Alan Winfield's Web Log

I strongly believe that researchers in intelligent robotics, autonomous systems and AI can no longer undertake their research in a moral vac...

On Monday I gave a talk at an amazingly interesting workshop in Warwick. Part of a project called Mimetic Factors in Health and Well-being ...

I was delighted to be asked to give the annual Christmas lecture to the Nottingham Medico Chirurgical society last night, in the medical sch...

Tough afternoon yesterday. Why? I'll come to that. Along with the other senior media fellows, I attended EPSRC's Societal Issues Pan...

Gave some Walking with Robots talks at an elementary school today, in Ikeda Japan (near Osaka). The e-pucks were a great success with the ch...

If you're in or around Manchester Saturday 24th - Tuesday 27th October, do come and see us at the Walking with Robots festival of roboti...

Surrogates . Not a great movie* but thought provoking in a possible-robot-futures kind of way. The first thing that made it interesting was...

1st October today and a new job within UWE. I'm seconded out of my associate dean role(s) within environment and technology so that I ca...

Yesterday we had a full artificial culture project team meeting in Warwick, following on from the EmergeNet meeting on Thursday (see my pre...

Here at the University of Warwick this week for the European Conference on Complex Systems . Unexpectedly, Springer also used the conference...

I was interviewed by John Arlidge on Saturday, researching for a piece on the American Association for Artificial Intelligence meeting, earl...

Back in 2006 I wrote about installing the excellent Player/Stage robot simulator under Linux, and the problems caused by dependencies (i.e...

Here is the full text of my letter in this week's THE : Sir, I am dismayed by the poor quality of journalism shown in the article Sandpi...

The first Robotic Visions conference has started here in the Science Learning Centre of At-Bristol ! We have around 25 students from 4 scho...

Check our this Youtube video of the amazing Scratchbot built my my colleagues at the Bristol Robotics Lab : This robot not only has artific...

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...