Can we develop truly useful robots for the betterment of humanity? How can we make a robot that people can interact with naturally, without spending months training how to use it? Can truly intelligent robots co-exist with humans? These are just some of the questions I ask during my PhD with Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University.Before that I spent a year as a software developer for a fantastic wind turbine maintenance and inspection robot at BladeBUG Limited, and studied an MEng in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London.My Master's project investigated the problem of localisation of an arbitrarily sized swarm by applying large-scale probabilistic localisation methods to the swarm as a whole.My undergraduate group project involved development of a haptic feedback glove, alongside OpenCV tracking to detect its position. This was used to control a Cartesian robot developed by the other group members.I was the Projects Coordinator for Imperial College Robotics Society, in charge of competitions and robot building. I've built a team of football robots, an international sumo wrestling robot, organised competitions and lead an annual team entry into the Eurobot robotics competition. My role in the society also involved teaching an introductory robotics course.