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Ge Guo is a versatile robotics researcher whose career spans several decades of pioneering contributions across robotic manipulation, dexterous hand design, and control systems. His foundational work in the early 1990s established influential frameworks for multifingered robotic hand mechanisms, including an anthropomorphic nine-degree-of-freedom design (31 citations) and an optimized six-bar linkage finger mechanism intended for prosthetic and robotic applications (23 citations). These contributions helped shape the trajectory of dexterous end-effector engineering. Guo's research matured into sophisticated grasp planning and fingertip force analysis, developing decomposition models and stiffness characterizations that advanced the theoretical underpinning of robotic grasping systems. His most-cited work, a Global Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Controller for robotic manipulators (35 citations, 2006), demonstrated rigorous finite-time convergence guarantees — a significant milestone in nonlinear control theory for robotics. Complementing this, his state-PID feedback framework introduced an elegant pole-placement methodology with practical industrial relevance. In later years, Guo expanded into service robotics and multi-robot coordination, contributing a 3D object recognition framework for cluttered environments and a distributed gradient-free algorithm enabling simultaneous source localization and formation control. Across more than three decades, his interdisciplinary body of work reflects both theoretical depth and applied ingenuity, making him a meaningful contributor to modern robotics research.