PhD Thesis Proposal

Abstract: Touch is a powerful yet underused channel for learning. Prior research shows that haptic interaction can support both sensorimotor skill acquisition and the understanding of abstract concepts by grounding learning in bodily experience. However, most haptic devices remain expensive, technically complex, and difficult to reproduce, which keeps them largely confined to specialized laboratories. This limits [...]

Abstract: Agricultural specialists are actively turning to robotic and computer vision-based systems to reduce the manual labor required to inspect and manipulate crops. These tasks require robots to perceive and interact with plants from partial, localized observations, often in dense and cluttered environments. For perception, a central challenge is that crops are small, are easily [...]