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Sep 28 2011

O C Robotics Snake-Arm Technology

Latest report from my sponsors. OC Robotics have already carried out contracts for the Swedish and Canadian nuclear industries so obviously time to do some work at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15073514

Also from Radio 4 ‘Robots That Care’ by Jon Stewart

Episode 1 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0150m8m

Episode 2 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b015bxq4

Sep 23 2011

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Sociorobotics

Robot Companions from David Naylor

This short film was also taken from robotfilmfestival.com and is a humorous but informed take on companion robotics.

Sep 17 2011

BBC Radio 4 – Moral Robots?

Listen Here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b014fkx7/

Google’s zero carbon footprint and other tech news September 18, 2020
BBC Click’s Paul Carter reports on some of the best technology news stories this week.
Could VR help universities teach students? September 16, 2020
With social distancing rules in place, universities are looking at new ways to educate students.
How e-commerce is exploding in South Africa September 17, 2020
E-commerce has been one sector that has boomed in South Africa during the pandemic.
‘You get fully submerged’ - Taser training in VR September 15, 2020
The virtual worlds helping to train and sharpen the skills of a UK police force.
'Anxiety app helped me at my new school' says Essex pupil September 16, 2020
Maisie, 11, speaks about how a new app funded by the NHS helped her cope as she started a new school.

Where’s My Robot? May 29, 2015
Robots and Mental Health Robotics in general terms needs to think past outdated and outmoded perceptions of what robots should look like… Mori warned us many years ago… our human-robot interactions need more imagination now… probably more than ever before. Health and social robotics are very personal, ontological even… and personal robots require characteris […]
Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn! November 8, 2012
Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn and could actually be better than their human counterparts… good grief whatever next? Link to BBC report here Thanks for the link Jack
Dr Cynthia Breazeal & Professor Brian Scassellati on Social Robotics and exactly what Social Robots could achieve! October 27, 2012
Dr Cynthia Breazeal from MIT is a specialist in social robotics and her 2008 presentation at the Singularity Summit below gives an informed and accessible summary of developments in sociable robotics. Professor Brian Scassellati from Yale has recently gained funding for a 5 year $10 million multi-university (U.S.) effort towards building socially assistive […]
Personal Modular Robot May 22, 2012
The two cloth climbing examples below inspire the idea of a modular personal robot which can detach from its base and climb onto the lap or even perhaps the bed of its user. The utility of a robot with these abilities presents multiple scenarios and health monitoring/telepresence possibilities for disabled and elderly people. The base […]
‘Robot and Frank’ May 16, 2012
Robot and Frank is a new film previewed at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year. It presents & investigates relationships between an elderly man with early stage Alzheimer’s, a health/social/care equipped humanoid robot and Frank’s family members – in short a future care network! I get the feeling that this film may well […]
Eden Alternative – In the Community April 27, 2012
After reading this article here I was interested to find out a little more about Professor Bill Thomas the founder of the Eden Alternative and its influence here in the UK. The Eden Alternative is a movement that is “dedicated to transforming care environments into habitats for human beings that promote quality of life for […]
Care Home Abuse in the UK April 24, 2012
In recent years the exposure of failing state aided services for the elderly has gathered pace in the UK. The video below taken from BBC’s Panorama is the latest and probably the most disturbing, gratuitous & shocking example we have seen to date. https://youtu.be/N5hjHBtO-yY It’s worrying to note however that this abuse was only exposed […]
OCULUS Laptop Robot March 3, 2012
These are the kind of ideas which will make robots common place in our homes, simple and inexpensive – http://www.xaxxon.com/shop This basic idea could be replicated with an iPhone as the ‘brains’ and Oculus could be replaced with more sophisticated, all terrain robot platforms which can climb or drive or even fly. For instance, the […]
Care-O-Bot 3 February 16, 2012
These robots appear to have been produced with research from Prof Kerstin Dautehahn and her team at The Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Herts) in collaboration with Fraunhofer IPA. To their credit they seem to be heading towards a commercially available open source product rather than hiding behind the usual robotics idiom of ‘new research [… […]
Fujitsu Teddy Bear Robot February 8, 2012
At last an attempt to make a decent companion robot. Cute as he is though, he doesn’t seem to actually do very much. He’s certainly not mobile and interaction is sadly lacking despite claims that he has the ability to recognise human emotion. I still get the feeling that these large corporations haven’t spent enough […]

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Monthly Archives: September 2011

O C Robotics Snake-Arm Technology

Robot Companions from David Naylor

BBC Radio 4 – Moral Robots?