 Hello, my name is Praveenora and I'm a participant at the 64th LIYSF and today I'm here with one of our amazing speakers So can we begin by just introducing yourself and what you do? Yes, I'm Perla Magiolino I'm an associate professor at the University of Oxford and I'm like a software roboticist And my research is about providing a robot with sense of touch and with soft bodies Incredible very new and interesting topic So what inspired you to pursue a career in engineering and robotics? I think it for me like Engineers I've always been very fascinated by robots and like I really like the the fact that the engineering provide me a way to put together both my curiosity and like I like the scientific ground of engineering and the same times it's very creative job because you need to actually Dream about like future robots and actually use science to make them and this is very empowering for me So I really found this Really fascinating and like beautiful to pursue