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Gongliang Guo is a pioneering researcher in robotic hand mechanisms and prosthetic design, with a career focused on creating anthropomorphic, highly functional artificial hands. His most influential work, "A Single-DOF Multi-Function Prosthetic Hand Mechanism With an Automatically Variable Speed Transmission" (1992, 18 citations), introduced a novel three-fingered hand that mimics human finger motion using a gear-constrained five-bar linkage, achieving remarkable dexterity with just one degree of freedom. Guo further advanced this field by developing an optimal six-bar linkage for a three-jointed anthropomorphic finger (1992, 8 citations), enabling natural fingertip displacement. In parallel, he made significant contributions to robot control and grasp planning, including a motion optimizability measure for redundant manipulators (2002, 8 citations) that eliminates the need for pseudoinverse Jacobians, and a dynamic grasp planning method based on asymptotic stability (1996, 6 citations). His work on distance and positioning accuracy for robotic manipulators (2002, 2 citations) also provided calibration techniques using singular value decomposition. With a career spanning from the early 1990s to the 2000s, Guo’s research remains foundational for modern prosthetic hands and dexterous robotic manipulation.