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Evangelos Milios is a pioneering researcher in autonomous robotics, with foundational contributions to mobile robot navigation, environment mapping, and multi-robot systems. His most celebrated work, "Globally Consistent Range Scan Alignment for Environment Mapping" (1997), has amassed over 1,270 citations and established core techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) that continue to underpin modern robotics research. Complementing this, his parallel investigations into 2D range scan matching — with over 1,000 combined citations across related publications — gave the field practical algorithms for robot pose estimation in unknown environments. Milios extended his influence beyond single-robot systems by exploring the theoretical and practical dimensions of multi-agent robotics. His taxonomies for both multi-agent and swarm robotics provided researchers with essential conceptual frameworks for classifying collaborative robot behaviors. His early work on robotic exploration as graph construction (1991) demonstrated remarkable foresight, treating exploration as a structured computational problem long before the field matured. His research portfolio also spans amphibious robotics — exemplified by the innovative AQUA robot — and multi-robot cooperative localization, reflecting a career defined by breadth, rigor, and lasting practical impact across autonomous systems research.