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Bartlomiej Klin is a robotics researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on extending the communicative and sensory capabilities of humanoid robots. His work centers on creating more intuitive and robust systems for verbal and non-verbal communication between humans and machines. Klin’s major contributions include the development of the "Human Interaction Smart Subsystem," an architecture that enhances speech-based HRI by integrating external smart sensors for richer information acquisition. This work, his most cited (43 citations), proposes a novel methodology for understanding a robot’s interlocutor. He has also demonstrated practical applications of these concepts, notably by equipping the Pepper humanoid robot for front desk reception (22 citations), where he extended its built-in interaction abilities with external modules. Further advancing the field, Klin has explored smart beamforming techniques to improve verbal communication in noisy, crowded environments, and introduced a "User Experience Sensor" model, inspired by the Tower of Hanoi, to optimize the user experience within hybrid intelligence systems. Through these innovations, Klin is actively shaping the future of seamless, context-aware human-machine collaboration.