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Roderich Gros is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and modular reconfigurable systems, whose work pushes the boundaries of what simple, resource-constrained robots can achieve collectively. His most influential contribution is the occlusion-based cooperative transport strategy, published in 2015 with 177 citations, which demonstrated how miniature robots significantly smaller than an object can transport it by pushing only where their line-of-sight to the goal is blocked—a fully decentralized, elegant solution. Gros is also known for pioneering "computation-free" swarm control, as seen in his 2018 and 2019 papers on consensus and spatial coverage, which show that swarms of anonymous robots with no arithmetic computation, no communication, and only a single bit of memory can still solve complex coordination tasks. His work on turn-minimizing multirobot coverage (2019, 37 citations) addresses mission time optimization, while his modular fluidic propulsion robots (2020, 21 citations) introduce a novel concept for propulsion and reconfiguration in liquid environments. More recently, Gros has explored language models for scalable multi-robot code generation (GenSwarm, 2026) and formal supervisory control of swarms using public events. His research consistently emphasizes minimalism, decentralization, and provable correctness, making him a key figure in the quest for truly scalable, simple, and robust multi-robot systems.