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Geng Li is a researcher whose work bridges mechanical design and robotic control, with a primary focus on compliant mechanisms and adaptive systems. His most influential contribution explores the multistable behaviors of Compliant Sarrus Mechanisms (CSMs), a class of overconstrained spatial mechanisms that offer unique motion capabilities for applications in precision instruments and robotics. This work, which has garnered 49 citations, simplifies complex mechanism analysis by decomposing the system into submechanisms, providing a foundational framework for designing multistable spatial structures. Li also advanced the field by demonstrating how compliant spherical linkages can be derived from planar designs using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model (PRBM), as shown in his spherical Young mechanism case study—a key step toward more sophisticated spatial compliant systems. In the domain of control, Li contributed to discrete-time adaptive control for robots, developing a gain tuning method that accounts for sampling period constraints, thereby improving stability and performance in real-world robotic applications. His work is notable for systematically extending compliant mechanism theory from planar to spatial configurations, offering practical design tools that continue to inform modern precision engineering and robotics research.