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Raphael Grimm is a leading roboticist whose work centers on humanoid robotics, human-robot collaboration, and dexterous manipulation. He is best known as the principal architect of the ARMAR-6 humanoid robot, a high-performance platform designed for safe, collaborative maintenance tasks in industrial environments. His research on ARMAR-6 (with over 150 combined citations) has established a benchmark for integrating hardware, software, and functional architectures that enable robots to work alongside humans in real-world scenarios. Grimm has made seminal contributions to affordance-based grasping and manipulation, developing frameworks that allow robots to identify interaction possibilities in cluttered, unstructured settings. His visuo-haptic grasping pipeline, which fuses visual and tactile perception using Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces and deep learning, has been widely cited for its novel approach to handling unknown objects. More recently, he has advanced reactive grasping with in-finger vision and FPGA-accelerated CNNs, as well as tactile feedback systems for soft hands. His work on resource-aware motion planning addresses the critical challenge of allocating computational resources in complex robotic systems. Grimm’s research consistently pushes the boundaries of autonomous manipulation, making him a pivotal figure in bringing humanoid robots from the lab into practical, collaborative applications.