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Jens Golz is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of industrial automation, human-robot interaction, and open-source software development. He is best known as the creator of RoBO-2L, an open-source MATLAB toolbox designed to extend the offline programming capabilities of KUKA industrial robots. By bridging the gap between MATLAB's rich programming environment and the typically limited native command sets of industrial robots, Golz has made sophisticated robot control more accessible to researchers and engineers alike. His most-cited work, the 2016 introduction of RoBO-2L (20 citations), laid the foundation for a series of follow-on contributions, including a wireless multi-robot network interface tailored for Industry 4.0 applications and a dedicated internet platform supporting collaborative, cross-platform development. Beyond software tooling, Golz has demonstrated a talent for imaginative applied robotics, notably through his 2015 paper describing an autonomous chess-playing industrial robot that uses computer vision to interact with human opponents — a project that elegantly showcases complex perception and motion planning in action. With a cumulative citation count approaching 40, his contributions have carved out a meaningful niche in making industrial robotics more flexible, programmable, and open to innovation.