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Manish Goel is a robotics researcher whose work has focused on fault tolerance and failure management in kinematically redundant robotic manipulators, with particular emphasis on applications in hostile and hazardous environments. His research addresses a critical challenge in applied robotics: how robots can continue to operate effectively when joint failures occur, even when those failures go undetected or unidentified by the robot's controller. Goel's most influential contribution, "Failure Tolerant Teleoperation of a Kinematically Redundant Manipulator" (2003), garnered 34 citations and provided experimental validation of strategies for maintaining robot performance despite locked-joint failures in teleoperated systems. His complementary theoretical work on analyzing unidentified locked-joint failures, published in both conference and journal formats, further extended understanding of post-fault robot behavior and collectively accumulated 30 additional citations. Early work dating to 1998 laid the conceptual groundwork for tolerating undetected faults without relying solely on traditional detection-and-correction pipelines. Across his publication record, Goel has accumulated roughly 82 citations, reflecting sustained scholarly engagement with his ideas. His research remains relevant to the design of resilient robotic systems deployed in nuclear, deep-sea, and space exploration contexts, where maintenance and repair are impractical and operational continuity is paramount.