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Walking With Robots at the Brighton Science Festival
What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do? What are the possibilities for the future?
The science-fiction vision of robots that are smarter than humans is still just a dream. However, robots are having an increasing impact on human lives worldwide. Robots are already used in exploring space and helping surgeons. They are set to become increasingly common in our homes and workplaces.
Come and meet some of the people and the robots at the cutting edge of robotics research in the UK. Walking with Robots will be presenting a variety of robotic activities.
- Date: 21st - 22nd February 2009
- Location: Hove Park Upper School, Nevill Road, Hove
- Admission: 7-15 yr olds £4, 15+ year olds £6, under 7's free
- Contact: Dr Claire Rocks
- Visit: Brighton Science Festival
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Walking With Robots at the Brighton Science Festival
What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do? What are the possibilities for the future?
The science-fiction vision of robots that are smarter than humans is still just a dream. However, robots are having an increasing impact on human lives worldwide. Robots are already used in exploring space and helping surgeons. They are set to become increasingly common in our homes and workplaces.
Come and meet some of the people and the robots at the cutting edge of robotics research in the UK. Walking with Robots will be presenting a variety of robotic activities.
- Date: 28th February 2009
- Location: Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton
- Admission: Tickets £ 10, Concessions £ 6
- Contact: Dr Claire Rocks
- Visit: Brighton Science Festival
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Robots in Space
Ashley Green will give a presentation as part of a Year 10-11 parent and student's evening. The presentation will focus on recent robotic exploration of Mars, Titan and comets in the search for clues to the origins of life.
- Date: 5 March 2009
- Location: Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle
- Contact: Ashley Green
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Intelligent Robots: Current Reality and Future Possibilities
Intelligent robots are becoming ubiquitous: we're used to the idea of robots exploring Mars and, closer to home, we now have robot vacuum cleaners, robot pets and robot Lego. But these robots are very different to the fantasy robots we see in the movies. This talk will explore the amazing reality of intelligent robots, illustrated with real examples from current research in the Bristol Robotics Laboratories, and speculate about the future possibilities of robots in society from both technical and ethical perspectives.
- Date: Wednesday 11 March 2009
- Location: Portsmouth and District Physical Society, Portsmouth
- Contact: Alan Winfield
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Come and Play with our Robots
An opportunity for children with autism and their families to find out more about a variety of computer software and robots which are being developed.
- 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
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, Ashley Green will be running a lunar rover activity with pupils from Wednesfield High School. Pupils will will remotely control ('teleoperate') a lunar geology rover, relying only on the video pictures from its onboard camera for navigation information. Like the Apollo astronauts, they will be seeking a rare anorthosite rock sample amongst the rocks scattered across the lunar lowland area in which the rover has landed.
- Date: 31 March 2009
- Location: RAF Museum Cosford
- Contact: Dr Ashley Green
- Visit: Scientriffic, Wrexham Science Festival