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Brice Denoun is a roboticist dedicated to solving one of the most pressing challenges in hazardous environments: safe and effective nuclear waste decommissioning. His research focuses on robotic manipulation, telerobotics, and tactile sensing, with a strong emphasis on real-world deployment. His most cited work, "A Suite of Robotic Solutions for Nuclear Waste Decommissioning" (53 citations), addresses the critical need for robots to perceive, grasp, cut, and manipulate radioactive materials for safe sorting and disposal. Denoun has also pioneered a Virtual Reality-based telerobotics framework (28 citations) that uses depth cameras and in-hand camera views to enhance operator control in remote manipulation tasks. Beyond teleoperation, he advances autonomous grasping through tactile slip detection using distributed normal and shear force sensing, and real-time pressure estimation with soft skin sensors. His contributions to benchmarking include statistical stratification methods for evaluating grasping performance and the GRIP software framework for integrating and prototyping grasping robots. Denoun’s work is distinguished by its direct industrial relevance, bridging the gap between laboratory research and the extreme conditions of nuclear environments, making him a key figure in the future of safe, autonomous manipulation.