Alan Winfield's Web Log

Several weeks ago I was contacted by On The Human , a forum for researchers across science and the humanities to share ideas, and asked if I...

It's now over two years since I first blogged about our Linux-enhanced e-puck , designed by my colleague Dr Wenguo Liu . Since then, th...

Just finished a paper describing some new results on open-ended memetic evolution from the Artificial Culture project . I describe in some d...

As a follow-up to a talk I gave last December in Warwick , we were visited in the lab today by a group of social and complexity scientists f...

No, not that academy, but an academy award all the same. Last night WWR won the Royal Academy of Engineering 2010 Rooke medal for the Pub...

Nicolas Bredeche and his graduate student Jean-Marc Montanier have spent the last two weeks working in the lab to test out work they had al...

This week's European Land Robotics trials (ELROB) in the beautiful countryside of Hammelburg provided the assembled roboticists with a s...

Spent a most interesting day today at EPSRC HQ in Swindon. I was one of several academics asked to come and exhibit their work to the staff...

Learned something new and surprising about Mars rovers (like Spirit and Opportunity , and the planned European rover ExoMars ): that if litt...

I've blogged before about the excellent Robotic Visions project and - yes I admit it - I have a soft spot for Visions: its where public...

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...