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Claas Ehmke is a pioneering roboticist whose work spans soft robotics, medical microrobotics, and autonomous systems. His research focuses on developing intelligent, reconfigurable robots that can operate in complex and sensitive environments—from inside the human body to hospital wards and racetracks. Ehmke’s most impactful contribution is the development of self-folding soft-robotic chains (2023, 100 citations), which use magnetic fields to actively steer and reshape themselves for minimally invasive medical procedures, overcoming the geometric limitations of traditional continuum robots. He has also made significant strides in healthcare robotics, creating an agile mobile platform for contactless vital sign monitoring (2022, 66 citations), a technology accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic that reduces in-person contact and conserves protective equipment. Beyond medicine, Ehmke contributed to the AMZ Driverless project (2020, 11 citations), an autonomous racing system that demonstrated robust, high-speed navigation on unknown tracks. His latest work explores soft magnetic microrobots with integrated remote sensing and communication capabilities (2025), pushing the boundaries of multi-agent collaboration and autonomous state monitoring at the microscale. With over 200 total citations, Ehmke’s research is shaping the future of adaptive, minimally invasive, and contactless robotic systems.