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Magno Guedes is a robotics and automation researcher whose work bridges the gap between industrial manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and intelligent systems. His primary contributions lie in developing robotic teams and autonomous platforms for complex, real-world environments. Notably, Guedes pioneered the use of aerial-ground robotic teams for sediment sampling in estuarine mudflats, a challenging task that combines multi-robot coordination with environmental science—a line of work that has garnered over 20 citations across two related papers. He also led the development of ARES-III, a versatile all-terrain robot designed for robust outdoor operations in surveillance and service applications. In the industrial domain, Guedes has advanced energy efficiency through event-driven interoperable ecosystems for manufacturing, and more recently, cloud-based machine learning to predict energy consumption in automotive spot welding (2023). His work on online self-reconfigurable robot navigation and saliency-based obstacle detection for off-road vehicles further demonstrates his focus on adaptive, autonomous systems. With over 70 total citations and a portfolio spanning from 2009 to 2023, Guedes exemplifies a researcher dedicated to deploying intelligent robotics in heterogeneous, demanding environments.