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Shih‐Tin Lin is a pioneering researcher in robot force control and compliant motion, with a career focused on making industrial robots more adaptive and intelligent. His work bridges classical control theory with modern computational intelligence, particularly through the integration of fuzzy logic and neural networks into force control frameworks. Lin’s most influential contribution, the 1998 paper on hierarchical fuzzy force control (47 citations), introduced a novel architecture that combines high-level fuzzy reasoning with existing low-level motion control, enabling robots to adapt to varying contact conditions without precise models. His 1992 work on identifying unknown payload and environmental parameters (20 citations) laid the groundwork for robust compliant motion, while his 1997 force-sensing approach using Kalman filtering (20 citations) improved real-time accuracy. Lin also advanced dual-arm robot coordination through impedance control with on-line neural network compensation (17 citations) and position-based fuzzy force control (16 citations). His research has been instrumental in making industrial robots safer and more versatile in contact tasks, earning him recognition as a key figure in the evolution of intelligent robotic manipulation.