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Aske Bach Lassen is a leading researcher in the safety of collaborative and rehabilitation robotics, a field where human-robot interaction demands rigorous validation. His work focuses on bridging critical knowledge gaps in safety assessment, particularly for non-industrial applications like healthcare and agriculture. Lassen’s most influential contribution is the development of the COVR Toolkit, an online resource designed to democratize safety engineering for stakeholders with limited expertise. His highly cited papers, including “Safety Assessment of Rehabilitation Robots” (99 citations) and “Validating Safety in Human–Robot Collaboration” (98 citations), systematically review existing standards and identify gaps in best practices for power- and force-limited robots. By analyzing interlaboratory safety tests and proposing new perspectives on collaborative robot validation, Lassen has provided a framework for ensuring safe deployment across diverse domains. His work has been instrumental in moving safety from a reactive, adverse-event monitoring approach to a proactive, standards-based methodology. With over 240 total citations, Lassen’s research is essential reading for engineers and researchers developing interactive robotic systems, offering both practical tools and theoretical foundations for safe human-robot collaboration.