I'm working on a project called PacMan, 
it's a robot manipulation project and we
have partners in Italy and Austria.
PacMan is about making Boris, our robot, be
able to load the dishwasher, using a
unfamiliar objects and my specific role in
this project is involves developing
object representations for Boris to
see what he has got on the table in front of him and to locate them to see what pose
they are in their environment and things like that. Studying for PhD involves a lot of
different skills coming together from
you, it requires lots of collaboration, you collaborate with
people in your project, which helps you
to be a good team player, it involves
a lot of problem solving and analytical
skills, so you to analyse what situation
you are in and you have to come up with good solutions to get out of that situation. In
Birmingham, working with world-class professors and colleagues, so that means
you have a lot of people who think
outside the box and who can give a great
push and help to your workplace and to your research as well. The
work environment here is great, it pushes
you forward, definitely. You'll never feel
like an outsider, because it's so
international and also, the good
thing is that we live in a great campus.
After the PhD, I want to go
straight into industry, and a well-planned PhD can help you do that because you're
basically developing algorithms and
theories and applying them to practical
situations, which consists of problems that are important now and they're going to be
important in the future as well. For example, in the robotics field, we are
going to have robots all around the
world, all around our world, in ten years
or fifteen years or so, so if you get a PhD in robotics or about vision, it is going to
help you to make an impact on the community later as well.
