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Robin Neuhaus is a design researcher whose work sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), social robotics, and speculative design. With a growing body of scholarship accumulating over 55 citations, Neuhaus has emerged as a distinctive voice interrogating how humans form meaningful relationships with artificial counterparts—from chatbots and voice interfaces to domestic and social robots. His most influential contribution, "Otherware needs Otherness" (2020, 17 citations), challenges HCI's longstanding ideal of embodied interaction by introducing the concept of "otherware"—technologies that demand an entirely different relational framework between humans and machines. This theoretical provocation has resonated widely within the field. Neuhaus further developed these ideas through a cluster of 2022 publications, including "Meaningful Futures with Robots" (16 citations) and "How to Design Robots with Superpowers" (10 citations), where he argues compellingly that robots should complement rather than replace human workers, drawing on psychological strengths to foster genuine collaboration. Notably, Neuhaus also champions design fiction as an essential methodology, urging researchers and technologists to engage imagination—not only engineering precision—when envisioning the robots of tomorrow. His work offers students and practitioners a humanistic counterweight to purely technical approaches in robotics and interaction design.