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Gabriel Waibel is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous field robotics, terrain-aware navigation, multi-robot systems, and neuromorphic computing. He has made significant contributions to the challenge of deploying legged and heterogeneous robot teams in extreme, unstructured environments — from subterranean tunnels to planetary analog landscapes. His 2023 study on scientific exploration with legged robots in challenging planetary analogs has garnered 104 citations, establishing him as a key voice in the next generation of planetary exploration robotics. His 2022 work on terrain traversability estimation (51 citations) advances how robots perceive and interpret complex off-road environments for safer, more intelligent path planning. Waibel was part of Team CERBERUS, which won the prestigious DARPA Subterranean Challenge in 2021 — one of the most demanding robotics competitions ever organized — contributing to technical work that has been recognized across multiple publications. He has also explored marsupial walking-and-flying robotic systems for collaborative exploration, as well as early-stage neuromorphic computing for onboard robot control. Collectively, his research addresses some of the most pressing frontiers in autonomous robotics, making his work essential reading for students pursuing mobile robotics, field autonomy, or space exploration systems.