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Hui Xie is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work sits at the cutting edge of miniature soft robotics, micro/nanoscale manipulation, and magnetically actuated systems. His research has fundamentally advanced how small-scale robots are designed, controlled, and deployed for biomedical applications, with a particular focus on reconfigurability, multimodal locomotion, and minimally invasive medicine. Xie's most celebrated contributions include the development of shape-transformable liquid metal nanomachines (256 citations) — among the first nanoscale machines capable of transformation and self-repair — and reconfigurable ferrofluid droplet robots (245 citations) capable of programmable deformation for navigating confined biological spaces. His magnetic slime robot (187 citations) further expanded the toolkit of soft robotic architectures by bridging elastomer- and fluid-based approaches. Beyond magnetic systems, his arthropod-inspired piezoelectric millirobot (120 citations) demonstrated remarkable miniaturization without sacrificing agility or speed. Xie's impact extends across scales: his flexible robotic system for nano-to-microscale manipulation (94 citations) established early foundations for precision assembly, while his recent magnetically steered continuum robot (101 citations) advances transluminal surgical robotics. Collectively, his work commands hundreds of citations, marking him as an influential figure shaping the future of intelligent miniature robotic systems.