through these contributions, Jafar advances the vision of socially aware robots that can navigate physical spaces and respond to human emotional cues—a crucial step toward seamless human-robot collaboration in education, manufacturing, and everyday life.