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Igor Kuksin is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, biology, and architecture, best known for his groundbreaking work on bio-hybrid systems that merge natural organisms with artificial agents. His primary research areas include symbiotic robot-plant societies, underwater swarm robotics, and culturally evolving artificial systems. Kuksin’s most influential contribution is the *Flora Robotica* project, which proposes mixed societies of distributed robots and living plants that co-grow architectural structures—a radical departure from traditional automation. His 2015 paper on this topic has accumulated 62 citations, establishing a foundational framework for life-as-it-could-be design. In 2018, he extended these ideas to aquatic environments with *subCULTron*, a project exploring cultural evolution in underwater robot swarms (31 citations). Kuksin’s 2017 paper further refined the *Flora Robotica* concept (25 citations), while his 2019 work on robotic sensing for guided plant growth (3 citations) introduced novel methodologies for manipulating plant directionality beyond agricultural automation. His research challenges conventional boundaries between the natural and the artificial, offering visionary pathways for sustainable architecture and adaptive robotics.