Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Reading recent research papers and identifying a gap in robot design, control, perception or human-robot interaction to study.
Designing experiments and prototypes, from a robot gripper or mobile base to a control algorithm or a learning-based planner.
Writing code and running simulations to test ideas before building physical hardware.
Building test rigs, collecting sensor data and checking whether results hold under real-world conditions.
Analysing data and comparing new methods with existing approaches to see what improves.
Writing papers, reports and grant proposals, and presenting results at conferences and to funders.
Supervising students, mentoring project teams and working with mechanical, electronics and software colleagues.
