Should robots have faces? Can you fall in love with a robot? Will robots rule the future? These are some of the questions that were approached at last Thursday 1st December at ‘Robots vs Humanity’, an event organised by the CHIRON project. The sold out event, held at Google Campus in London, saw people from…
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Five New Robots in 2016
MiRo MiRo, by Sebastian Conran Associates, is marketed as a “biomimetic companion robot”. Modelled on a dog – albeit a dog that will transmit news of any problems in the home to a hub, remind you to take your medicine, and remind you of your visitors’ names – MiRo was met with derision recently by…
Success for CHIRON’s Sanja Dogramadzi
CHIRON projects’ Professor Sanja Dogramadzi from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) has been named in RoboHub’s fourth annual ’25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About’ list. Following a seeming trend in the CHIRON team at the moment (see Praminda Caleb-Solly’s success as STEM woman of the year a few weeks ago), Sanja has joined the…
Shadow opens office at Future Space at UWE Bristol
The article below has been reblogged from Shadow Robot’s website with their permission. One of the UK’s longest-running robotics companies, Shadow Robot Company, have just opened a new office in Bristol’s Future Space which is based at the University of West England (UWE Bristol), adjacent to the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). Shadow are a partner…
‘Robots Helping People’
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