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Craig Lennon’s research lies at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-robot teaming, with a particular focus on enabling robots to operate as autonomous teammates rather than mere tools. Working primarily within the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA), Lennon has made significant contributions to robot self-recovery, semantic perception, and cognitive architectures for navigation. His most cited work, “Integrated Intelligence for Human-Robot Teams” (2017, 18 citations), addresses the challenge of fusing perception, planning, and learning to create robots capable of fluid collaboration with humans. Lennon also introduced a pioneering metric for self-rightability (2014, 9 citations), providing a general framework for robots to autonomously recover from tip-overs—a critical capability for operation in unpredictable environments. His work on learning features while learning to classify (2018, 6 citations) advances cognitive models that allow autonomous systems to adapt their perceptual understanding in real time. Through multiple RCTA capstone assessments and integrated evaluations of semantic navigation, Lennon has helped shape the trajectory of military robotics, bridging fundamental research with practical, deployable systems that enhance soldier safety and mission effectiveness.