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Sotiris Aivaliotis is a prominent researcher at the intersection of robotics, flexible manufacturing, and human-robot collaboration, whose work has fundamentally shaped how modern production systems integrate intelligent automation. With a body of research accumulating over 700 citations, his contributions span digital twin technology, augmented reality interfaces, and safe collaborative robotics — areas increasingly vital to Industry 4.0 adoption. His most celebrated work, "Digital Twin for Adaptation of Robots' Behavior in Flexible Robotic Assembly Lines" (2019, 213 citations), established digital twins as a practical framework for dynamically reconfiguring assembly systems in response to product personalization demands. This thread continued in his 2021 follow-up (108 citations), which extended the approach to human-robot collaborative line design. Aivaliotis has also made significant contributions to robot safety, exploring power and force limiting techniques (88 citations) and pioneering mobile dual-arm robotic coworkers as genuine alternatives to purely human assembly teams (83 citations). Particularly distinctive is his sustained commitment to operator-centered design. His augmented reality research — spanning AR-based worker support frameworks and seamless human-robot interaction suites — demonstrates a conviction that flexible manufacturing must remain genuinely accessible to human workers, not merely technically sophisticated. His architecture-level contributions, including the ODIN reconfigurable production framework, further reflect a researcher building coherent, implementable systems rather than isolated innovations.