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Weidong Guo is a pioneering roboticist whose research spans dexterous manipulation, soft biorobotics, and autonomous locomotion. His early landmark work on the BUAA four-fingered hand (2002, 35 citations) established foundational principles for anthropomorphic robotic hands, designing a four-degree-of-freedom, DC-servomotor-actuated system that remains a reference for dextrous manipulation research. More recently, Guo has advanced healthcare robotics with his 2024 work on an extracorporeal closed-loop respiratory regulation system using a soft bionic robot (11 citations), offering a noninvasive alternative to traditional ventilators for patients with respiratory difficulty. He further refined this domain by modeling diaphragm displacement via ultrasound imaging for wearable respiratory assistive robots (2024, 2 citations), enabling quantitative assessment of device impact on patient physiology. In mobile robotics, Guo developed a novel local path planning method (2013, 7 citations) that simultaneously optimizes robot posture and path smoothness—a critical advance for navigation in constrained environments. His latest contribution (2025) introduces a terrain-aware hierarchical control framework for humanoid robots, integrating perception and foothold control for dynamic locomotion on unstructured terrains. Across these diverse contributions, Guo demonstrates a consistent commitment to bridging mechanical design, control theory, and clinical application, with his work informing both industrial automation and assistive medical technologies.