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Pedro Miguel Bastos Soares is a roboticist whose work sits at the intersection of multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, and intelligent control architectures. His most recognized contributions stem from his long-standing involvement with the CAMBADA Middle Size robotic soccer team, a project that has served as a testbed for advancing cooperative perception, distributed decision-making, and robust mechanical design in dynamic environments. The team’s qualification paper for RoboCup’2013, which has garnered 3 citations, documents critical platform upgrades that pushed the boundaries of real-time coordination among autonomous agents. More recently, Soares has ventured into the frontier of explainable AI in robotics. His 2025 paper on *Interpretable Robot Control via Structured Behavior Trees and Large Language Models* (2 citations) proposes a novel framework that marries the modular clarity of behavior trees with the contextual flexibility of LLMs, enabling non-expert users to interact with robots through natural language. This work addresses a central challenge in HRI: making robot control both intuitive and transparent. By focusing on interpretability, Soares is helping to bridge the gap between complex autonomous systems and the humans who need to trust and collaborate with them. His research trajectory—from competitive soccer robots to accessible, language-driven control—demonstrates a consistent commitment to making intelligent machines more capable and more understandable.