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Nikita Mankovskii is an emerging robotics researcher specializing in underwater autonomous systems, swarm robotics, and marine technology. His work centers on developing innovative multi-robot platforms designed to tackle the formidable challenges of underwater exploration, inspection, and monitoring. Mankovskii is perhaps best known for his role in creating H-SURF (Heterogeneous Swarm of Underwater Robotic Fish), a groundbreaking modular system of cooperative robotic fish governed by decentralized control algorithms, which has garnered 19 citations since its 2022 introduction and continues to evolve through subsequent teleoperation and inspection applications. His theoretical contributions extend beyond hardware, with his 2021 study on swarm democracy and collective decision-making — exploring how informed agents counterbalance stubborn "zealots" in multi-agent systems — accumulating 15 citations and offering broad implications for swarm intelligence research. His comprehensive 2022 survey on robotic swarms for marine missions (14 citations) has become a valuable reference for the field. Contributing to real-world deployments, Mankovskii also participated in the development of the Nukhada unmanned surface vehicle at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, reflecting his commitment to translating research into operational marine robotics solutions.