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Alexandre Campo is a pioneering researcher in swarm robotics whose work has fundamentally shaped how scientists understand and engineer collective robotic behavior. His research spans decentralized multi-robot systems, bio-inspired algorithms, and heterogeneous swarm architectures, with a consistent focus on enabling groups of simple robots to accomplish complex tasks through emergent, self-organized behavior. Campo's most celebrated contribution is the Swarmanoid project, which introduced a groundbreaking framework for heterogeneous robotic swarms featuring decentralized control and local communication — a paper that has garnered over 400 citations and remains a landmark reference in the field. His work on path formation, artificial pheromone-based navigation, and multi-foraging strategies drew directly from biological systems to solve real-world coordination challenges, collectively accumulating hundreds of additional citations. His involvement in CoCoRo extended swarm principles into underwater autonomous vehicle systems, broadening the field's practical horizons. Equally significant is Campo's technical contributions to swarm infrastructure: his open E-puck Range & Bearing board and localization sensor designs provided the community with accessible, reproducible hardware tools that empowered subsequent generations of swarm robotics research. His body of work reflects both theoretical depth and engineering pragmatism, making him an indispensable figure for any student entering collective robotics.