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Linjie Yang is a leading researcher in dexterous robotic manipulation and autonomous perception, with seminal contributions to the development of highly articulated robot hands and intelligent visual recognition systems. Yang’s most influential work centers on the HIT/DLR dexterous hand, a groundbreaking project that produced a compact, multisensory robotic hand with four identical fingers and an extra palm degree of freedom. The foundational 2004 paper on this work has garnered 51 citations, establishing Yang as a key figure in anthropomorphic hand design. To enable precise control, Yang developed a high-performance DSP/FPGA controller architecture, cited 25 times, which integrated reconfigurable logic for real-time motor control and data acquisition. In recent years, Yang has advanced semantic SLAM-based dense mapping for large-scale dynamic outdoor environments (34 citations), significantly improving robot navigation in complex settings. Yang also pioneered shape-SVM and machine learning algorithms for multi-workpiece recognition, enabling robots to autonomously learn and grasp objects on assembly lines. With a career spanning foundational hardware design to cutting-edge AI perception, Linjie Yang’s work continues to drive progress in dexterous robotics and autonomous systems.