Can Robots be Truly Intelligent?

Professor Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics at the University of Sheffield, discusses the development of the robotic dog MiRo to test ideas about the structure of the mammalian brain.

Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0548s57#playt=0h8m52s

"Care and Ageing": 2nd annual CIRCLE international seminar

2nd Annual CIRCLE International Seminar

Caring & Ageing: international perspectives on family and workplace challenges

Register here: 

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MiRo the £600 robo-dog is part butler, part carer with an added 'sixth-sense'

The spin-out company Consequential Robotics, co-founded by Professor Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics at the University of Sheffield and Sebastian Conran, is featured on Wired this month for its development of MiRo, the world’s first commercial biomimetic robot dog.

Seminar: Squeezing Deep Learning onto Wearables, Phones and Things

Squeezing Deep Learning onto Wearables, Phones and Things

Dr Nic Lane, Senior Lecturer at University College London (UCL), and Principal Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

Wednesday 24th May, 12:00-13:00, Ada Lovelace, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield 

Robot dog that recognises faces and likes to be stroked could be the future of elderly care

MiRo, built by Consequential Robotics and the University of Sheffield could be used to help the elderly or those with learning difficulties.

Read the full article from The Mirror here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/robot-dog-recognises-faces-likes-10258456

CATCH proud to be part of the Foreign Office’s #GlobalBritain campaign

CATCH is delighted to be one of five institutions from the UK to be part of the Foreign Office’s Global Britain campaign.

Read the Perfect Patient Pathway Test Bed Newsletter - Issue One

The first issue of the South Yorkshire Region Perfect Patient Pathway (PPP) Test Bed newsletter has been published.

The evaluation, led by CATCH research Dr Steve Ariss is one of seven national ‘Test Bed’ sites in a drive to modernise how the NHS delivers care through creating new collaborations between the NHS and industry.

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Sir Malcolm Grant CBE visits Innovation Centre - the NHS England Chair was interested to see the rapid progress being made by the Sheffield Perfect Patient Pathway programme.
• Testing the new Health Emergency App - just one of the technologies being evaluated by the PPP.
• Diabetes patients benefiting from device that could help thousands - discover the device helping patients better manage insulin injections.
• Innovative Intelligence Centre will help support patient care - the centre will aggregate data from all health and social care partners to create one dataset.

The programme aims to create the ‘Perfect Patient Pathway’ to bring substantial benefits for patients living with long term health conditions, such as diabetes, mental health problems, respiratory disease, hypertension and other chronic conditions.

To find out more about the Perfect Patient Pathway Test Bed, visit the project page or contact Laura Murray.

The full newsletter can be downloaded and read here.