Alan Winfield's Web Log

Philosopher Thomas Nagel famously characterised subjective experience as “something that it is like to be…” and suggested that for a bat, f...

Several weeks ago I wrote about our work on robots with internal models : robots with a simulation of themselves and their environment insi...

Here is the submitted text for the article  Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein's monster , published in The Obser...

Republished here is a short piece for  The Conversation :  4-4-2 becomes 0101: inside the competitive world of robot football , published 4 ...

So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain. For a couple of years I've been thinking abou...

Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are 3 approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it....

There have been several stories in the last few weeks about emotional robots ; robots that feel. Some are suggesting that this is the next b...

Last week I attended the  launch event  for a new  NESTA  publication called  Our work here is done: Visions of a Robot Economy . It was an...

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers , all ...

This was the latest question posed to the Robotics by Invitation panel on Robohub . Here, reposted, is my answer. Judging by the level...

Space robotics is understandably conservative. When the cost of putting a robot on a planet, moon or asteroid runs into billions we need to...

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of learning: individual learning and social learning. Individual learning means learning something enti...

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...