I supervised Marc Sala Codina during his BSc thesis titled ‘ROS Educational Robot Kit’, which was defended at ‘Universitat de Vic (UVic-UCC) for the Degree in Mechatronics. In that project, he worked together with Sergi de las Muelas Acosta, they both developed ROSNI, a low-cost ROS initiation kit, they also studied the feasibility of introducing the product to the market. The kit consists of several tools (hardware and software) to help beginner and intermediate users to learn ROS with a real robot. Later, I used three prototypes of their robot for the laboratory sessions of the course ‘Mobile Robotics’, at the same university and degree. They actually won the INNOVA-Talent UVic-UCC 2023 award, which recognizes their work as the best entrepreneurial bachelor thesis.

Marc is a passionate and motivated person, always eager to work and learn. It was truly enjoyable for me to accompany him in his learning experience at the last year of his degree program.