Alan Winfield's Web Log

Here are the slides of my keynote at last week's excellent  EUCog meeting: Social and Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Systems . And the t...

It is summer 1985. I'm visiting Caltech with colleague and PhD supervisor Rod Goodman . Rod has just been appointed in the Electrical E...

Why aren't there more intelligent mobile robots in real world applications? It's a good question, and one I'm often asked. The ...

At the excellent  European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) a couple of weeks ago we presented a paper called The Triangle of Life: Evo...

From time to time I like to visit Skyrim . I've been going there for about 2 years - completed the main quest a year or so ago, and sinc...

When a robot ethics working group met nearly three years ago one of the things we fretted about was privacy. We were concerned especially a...

A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot , which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Bosto...

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...