Alan Winfield's Web Log

There was a great piece on this afternoon's Material World - an interview with Andrew Whiten about cultural traditions in chimpanzees. ...

Check out our new Artificial Culture project web pages: These have been built using Google Sites . A remarkably straightforward way to ...

Check out Noel Sharkey's excellent piece describing the depressingly relentless 'advance' of offensive robots, in today's D...

Great to see an independent report listing robotics as one of the key future industry sectors for the UK in today's Guardian: uk industr...

I'm here at the brilliant European Union conference Science beyond Fiction , and yesterday gave my talk in the session on Collective Rob...

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...