I’m enthusiastic about robotics: creating machines that can perceive their environment to acquire task-relevant information about it, plan a course of action towards a desired new environment configuration, and execute the plan in a safe and robust manner, even under uncertainty and noisy actuation. We know a solution is possible just by looking at humans; understanding and getting inspired by human cognition through psychology and cognitive science is part of my methodology. In my research, I integrate artificial perception, planning, and control, and view them as learning problems. I develop solutions for simple skills such as pick-and-place, navigation, or door opening, and more complex tasks like cooking, assembling furniture, or mobile manipulation problems that combine navigation and manipulation