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Mark Witkowski is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous systems, swarm robotics, robot learning, and artificial perception. Based at institutions contributing to the UK's strong robotics community, Witkowski has made lasting contributions to the field through both foundational research and his role in shaping the academic discourse around autonomous robotic systems. His most influential work, "High-Level Robot Control through Logic" (2001, 49 citations), established key frameworks for applying logical reasoning to robot behavior, bridging AI and robotics in meaningful ways. His research into swarm robotics produced a particularly creative contribution — a 2007 study modeling energy sharing among robots on the food-sharing behavior of vampire bats, demonstrating how biological systems can inspire novel engineering solutions for energy-critical robot communities. Witkowski has also been a prominent organizer and contributor to the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) conference series, helping to advance the field through edited proceedings and community-building across multiple years. His early work on reinforcement learning and behavior shaping, alongside later research into artificial visual attention and abductive perception, reflects a career defined by broad, integrative thinking about how robots can sense, learn, and act intelligently in the world.