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Rhama Dwiputra is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of benchmarking, industrial automation, and human-robot interaction. A key contributor to the EU-funded RoCKIn project, Dwiputra helped design and implement the RoCKIn@Home and RoCKIn@Work challenges—competitions that not only advanced cognitive systems and robotics but also raised public awareness of European robotics innovation, with the former paper accumulating 13 citations. In the industrial domain, Dwiputra co-developed a benchmarking testbed for the Factory of the Future, a physical installation enabling systematic study of mobile manipulators integrated with automation equipment (9 citations). Demonstrating technical depth, Dwiputra created a Modelica model for the youBot manipulator, allowing detailed simulation of motors and controllers beyond typical environment-focused robotics simulations (5 citations). Notably, Dwiputra also explored natural user interfaces, designing a haptic interface for controlling domestic service robots through physical touch—a move toward more intuitive human-robot collaboration. Through these contributions, Dwiputra has helped shape how robots are evaluated, simulated, and intuitively controlled, bridging the gap between laboratory research and real-world deployment.