Alan Winfield's Web Log

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

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...