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Walking With Robots at Manchester Science Festival
Walking With Robots is delivering a series of exciting events as part of Manchester Science Festival including a huge exhibition and demo/activities area at the Museum of Science and Industry with a robot ferry competition, Bridget the Mars Rover, an animatronic butterfly and areas on swarms and search&rescue. Plus two cafe sci events - one for young people on domesticated robots and one for adults on big questions in the news, and Roaming With Robots, taking robots into spaces around the city. Here are links to the events:
- Footballing robots
- A pub guide to robots
- Robot scenes
- Robotics networking event
- Robots in the home: Coming soon or urban myth?
- Walking with Robots: What are the questions?
- Robo-mania at the Museum of Science and Industry
- Date: 24 - 27 October 2009
Upcoming events
Intelligent Robots: Current Reality and Future Possibilities
- Date: Friday 9 October 2009
- Location: University of the 3rd Age (U3A), Weston super Mare
- Contact: Prof Alan Winfield
Event Themes:
Tomorrow's Technology
- Date: October 2009 (date tbc)
- Location: Royal Institution, London
- Contact: Prof Alan Winfield
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.