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Felix Lindner is a prominent researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), machine ethics, and socially aware robotics, whose work bridges technical implementation with the psychological and moral dimensions of robot deployment. His most influential contribution, a taxonomy of trust-relevant failures and mitigation strategies (2020, 93 citations), has become a foundational reference for researchers designing trustworthy robots, systematically categorizing failure types and identifying critical gaps in the field. Lindner has also made significant strides in machine ethics through his development of the HERA (Hybrid Ethical Reasoning Agent) framework, which provides logic-based tools enabling robots to engage in autonomous moral decision-making — work represented across multiple publications including the IMMANUEL agent implementation. His research on personal space and social affordances for human-aware robots demonstrates a sustained commitment to enabling robots to navigate shared environments with genuine social intelligence. More recently, Lindner has turned his attention to explainable AI in robotics, investigating how robots can communicate their navigational decisions to human users through visuo-textual explanations. With a body of work spanning over a decade and累积 more than 250 citations, Lindner's research consistently advances the goal of creating robots that are not only technically capable but ethically grounded and socially accepted.