Alan Winfield's Web Log

Here are the slides of my talk at the BARA Academic Forum for Robotics meeting Robotics: from innovation to service , on Monday 20 May 2013:...

The question Robotics by Invitation asked its panel in May 2013, was: What is the single biggest obstacle preventing robotics from going ...

At the first UK Robot Ethics workshop on 25th March 2013, I offered - for discussion - the proposition that robotics is facing a Crisis of ...

I believe robotics has re-invented mind-body dualism. At the excellent European Robotics Forum last week I attended a workshop called AI ...

It's been quite awhile since I debugged a computer program. Too long. Although I miss coding, the thing I miss more is the process of fi...

One of the oft quoted paradoxes of consciousness is that we are unable to observe or experience our own conscious minds at work; that we can...

I'm very excited to be leading a new project called euRathlon - which is short for European Robotics Athlon. Up until now the projec...

Here are the slides of my Bristol TEDx talk: My key take home messages from this talk are: Big transition happening now from industri...

About 6 years ago the late amazing Richard Gregory said to me, with a twinkle in his eye, "when your robots start telling each other s...

How can we measure self-awareness in artificial systems? This was a question that came up during a meeting of the Awareness project advis...

Last week at the Cheltenham Science Festival we debated the question Can robots think? It's not a new question. Here, for instance, is ...

I've blogged before about the Symbrion project: an ambitious 5-year project to build a swarm of independently mobile autonomous robots ...

When I was a boy the term consumer electronics didn't exist. Then the sum total of household electronics was a wireless , a  radiogram ...

Last week my PhD student Mehmet started a new series of experiments in embodied behavioural evolution. The exciting new step is that we...

My first encounter with Philip Larkin was as a fresher in October 1974. As university librarian it was Larkin's annual duty to give an i...