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Guangping Wu is a pioneering researcher in the field of bio-inspired microrobotics, with a primary focus on developing miniature robots driven by piezoelectric actuators. His work centers on creating insect- and fish-scale robots that achieve high-speed, controllable locomotion while overcoming fundamental challenges in miniaturization, waterproofing, and load capacity. Wu’s major contributions include the design of a fish-like underwater miniature robot capable of high-speed and controllable locomotion (16 citations), a piezoelectrically driven microrobot employing a novel monolithic spatial parallel mechanism as its hip joint (9 citations), and a miniature quadrupedal robot weighing just 1.8 g with a body length of 4.6 cm (5 citations). His most notable achievement is an insect-scale crawling robot that can carry an extraordinary load of 100 times its own weight (3 citations), demonstrating unprecedented payload capacity for such small systems. With a total of over 33 citations across his most-cited works, all published in 2024, Wu is rapidly establishing himself as a rising star in microrobotics, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in autonomous, agile, and robust miniature machines.