Yiming Liu | Docotoral Candidate, Associate Professorship of Neuromuscular Diagnostics
“Here at TUM, researchers are exploring various directions of robotics and maintaining good cooperation, which is of great benefit to me.”
Hello everyone, I’m Yiming from China. I joined the Associate Professorship of Neuromuscular Diagnostics as a PhD student in October 2020. Before that, I did my Master at the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and focused mostly on robotics.
Although robotics has developed rapidly in the past decades, there is still a long way to go for robots to achieve human-level flexibility. In fact, many tasks that are challenging for robots are actually super simple for humans. However, there are still many unknowns about human’s strategy and control mechanisms in accomplishing these tasks. That’s why I decided to research more into human sensorimotor control for my PhD. Currently, I focus on the haptic communication between two humans during a collaborative task. I am also working together with a robotics team at Imperial College London. Hopefully, through our research, robots can better communicate and cooperate with people. Research on robotics often requires interdisciplinary cooperation. Here at TUM, researchers are exploring various directions of robotics and maintaining good cooperation, which is of great benefit to me.
It has been over a year since the outbreak of the global pandemic, and it was a great challenge to everyone. I am thankful that I finished my master and began my PhD smoothly, and I am allowed to work from home most of the time. I tried to stay positive by keeping in contact with my friends and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Currently, the numbers are still high, but as more and more people are getting vaccinated every day, I do believe that we will see an end to this pandemic in a few months. By then, I would be very excited to get to know more people on the campus!