Walking with Robots

Walking with Robots Launch Event

Possible the largest gathering of humans and robots will take place at the Walking with Robots launch event. All the network members will be present, and each researcher has to bring a friend but it can't be a human. Guests at the reception include senior government representatives, funding council members, robotics experts, industry representatives, the media and of course a few robot friends, who will be allowed as much electricity as they can handle.

• Date: 23rd October 2006, 18.30pm
• Location: Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London
• Contact: Claire Rocks

Robot Thought

Thinktank, in partnership with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, kick off this leg of the national roll out of this interactive dialogue event, designed to challenge and stimulate public thinking about the latest developments in robotics.

• Date: weekends at 2.30pm, likely to run until February
• Location: Thinktank, Birmingham
• Admission: Free to Thinktank visitors
• Contact: Karen Bultitude
• Visit: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/graphicscience/

FIRST LEGO League / RoboCupJunior stand

• Date: Thursday 16th - Saturday 18th November 2006
• Location: D+T with ICT Education Show, NEC Birmingham
• Contact: Dr Ashley Green
• Visit: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/

FIRST LEGO League South West Tournament

First Lego League is an international programme for children aged between 9 and 16 years that combines a hands-on, interactive robotics program with a sports-like atmosphere using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System. Thirty-two primary school teams participating in the South West Tournament. Tuesday 28th saw a similar number of secondary school teams compete for their place in the finals.

• Date: Monday 27th November 2006
• Location: University of Bath
• Contact: Claire Rocks
• Visit: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/

Café Scientifique

• Date: Tuesday 28th November 2006
• Location: Bristol Science Cafe
• Contact: Professor Alan Winfield
• Visit: http://www.cafescientifique.org/

FIRST LEGO League Milton Keynes Tournament

First Lego League is an international programme for children aged between 9 and 16 years that combines a hands-on, interactive robotics program with a sports-like atmosphere using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System.

• Date: Monday 4th December 2006
• Location: Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
• Contact: Dr Ashley Green
• Visit: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/

About twenty teams will be participating from schools in Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.

Meet the Scientist

Professor Alan Winfield is available to meet the public to talk about his research in intelligent robotics.

• Date: Thursday 7th December 2006
• Location: ThinkTank Birmingham (as part of Robot Thought)
• Contact: Professor Alan Winfield
• Visit: http://www.thinktank.ac/

BCS SGAI Conference Workshop on Intelligent Robots

The annual conference if the SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence.

• Date: Thursday 7th December 2006
• Location: Cambridge
• Contact: Professor Alan Winfield
• Visit: http://www.bcs-sgai.org/