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Mick Wallis is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, ethics, and performance studies. His most impactful work, the 2017 paper "Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world" (193 citations), established a foundational ethical framework for responsible robotics. Drawing from principles first drafted in 2010, this work has profoundly influenced global policy and design standards for autonomous systems. Wallis’s contributions extend into human-robot interaction, where he explores embodied communication and artificial personality. His 2009 study "Embodied conversations: performance and the design of a robotic dancing partner" (25 citations) and the 2008 paper "Building artificial personalities" (5 citations) demonstrate his unique approach to engineering expressive, dance-capable robots like *SpiderCrab*. This work, developed under the EPSRC/AHRC "Designing for the Twenty-first Century" initiative, leverages performance knowledge to create robots that communicate through movement and emergent behavior. With a career spanning ethics, performance, and robotics design, Wallis has shaped how we think about regulating robots in society while advancing the technical and artistic frontiers of human-robot collaboration.