The path to great discoveries are never really known; the only thing certain about the process of creation is its overwhelming uncertainty. Timothy, a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong, walks through his adventure as he creates a world-record breaking creation. Although his creative process is at times muddled with uncertainty, he believes strongly that it is precisely places of darkness where creativity shines the brightest. Timothy graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Hong Kong with an emphasis in Dynamics and Control. He has research experience in both the arts and engineering faculties, at the Beckman Institute and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Currently, he is a researcher at the Bionics and Control Lab at HKU, where he builds the foundation of fish robotics in the region, with an emphasis on high speed fish locomotion. As an engineer with a focus on the study of dynamics--things in motion, Timothy takes a lot of inspiration from the natural world. Sports, particularly the Mixed Martial Arts and Badminton has provided him with a strong intuition for physical motion.His interest ends not in engineering and the sciences, but extends to the arts and humanities. As an avid believer that meaning is derived from experience, he has gone to great lengths to understand the world from different perspectives. Both debate and theatre has provided him with rich experiences which has played a large role in his research in robotics. It was in university he discovered that any creative endeavour is a combination of both the arts and science, and has ever since pursued for the marriage of both. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
