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Kengo Yamaguchi is a roboticist whose work centers on the design of dexterous, robust robot hands for industrial and dual-arm manipulation. His major contributions lie in developing innovative grippers that bridge the gap between power and precision grasping. His most cited work, the iGRIPP 4 (2013, 49 citations), introduced a robot hand with suction mechanisms at each fingertip, enabling it to stably grasp diverse objects and perform dexterous tasks with a simple design. Building on this, Yamaguchi created the uGRIPP (2015, 24 citations), an underactuated hand for dual-arm manipulation that achieves both adaptive and pinch grasps through a novel linkage system. He further advanced this line of research by analyzing precision grip forces in uGRIPP (2017, 12 citations), providing critical performance data. Beyond grasping, Yamaguchi has contributed to industrial automation with a handling device for caging and aligning circular objects (2011, 22 citations), and early in his career, he explored mobile robot control using linear visual servoing (2006, 5 citations). His work is notable for its practical focus on simple, reliable mechanisms that enhance robotic dexterity, making his designs highly relevant for factory automation and collaborative robotics.