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Yohei Doi is a researcher in swarm robotics and collective construction, focusing on how simple, decentralized agents can collaborate to build complex, dynamic structures. His work explores the intersection of robot swarms and intelligent, semi-active building blocks—modular components equipped with rule sets and local communication capabilities. Doi’s key contribution lies in demonstrating that minimalistic robots, lacking global awareness, can achieve sophisticated construction tasks by interacting with these blocks, which guide growth direction and structural stability. His most-cited paper, “Collective Construction of Dynamic Equilibrium Structure Through Interaction of Simple Robots with Semi-active Blocks” (2016, 11 citations), proposes a method where blocks self-organize into chains, forming dynamic equilibrium structures without central control. This approach has implications for adaptive architecture, disaster response, and autonomous infrastructure. Doi also introduced the concept of casualty-based cooperation in swarm robots (2018, 6 citations), where robots adjust behavior based on team member loss, enhancing resilience. Though his citation counts are modest, his work is foundational for researchers exploring embodied intelligence and decentralized construction, offering a scalable, fault-tolerant paradigm for real-world robotic swarms.