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How a child's dream to become a wizard can lead you into the world of robots is what one can hear from Kostadin Kostadinov, a robotics and mechatronics professor at the Institute of Mechanics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

"In your early years, it is very important to meet the right people to guide you. Like all children, I dreamed of being a doctor at the time. Back then, it was very difficult to develop, to grow, but I had a very good chemistry teacher. I graduated from the high school of mathematics in Lom and that teacher played a huge role. He insisted that I take a chemistry course, so I applied and started studying chemistry," Prof. DSc Pavlinka Dolashka told BTA.

An inventor with 50 years of work in the field of industrial property, Toms Hrant Dersarkissian can tell you all about his pioneering project for industrial gold production during sand mining decades ago, to the current innovative methods for the utilization of spent solar panels and old batteries.