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Robots in museums

This project is exploring potential uses of robots in museums, such as increasing visitor engagement and accessibility. As robots become more prevalent in public spaces, we want to understand the perspectives and experiences of the diverse range of people in those spaces and examine interaction with and around the robots.

Cat Royale

Autonomous systems are now ubiquitous. They control homes, planes and cars; criminal sentencing and mortgage approvals. Facial recognition systems track citizens. Robots are moving from factories into homes...

Cheerbot

We are excited to be collaborating with our University colleagues on Cheerbot – a project investigating the capacity for robotic technologies to foster wellbeing in the workplace. Recognising that low staff wellbeing is an issue at universities...

Embodied trust in TAS: robots, dance, different bodies

The project is exploring the idea of deeply embodied trust in autonomous systems through a process of bringing expert moving bodies into harmony with robots. Working with professional dancers who have different disabilities...

FAILSAFE

Future domestic robotic assistants will be complex hybrid consumer products, integrated into human living spaces to perform daily tasks with us. While robotics technologies have seen a rapid advance in the last decade, state-of-the-art robotic...

Go Ahead I’m Listening (GAIL)

We welcome the ‘GAIL’ project to the Cobot Maker Space. GAIL is a TAS Hub Agile and Integrator Round 3 project and runs from 1/9/2023 until 31/8/2024. Would you trust a robot more if it exhibits more human-like behaviour? Human-like behaviour in a robot could amount to a ‘dark pattern’ that could be exploited by malignant actors, thus it is important to strike the right balance...

Telepresence Robot Playground (TERPLAY)

We welcome the Telepresence Robot Playground team to the Cobot Maker Space. This is a TAS Hub Agile and Integrator Round 3 project, led by Gisela Reyes Cruz, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Modern telepresence robots are semi-autonomous mobile devices that provide remote access into a setting, allowing users not only to video call but move around the space, either manually or autonomously...

TAS ART: Augmented Robotic Telepresence Integrator

Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) have autonomous systems features such as collision avoidance, they do not however typically allow for physical manipulation of the environment, have been found to engender limited trustworthiness, and have yet to achieve widespread adoption...

Digital Twins for Human – Assistive Robot Teams

In order to accelerate the development and deployment of assistive robots in health and social care, the Digital Twins for Human-Assistive Robot Teams project will investigate approaches for developing and using digital twins which incorporate co-dependent and co-evolved models representing patients and assistive robots...

CHART

Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) is an interdisciplinary research group based at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. The group conducts foundational and applied research in intelligent...