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Pablo Budde gen. Dohmann is a leading researcher in cooperative multi-robot manipulation and physical human-robot interaction, with a focus on distributed control and wearable haptic interfaces. His most cited work (81 citations) introduces a novel distributed control framework with event-triggered communication for cooperative manipulation, elegantly dividing tasks into object trajectory tracking and grasp maintenance to address accuracy and robustness challenges. He has made significant contributions to estimating unknown object dynamics in human-robot manipulation tasks (31 citations), where accurate dynamic parameter knowledge is critical for natural interaction and preventing disturbance to human partners. Budde gen. Dohmann is also pioneering human-robot team interaction through wearable haptics (25 citations), enabling a single human operator to teleoperate robot teams for cooperative manipulation of heavy objects in remote or dangerous environments. His work addresses the fundamental asymmetry in human-robot team teleoperation, where robots have superior sensing but humans excel at planning and adaptation. With over 150 total citations, his research is advancing the frontier of human-multi-robot systems for cooperative tasks in dynamic, unstructured settings.