Dude, filling in the " research interests" section in the CV is the hardest fucking part.

"I'm interested in anything robotic, that moves, and has even a minimum amount of learning. I can make them learn if they don't" she wrote.

"adding something emulating intelligence to things that shouldn't strictly have any"

@kwilliams is it just me or is that scary af?

It's a difficult balancing act. Too specific ("I want to work on pose transfer with dynamixel motors using so-and-so momentum point algorithm"), and you might get turned away because they think they can't offer you what you want. Too generic ("I like trains") and they'll be like "well, wtf do you want to do exactly?".

It's understood that you want to work in a general area, or the intersection of a bunch of areas, mention that. Within that it's a good idea to list a few examples of the kind of thing you like and/or the kind of previous work you've done that you enjoyed or a kind of research question that you'd like to pursue. Give them a taste of your research skills (in terms of defining good questions and doing background study), though make sure they get that those are examples and you're flexible within your domain. Despite the memes, good profs rarely want slave labour and they'd much prefer if you come in with a brain and agenda (anybody can implement stuff, but the hard part of research is study, defining questions, and drawing conclusions/deduction/induction. You're much more of an asset if you show something of that kind of stuff).

^that's the lecture I got from my prof when I was applying. That's what your motivation letter + CV should show, how ever you end up doing that, it should work. While it seems to have worked and you probably know all this, I can't tell if it was correlation or causation so I might just be bullshitting 🤷‍♂️

@RememberMe thanks for the lecture. Needed it.

I sorta opted for a table of buzzwords at this moment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@theKarlisK Only if each CV contains a unique cryptographic hash which points at the previous copy I think?