Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Friday, 9 June 2017

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

Friday, 26 May 2017

BBC Radio Sheffield - the role that robots are playing in our lives


Dr Ana MacIntosh, Manager of Sheffield Robotics at the University of Sheffield, discusses the University’s research into how people with dementia can benefit from robotics. Professor Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics, also discusses the possibilities of having personal relationships with robots ahead of his talk on the subject as part of this month’s Pint of Science festival in Sheffield.


Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0528wv4#playt=0h37m0s

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Creating Robots That Care: the 2017 Karen Spärck Jones lecture: 25/05/2017

2017 Karen Spärck Jones Lecture

Creating Robots That Care
Professor Maja Matarić (University of Southern California)
25th May 2017
BCS Headquarters
Southampton Street, London