Alan Winfield's Web Log

My PhD student Paul has started a new series of experiments in embodied evolution in the swarm robotics lab. Here's a picture showing h...

At the start of the Artificial Culture project we made a commitment to an Open Science approach. Actually translating those good intention...

On Monday I took part in a meeting of the Complex Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) network in Warwick. The theme of the meeting was Movement in mo...

Just gave our talk at DARS 2010 , basically challenging the common assumption that swarm robot systems are highly scalable by default. In ot...

In June I blogged about Nicolas Bredeche and Jean-Marc Montanier working with us in the lab to transfer their environment-driven distribut...

Well, I can't believe I'm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alan_winfield Not at all sure I understand what I'm doing yet. There...

Great to read that Google are putting some funding into driverless car technology with the very laudable aims of reducing robot traffic fat...

I'm with about 25 people in a hotel in the New Forest to talk about the ethical, legal and societal issues around robotics. We are a div...

Robot imitation as a method for modelling the foundations of social life: a meeting of robotics and sociology to explore the spread of behav...

I'm at the excellent Swarm Intelligence conference in Brussels, called appropriately ANTS . This morning there is a special session on m...

As someone who believes in - and from time-to-time advocates - the Open Science approach, I need to practise what I preach. That means bein...

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...