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Felix Mauch is a roboticist focused on enabling safe, efficient, and intuitive human-robot collaboration. His research centers on real-time motion planning, collision avoidance, and service robotics, with a strong emphasis on leveraging GPU acceleration for computational efficiency. Mauch’s most impactful work, “Anticipate your surroundings” (27 citations), introduced a proactive collision detection system that connects RGB-D motion prediction with motion primitive planning via voxel swept-volume calculations, allowing robots to avoid collision-prone situations in shared workspaces. He further advanced autonomous manipulation with his work on GPU-accelerated online grasp planning from in-hand sensor pointclouds. Notably, Mauch demonstrated the real-world application of these principles with the “BratWurst Bot” (12 citations), a service robot deployed outside the lab to autonomously grill and serve sausages at public events—a compelling example of bringing adaptive robotic systems from research into everyday life. His work on generating human-like pointing motions for humanoid robots by combining motor primitives also showcases his interest in biomimetic control. Through these contributions, Mauch has established himself as a key figure in making robots more perceptive, responsive, and practically deployable in dynamic human environments.