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Nihar Niraj Garg is pioneering the future of robotics by drawing inspiration from biology. His research focuses on creating self-assembling, reconfigurable, and metabolically active machines—robots that can heal, grow, and adapt by consuming and incorporating materials from their environment. In his 2024 work "Robot Links: Towards Self-Assembling Truss Robots," Garg introduced modular truss-based systems that can autonomously reconfigure their own structure, moving beyond the limitations of today’s monolithic robots. His visionary 2025 paper "Robot Metabolism" proposes a radical new paradigm: machines that can physically grow by absorbing other machines, enabling sustained survival, self-repair, and material recycling in unstructured environments. Though early in his career, Garg’s ideas have already garnered attention (2 citations each), marking him as a rising thought leader in adaptive robotics. His work challenges the very definition of a robot, pushing toward a future where machines are not built, but grown—capable of evolving and surviving like living organisms.