With his extraordinary language skills, and excellent overall education, he communicated at the highest scientific level with colleagues from the Soviet Union, European countries, and North America.

In 1960 he moved to the Institute "Mihajlo Pupin" to pursue research in the field of anthropomorphic robotics and water engineering.

[7] Rajko Tomović spent time in the U.S. contributing greatly to the development of new views and methods in robotics, biomedical engineering, and computer sciences.

His contacts and communication spread over Canada, the U.S., the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and many other countries.

One his best-known results was the multifunctional hand prosthesis, developed in collaboration with Prof. Miodrag Rakić that is now exhibited in the Museum of Robotics in Boston.

In the early eighties, Tomović was leading a project for Veterans Administration Center, New York City, that resulted in the only powered and externally controlled self-contained transfemoral prosthesis that reached the world market.

Tomović participated in and contributed to many designs and development projects including the first analog and digital computers for the Yugoslav army and defense systems.

As a world-recognized expert and leader in the field, Tomović was frequently invited to teach and consult in other ways at various universities, international meetings, specialized workshop, and major funding agencies.

Rajko Tomović was constantly involved in the organization of scientific and engineering meetings, summer schools, and workshops that took place in Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavian meetings became places where scientists from the Soviet Union and other Eastern-bloc countries met with their colleagues from North America and Western Europe.

In 1984, Dr. Norman Kaplan, Director of the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., gave an interesting, very valid depiction of Rajko Tomović's personality, stating that he was a renaissance scientist.

Together with Dr. Dejan B. Popović and Richard B. Stein, he published the first monograph in the world about non-analytical methods for motor control in 1995.

The little pillow in front of the CD player and old gramophone, a large collection of CDs and LP records, and headphones that can eliminate daily noise, were all parts of his living room furniture.