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Chia-Wen Kuo is a leading researcher at the intersection of collaborative robotics, perception, and industrial automation. Her work centers on enabling robots to perceive and interact with their environment more intelligently, with a particular focus on multi-agent systems and 3D object recognition. Kuo’s most impactful contribution is the introduction of collaborative perception through her paper “Who2com: Collaborative Perception via Learnable Handshake Communication” (2020, 164 citations), which pioneered a learnable handshake protocol that allows robots to selectively share observations with neighboring agents, dramatically improving perception accuracy in dynamic, multi-robot settings. This work has become foundational in the field of cooperative robotics. Earlier, she made significant strides in manufacturing automation, developing a service-oriented multiagent system for a seven-degree-of-freedom robot arm capable of dynamic obstacle avoidance and 3D object recognition (2016, 57 citations). Her model-based approach to fetching random 3D objects in factory settings (2015) and her scalable modular architecture for object acquisition (2015) have advanced the practical deployment of cyber–physical systems in industry. Kuo’s research bridges theoretical innovation and real-world application, with her work on learnable communication reshaping how robots collaborate in complex environments.