u/Alive-Opportunity-23

Hey guys,

I think people on this sub are incredibly capable and wise, I am very inspired by your projects. Therefore, I’d appreciate your tips so much.

I study robotics in Germany in masters, had theoretical courses in learning based control and reinforcement learning at a renowned technical university. I apply my theoretical knowledge in hackathons regularly, I also have my own projects with serial kinematics. I had a computer vision internship in robotics industry. I really want to gain industry experience in RL. Especially applied in fields such as construction, mining, where the work has positive contributions and impact on communities. I had completed an excavator policy optimisation project with ROS2 due to my interest. I get the impression that being accepted to a position is impossible and my efforts are not sufficient. What am I missing?

I learned swimming pretty early on and I remember very vividly how fun and enjoyable the water was for me. I grew up in a town without a sea or body of water, my only interaction with sea was on vacations. I think I was 5 years old when I thought of opening my eyes underwater for the first time and saw that terrifying view. I felt pure fear and panic, started kicking my feet and got out of water immediately. That’s already an early age to be terrified of depth underwater which is strange. Looking at the posts shared on this sub, my heart literally rushes and I can’t even last 3 seconds, I have to look away because it terrifies me. I didn’t have any bad memory or traumatic experience with water or anything. Where is this coming from? I want to understand it.

I have a hardware project for which I need to connect some flex sensors to a molex connector, prototype and maybe solder I gathered the materials but I don’t have all the tools required for the project. As an example, I need a crimp tool for the molex connection and I also don’t have a soldering tool. Could you please tell me, if there is a workshop at the uni that offers students to use tools and work there? Thanks for the help.