Alan Winfield's Web Log

A few days ago, at the excellent HowTheLightGetsIn festival, I took part in a panel debate called Rise of the Machines. Here was the brief:...

Here is the poster we presented at last week's excellent Future Emerging Technologies conference in Budapest :

Well it's taken awhile, but the draft revised 'laws of robotics' have now been published. New Scientist article Roboethics for H...

Just spent 4 days at the beautiful Schloss Dagstuhl in SW Germany attending a seminar on Artificial Immune Systems . The Dagstuhl is a rema...

A few weeks ago I spent a very enjoyable Saturday at the Northern Arts and Science Network annual conference Dialogues , in Leeds. The morn...

In future if anyone wants to know what I think - about almost anything scientific and quite alot else - all I have to do is point them to my...

I have a dilemma and it is this. I'm torn between lusting after an iPad 2 and serious worries over the ethics of its manufacture . The...

One of the challenges of the artificial culture project that we knew we would face from the start is that of making sense of the free runnin...

A friend has asked me to check out her Aibo robot dog, called Max. Here he is: Cute eh? He's an early ERS-210 model. Charges up ok, ...

We're all very excited because FIRA (the Federation of International Robot soccer Association), which runs an annual competition for ro...

Four short months and 135 tweets ago I wrote about joining Twitter . Slightly reluctant, confused by how it worked and - if I'm complete...

When giving talks about intelligent robots I've often been faced with the question "how intelligent is your robot?" with a ton...

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...