Biography

Fernando Torres was born in Granada, where he attended primary and high school. He moved to Madrid to undertake a degree in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he also carried out his PhD thesis. The last year of his PhD thesis he became a full-time lecturer and researcher at the University of Alicante, and he has worked there ever since.
Fernando Torres directs the research group "Automatics, Robotics and Artificial Vision" founded in 1996 at the University of Alicante. His research focuses on automation and robotics (intelligent robotic manipulation, visual control of robots, robot perception systems, field mobile robots, advanced automation for industry 4.0, artificial vision engineering), and e-learning .