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Guangbo Hao is a prolific mechanical engineer and robotics researcher whose work spans compliant mechanisms, reconfigurable robotics, continuum robots, and autonomous inspection systems for challenging environments. His foundational contributions to compliant mechanism design are evidenced by a widely cited 2016 review on nonlinear modeling methods and a landmark survey on reconfigurable modular robots that same year, the latter accumulating 87 citations and remaining a key reference for researchers entering the field. His 2021 survey on compliant continuum robots, with 63 citations, further established him as a leading voice in flexible, high-degree-of-freedom robotic systems capable of navigating constrained environments. In recent years, Hao has expanded his research toward robotics applications in renewable energy infrastructure, authoring highly impactful reviews on UAV-based inspection of floating offshore wind turbines and robotic operations and maintenance for offshore wind farms, together accumulating nearly 100 citations. His work on underground structure inspection via UAVs similarly addresses critical real-world safety challenges. Complementing these applied pursuits, his design studies of compliant universal joints, lockable prismatic joints, origami-inspired mechanisms, and passive stiffness-self-adjustable systems demonstrate sustained innovation in precision mechanical design. Across his career, Hao has built an impressive body of work bridging theoretical mechanism analysis with urgent engineering applications.