Alan Winfield's Web Log

For many researchers the Holy Grail of robotics and AI is the creation of artificial persons: artefacts with equivalent general competencies...

Here are the slides for my keynote, presented this morning at the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2019) . The ...

A couple of days ago I gave a short 15 minute talk at an excellent 5x15 event in Bristol . The talk I actually gave was different to the one...

In preparation for a meeting of the WEF global AI council today , we were asked the question: What do you think are the top three pol...

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...