Alan Winfield's Web Log

Here's a test for a general purpose robot: to pass the test it must go into someone's kitchen (previously unseen) and make them a cu...

This month saw the first important milestone toward Autonomous Robot Evolution : the Bristol and York team demonstrated automated assembly o...

When I wrote about story-telling robots  nearly 7 years ago I had no idea how we could actually build robots that can tell each other storie...

Just spent an exciting two days at the first 'all hands meeting' of our new EPSRC funded project: Autonomous Robot Evolution (ARE): ...

Since setting out my initial thoughts on robots with simulation-based internal models about 5 years ago - initially in the context of ethica...

Followers of this blog will know that I have been working for some years on simulation-based internal models - demonstrating their potentia...

A few weeks ago we had the kick-off meeting, in York, of our new 4 year EPSRC funded project  Autonomous Robot Evolution (ARE): cradle to gr...

Here are the slides from my York Festival of Ideas keynote yesterday, which introduced the festival focus day  Artificial Intelligence: Pro...

Readers of this blog will know that I've become very excited by the potential of robots with simulation-based internal models in recent...

The imitation of goals is an extremely important form of social learning in humans. This is reflected in the early emergence of imitation in...

This week my colleague Dieter Vanderelst presented our paper: The Dark Side of Ethical Robots at AIES 2018  in New Orleans. I blogged ab...

These days I often find myself talking about ethical governance. Not just talking about but advocating: for instance in written evidence  t...

This blogpost is a round up of the various sets of ethical principles of robotics and AI that have been proposed to date, ordered by date of...