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Sergi Foix is a robotics researcher whose work spans 3D sensing technologies, human-robot collaboration, and agricultural robotics. He is perhaps best known for his landmark 2011 survey, "Lock-in Time-of-Flight (ToF) Cameras: A Survey," which has accumulated an impressive 629 citations and established itself as a foundational reference in the field, comprehensively reviewing ToF camera technology, calibration methods, and multi-sensor integration. This early contribution positioned Foix as a leading authority on depth-sensing for robotic perception, a theme he extended through subsequent works on ToF cameras in active vision and manipulation within human environments. Beyond sensing, Foix has made meaningful contributions to collaborative robotics, exploring how robots can infer human intentions during shared industrial tasks and developing OCRA, an ontology framework designed to support safe and adaptive human-robot collaboration. His research also ventures into agricultural robotics, with innovative work on robotic plant probing and leaf segmentation using 3D data. More recently, his interests have expanded to composite manufacturing automation. Across a career spanning over a decade, Foix has consistently bridged fundamental sensing research with real-world robotic applications, making his work valuable reading for students and practitioners in intelligent robotics alike.