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Simon Bultmann is a robotics researcher whose work spans computer vision, multi-robot systems, and intelligent perception architectures. He has made notable contributions to the field of **collaborative perception**, particularly through his development of smart edge sensor networks that enable robots to understand and navigate complex environments. His research on 6D object pose estimation and keypoint-based detection methods has advanced how robots perceive and interact with objects in real-world settings, with his keypoint-based pose estimation and external robot localization work accumulating over a dozen citations each. Bultmann has demonstrated versatility across robotic platforms, contributing to autonomous UAV systems for the prestigious MBZIRC 2020 challenge and multi-robot cooperative mapping, while also contributing to agricultural robotics through automated crop inspection. His involvement with Team NimbRo — winners of RoboCup@Home 2024's Open Platform League — highlights his engagement with state-of-the-art service robotics leveraging foundation models. A unifying theme across his work is pushing perception beyond single-sensor limitations by distributing computation across networked sensors and robots. With a growing body of research across aerial, ground, and service robotics contexts, Bultmann represents an emerging voice in intelligent, collaborative robotic perception systems.