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Please Follow Me to the Next Stop
Read moreA Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK Delighted to have supported this research through hosting researchers and students from the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub, RAi UK and the University of Nottingham DTP2224 (Doctoral Training Partnerships) awards at our facility.
Manufacturing Technology
Read moreCobot Maker Space Lab Manager and Research Fellow Dominic Price contributes to this interesting article in Manufacturing Technology entitled ‘The Cobots are Coming’.
Welcome to the Horizon Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet Project Team
Read moreThe Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet (W-WATI) project is one of Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute’s Welfare Campaign projects. The project team will be using the Cobot Maker Space throughout their research. The W-WATI project conducts a suite of activities to address different dimensions of wellbeing in the workplace as0…
Welcome to 20 New Users!
Read moreSince welcoming Phoebe to our facility in October, we have registered a further 21 new users! Xinyu, an Undergraduate student working on Software Engineering group project. Carolina, a Masters student aiming to develop and evaluate an IMU-based motion analysis system with 3D modelling capabilities that enhance upper limb rehabilitation for0…
RAi UK Co-ordinating Keystone workshop
Read moreLast week we hosted a workshop for our colleagues from RAi UK. The event highlighted five innovative, multidisciplinary projects developed in collaboration with stakeholders to tackle emerging AI challenges.
Driving new fundamental research
Read moreThe Cobot Maker Space is delighted to be hosting a workshop Autumn 2025 as part of the UK-RAS Networks Robotics and Autonomous Systems Project ‘Principles of Learning from Unstructured Human-Robot Interactions’. The community engagement workshop will take place with UK-RAS members and wider stakeholders and will include reflections on earlier0…
Welcome Pheobe
Read moreWe welcome Pheobe to the Cobot Maker Space. Pheobe is an Undergraduate student working on a project that aims to create a more user-friendly and efficient framework to allow users (people, nutritionists, dieticians, etc.) to exploit the multimodality of interaction (gesture, language, etc.) for specific use-cases of AI in the0…
Welcome Shaowei
Read moreWe welcome Shaowei to the Cobot Maker. Shaowei is an Undergraduate Student exploring mixed reality based multimodal interaction for remote telemanipulation.
Welcome Pedro
Read moreWe welcome Pedro to the Cobot Maker Space. Pedro is a PhD student focusing on improving the precision and efficiency of teleoperated robot arm control for pick-and-place tasks. The user will receive multiple feedback modalities, including visual, cutaneous, and mixed feedback, to guide them through the correct path and help0…
Welcome Nishi
Read moreWe welcome Nishi to the Cobot Maker Space. Nishi is an Undergraduate student working on a project encompassing autonomising drones to identify and prioritise high-risk areas post natural disaster. The aim of this research is to support first responders in lower income countries that suffer from increasing natural disasters who0…
Please Follow Me to the Next Stop
Read moreA Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK Delighted to have supported this research through hosting researchers and students from the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub, RAi UK and the University of Nottingham DTP2224 (Doctoral Training Partnerships) awards at our facility.
Manufacturing Technology
Read moreCobot Maker Space Lab Manager and Research Fellow Dominic Price contributes to this interesting article in Manufacturing Technology entitled ‘The Cobots are Coming’.
Welcome to the Horizon Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet Project Team
Read moreThe Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet (W-WATI) project is one of Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute’s Welfare Campaign projects. The project team will be using the Cobot Maker Space throughout their research. The W-WATI project conducts a suite of activities to address different dimensions of wellbeing in the workplace as0…
Welcome to 20 New Users!
Read moreSince welcoming Phoebe to our facility in October, we have registered a further 21 new users! Xinyu, an Undergraduate student working on Software Engineering group project. Carolina, a Masters student aiming to develop and evaluate an IMU-based motion analysis system with 3D modelling capabilities that enhance upper limb rehabilitation for0…
RAi UK Co-ordinating Keystone workshop
Read moreLast week we hosted a workshop for our colleagues from RAi UK. The event highlighted five innovative, multidisciplinary projects developed in collaboration with stakeholders to tackle emerging AI challenges.
Driving new fundamental research
Read moreThe Cobot Maker Space is delighted to be hosting a workshop Autumn 2025 as part of the UK-RAS Networks Robotics and Autonomous Systems Project ‘Principles of Learning from Unstructured Human-Robot Interactions’. The community engagement workshop will take place with UK-RAS members and wider stakeholders and will include reflections on earlier0…
Welcome Pheobe
Read moreWe welcome Pheobe to the Cobot Maker Space. Pheobe is an Undergraduate student working on a project that aims to create a more user-friendly and efficient framework to allow users (people, nutritionists, dieticians, etc.) to exploit the multimodality of interaction (gesture, language, etc.) for specific use-cases of AI in the0…
Welcome Shaowei
Read moreWe welcome Shaowei to the Cobot Maker. Shaowei is an Undergraduate Student exploring mixed reality based multimodal interaction for remote telemanipulation.
Welcome Pedro
Read moreWe welcome Pedro to the Cobot Maker Space. Pedro is a PhD student focusing on improving the precision and efficiency of teleoperated robot arm control for pick-and-place tasks. The user will receive multiple feedback modalities, including visual, cutaneous, and mixed feedback, to guide them through the correct path and help0…
Welcome Nishi
Read moreWe welcome Nishi to the Cobot Maker Space. Nishi is an Undergraduate student working on a project encompassing autonomising drones to identify and prioritise high-risk areas post natural disaster. The aim of this research is to support first responders in lower income countries that suffer from increasing natural disasters who0…
Cobot Maker Space Lab Manager and #Research Fellow Dominic Price contributes to this interesting article in #Manufacturing #Technology entitled ‘The #Cobots are Coming’: https://shorturl.at/ZJEBK
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From brain Bluetooth to ‘full RoboCop’: where chip implants will be heading soon via @ConversationUK
⭐#ICRA2025 is thrilled to announce the second iteration of ICRA EXPO! This is a great opportunity to showcase cutting-edge robotic research through live demonstrations.
📆 Submissions are due April 11.
🔗 Learn more here:
📣 Just released: A report on the impact of the UKRI @tas_hub on the international research community, using @DSDimensions data. 🙌
Co-authored by Hélène Draux, @juergen_wastl & @gramchurn (@responsibleaiuk @unisouthampton).
🔗 On @figshare here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28648745.v1
A ‘golf bag’ of robotics could take dangerous jobs from humans
New robots lead the way in bomb disposal innovation
Two robot dogs worth £80,000 each have been donated to education trust