Alan Winfield's Web Log

Here are some pictures of e-pucks sporting their new spiky hats (click to enlarge). The purpose of these hats is to allow us to mark each e-...

Terrific to have visits today of both Richard Vaughan at his team from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and Marco Dorigo fro...

It has been brilliant to see the amazing coverage of the Heart Robot project during the last two days. Check out this piece on BBC news on...

Being interviewed live on national radio is an interesting experience. It's not so bad when you're in a studio face to face with t...

I'm very excited because my colleague Wenguo Liu has completed testing of a Linux plug-in board for the e-puck robot. This board very s...

Here's a video clip, by Davide Laneri, of one e-puck sounding a tone on its loudspeaker, and the other hearing the tone and turning towa...

I just returned from an amazing meeting in Stuttgart with an amazing group of people: the project kick-off meeting for the Symbrion project...

As reported in my previous two blog entries How and Why do we have Culture? , and What do Aliens look like? , I've become involved in Na...

In the run up to Science Week (7-16 March) the BA have been asking both the public and scientists for their big questions (see my previous ...

Amazing meeting yesterday afternoon at the Science Museum. Here's the story: the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA...

Here at @Bristol Walking with Robots is running a 3-day workshop for students and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence and anim...

Or, Pope's Dangerous Idea . One of the most important principles of science is attributed to 13th century philosopher William of Ockham ...

Great evening at the Dana Centre Tuesday. A public debate/discussion called Techno Bodies - Hybrid Life? "What counts as a hybrid life...

Every New Year the Edge poses a question and publishes the responses from among the world's intelligentsia. It's fun to read the re...

Our subjective experience of the 'continuity' of consciousness is surely an illusion. But what makes that illusion and why is it so ...

Ok, I admit it. I have an Xbox 360. Of course I'm hopeless at playing video games, which is perhaps just as well because it means that I...

Had a remarkable couple of days last week. Walking with Robots (WWR), the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) and the London Engineering Proj...

A day off sick with a head cold and painful sinuses had one consolation. I had a little time this afternoon to install Leopard - the new ver...

The projected ubiquity of personal companion robots raises a range of interesting but also troubling questions. There can be little doubt th...

Fed up with airports and - perhaps rather pathetically trying to do my bit for climate change - I'm taking the train from Bristol to Lis...