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Hyunuk Seo is a robotics researcher whose work spans bio-inspired design, precision motor control, and agricultural automation. His most notable contribution is the development of a variable-stiffness–morphing wheel, inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet, which dramatically improves a robot’s ability to overcome obstacles while maintaining energy efficiency on flat terrain—a breakthrough with 25 citations since 2024. In the domain of electric motor control, Seo has developed an electrical parameter estimation method for surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors that accounts for voltage source inverter nonlinearity, enabling higher-performance motor control (11 citations). His applied robotics work includes analyzing the work efficiency of multiple heterogeneous robots for harvesting crops in smart greenhouses (8 citations), addressing the critical gap between single-robot harvesting studies and real-world greenhouse operations. Seo has also contributed to industrial automation through software development for laser welding of liquefied natural gas cargo tanks using mobile manipulators. His research uniquely bridges fundamental bio-inspired design with practical agricultural and industrial applications, demonstrating how robotic systems can be optimized for both mobility and task-specific performance in complex environments.