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Salvatore Livatino is a prominent researcher whose work spans robotics, teleoperation, augmented and mixed reality, and human-robot interaction. Over more than two decades, he has made sustained contributions to how operators perceive, navigate, and control robotic systems in remote and complex environments. His early investigations into stereo vision and virtual reality for mobile robot teleguide — beginning in the late 1990s and continuing through the 2000s — established foundational principles for depth-enhanced situational awareness, demonstrating that 3D stereoscopic visualization significantly improves operator comprehension of remote scenes compared to conventional 2D displays. Building on this, Livatino advanced augmented reality interfaces that fuse laser and video sensor data into coherent, spatially registered visualizations, lowering cognitive load while enriching environmental understanding. His most-cited work, a 2017 systematic review on haptic feedback in robot-assisted surgery (99 citations), reflects a natural extension of his teleoperation expertise into the surgical domain, highlighting a critical sensory gap in current robotic systems. More recently, his research on mixed reality visual aids for intuitive robot teleoperation (44 citations) underscores his continued relevance as sensing and computing capabilities evolve. Collectively, Livatino's research has shaped safer, more intuitive interfaces at the intersection of human perception and autonomous systems.