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Young People's Views on Advanced Robotics
Walking with Robots, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and the London Engineering Project, hosted a Young People's Vision Conference in London on December 4th and 5th 2008. The event provided a unique opportunity for young people to explore visions of their future and the part robots will play.
A report outlining the views of the young people can be downloaded below.
Festival of Robotics in Manchester
Walking with Robots is planning a Festival of Robotics between 24 October - 1 November 2009. The festival will be part of the Manchester Science Festival.
If you would like to bring along an activity or event to the festival, please fill in the in the Expression of Interest Form.
If you would like to attend the festival as a volunteer, please fill in the in the Volunteer Form.
For further information please visit the Festival Wiki.
Upcoming events
Walking With Robots at the Brighton Science Festival
- Date: 21st - 22nd February 2009
- Location: Hove Park Upper School, Nevill Road, Hove
- Contact: Dr Claire Rocks
- Visit: Brighton Science Festival
Event Themes:
Walking With Robots at the Brighton Science Festival
- Date: 28th February 2009
- Location: Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton
- Contact: Dr Claire Rocks
- Visit: Brighton Science Festival
Event Themes:
Robots in Space
- Date: 5 March 2009
- Location: Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle
- Contact: Ashley Green
Event Themes:
Intelligent Robots: Current Reality and Future Possibilities
- Date: Wednesday 11 March 2009
- Location: Portsmouth and District Physical Society, Portsmouth
- Contact: Alan Winfield
Event Themes:
Come and Play with our Robots
- Date: Sunday 15th March 2009 from 1.00 to 4.00pm
- Location: UH School of Education, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield AL10 9EU
- Contact: Lynn Bhania
- Visit: Adaptive Systems Research Group
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Hunt the Anorthosite
- Date: 31 March 2009
- Location: RAF Museum Cosford
- Contact: Dr Ashley Green
- Visit: Scientriffic, Wrexham Science Festival
Event Themes:
Themes
The business of doing robotics integrates an extraordinary range of disciplines. The traditional core disciplines of electrical, mechanical and software engineering are no longer sufficient. Intelligent robotics is increasingly biologically inspired and now involves disciplines as wide ranging as insect ethology, animal behaviour, psychology and the social sciences; biology, biochemistry and computational neuroscience; artificial intelligence and evolutionary computing.
The Walking with Robots activities have been divided into five separate themes. Each theme is designed to be broad ranging but to act as a focus for the Walking with Robots programme of events.
The current theme is People, with the following aims:
Robots are real entities with whom interactions are possible, and as robots become increasingly intelligent humans will interact with robots in new and quite probably surprising ways. This theme looks at the issues surrounding robots and people, and robots as people.