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Prasad Potluri is a textile and composites engineer whose research spans robotic automation, fabric testing, and advanced composite manufacturing. Working prominently from UMIST and continuing across his career, Potluri has pioneered the integration of robotics into textile processing, developing automated systems capable of conducting comprehensive mechanical fabric tests without human intervention — eliminating operator error and enabling seamless production-line integration. His most cited work (2003, 44 citations) demonstrated automated composite manufacture through handling, property measurement, and lay-up simulation, establishing a foundational framework for intelligent composite production. His early contributions in the 1990s introduced flexible robotic test systems for low-stress fabric characterisation, work that helped bridge traditional textile manufacturing with precision engineering. Potluri later turned his expertise toward textile preforming for fibre-reinforced composites, exploring novel architectures produced through Jacquard loom technologies and multi-objective optimisation to overcome conventional manufacturing constraints. His investigations into stitch-bonded sandwich composites further expanded understanding of damage tolerance in non-crimp fabric structures. Collectively, his body of work positions him as a key contributor to elevating the textile industry into high-value technical and engineering applications, particularly in the rapidly growing composites sector.