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Robert T. Kasumi is pioneering the future of robotics by challenging the very nature of how machines are built and sustained. His research focuses on two groundbreaking areas: **self-assembling robotic structures** and **robot metabolism**. Kasumi envisions a world where robots are no longer monolithic, closed systems, but instead can grow, heal, and adapt like living organisms. His 2024 paper, "Robot Links: Towards Self-Assembling Truss Robots," introduces modular, reconfigurable systems that can discretize a robot into replaceable, identical units, allowing for recovery from significant structural damage. This work directly addresses the limitations of today's robots, which cannot absorb new material to keep operating after damage. Building on this, his 2025 paper, "Robot Metabolism," proposes machines that can physically consume other machines to grow and develop—a radical step toward sustained survival and autonomous evolution. Though early in his career, with each paper already garnering 2 citations, Kasumi’s ideas are laying the conceptual foundation for a new class of adaptive, self-sustaining robots that could transform fields from space exploration to disaster response.