Alan Winfield's Web Log

Really great news. We learned today that our EPSRC bid to take Robotic Visions nationwide has been granted. Let me explain what Robotic Vi...

Just returned from the excellent 2nd EmergeNet meeting, in Glasgow. EmergeNet is an EPSRC funded network of projects and people linked by ...

In Stuttgart, at the University , for a Symbrion project meeting. Its been a really tough meeting - which is hardly surprising given that w...

Last week we made a significant breakthrough in the Artificial Culture project . My student Mehmet Erbas demonstrated robot robot imitation...

Just gave a Walking with Robots talk for about 450 school children, at Disneyland, Paris . The Gaumont cinema to be precise, on the Disneyla...

Returning on the Eurostar from a really interesting workshop in Brussels, on Robots for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance ...

Jan Dyre Bjerknes has made a terrific breakthrough with his PhD research that I'm very excited about: see the YouTube video (courtesy o...

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...