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Hisaka Wada is a leading researcher in human–robot collaboration, with a primary focus on ensuring operator safety and motion efficiency in shared industrial workspaces. Wada’s most cited work, “Motion Planning Analysis According to ISO/TS 15066 in Human–Robot Collaboration Environment” (2019, 8 citations), critically examines how global safety restrictions based on worst-case scenarios can reduce efficiency and increase cycle times, proposing more nuanced motion planning strategies. Building on this, Wada developed the co-worker robot PaDY for automobile assembly lines, introducing dynamic collision avoidance methods using time-augmented configuration-space (2016, 6 citations) to protect workers from collision risks. A further advancement, “Reactive motion planning using time-layered C-spaces for a collaborative robot PaDY” (2021, 5 citations), presents TLC-spaces—an innovative approach that enables real-time, reactive motion planning by layering configuration-time spaces with multiple moving obstacles. Collectively, Wada’s work bridges the gap between rigorous safety standards and practical robot efficiency, offering foundational algorithms for safe, dynamic human–robot interaction. These contributions are essential reading for researchers and engineers developing collaborative robots in manufacturing, where balancing productivity and safety is paramount.