The research activity of Rafael Garcia mainly focuses on robotics in topics such as robot navigation and mapping, sensor fusion, 3D reconstruction, semantic representation of video imagery and large-scale optical mapping. Rafael Garcia is currently director of the Institute of Education Sciences of the University of Girona (Spain). His teaching interests include the design of innovative educational tools and the relationship between motivation and learning. In recent years he has focused his teaching at the Erasmus-Mundus Master VIBOT, offered jointly by the University of Girona, the Heriot-Watt University (UK) and the Université de Bourgogne (France).He has been visiting researcher at the Universität der Bundeswehr (Germany), University College Cork (Ireland), IRISA-INRIA (France), and the University of Miami (USA). He is leading several national and transnational projects in the field of robotics and image processing. In the last years he has been involved as entrepreneur in the creation of two spin-off companies. Dr. Garcia is author of 40 journal articles, 3 books, 11 book chapters and 80 papers in peer-review conferences.He also devotes part of his time to science outreach. You can find below a talk at TEDxUdG. The presentation (2') is in Catalan and the talk in English (8'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z7oGEbPVIE