Dr Masoud S. Bahraini is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Birmingham, UK. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to several high-profile research initiatives, including the £4.8M Made Smarter Innovation – Smart Cobotic Centre, the £1.4M Industrial Robots as a Service project, and the €3.1M EU Horizon 2020 PRO-ACT project. He is currently Co-Lead of the £11M EPSRC Co-AIMS: Research Hub on Collaborative AI for Manufacturing Sustainability, where he is helping shape the national research agenda for human-AI collaboration in sustainable manufacturing. Previously, Dr Bahraini was a Senior Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Loughborough University, where he combined cutting-edge robotics research with student-focused teaching. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant Professor at Sirjan University of Technology, where he established a research lab in robotics and AI, and led several industry-facing innovation projects, including the development of the Intelligent Fragmentation Size Detection Device (IFSDD). As the founder of Samangan Intelligent Technologists Co., he has demonstrated a strong commitment to translating academic research into practical, real-world applications. His research interests span Autonomous and Industrial Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Navigation, Cooperative VSLAM/VO, Perception Systems, Machine Learning, Self-driving Cars, and Fractional Order Control Systems.