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https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/10/day-off-sick-with-head-cold-and-painful.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: A Mac with new spots: installing Leopard A day off sick with a head cold and painful sinuses had one consolation. I had a little time this afternoon to install Leopard - the new ver... alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2015/02/like-doing-brain-surgery-on-robots.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Like doing brain surgery on robots I spent a rare few hours in the lab the last few days, actually doing research. Or at least attempting to. Actually I made no progress at a... alan winfieldweb logbrain surgery https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2021/05/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: May 2021 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logmay https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2017/07/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: July 2017 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjuly https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: 2009 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/03/dino-sapiens.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Homo dinosauroid Last night's Horizon was promising: what might have happened if the asteroid that is generally agreed to have triggered the extinction even... alan winfieldweb loghomo https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/02/e-puck-outing.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: An e-puck outing At a little over 5 cm tall the e-pucks are remarkable little robots. Here is a picture from the web pages of supplier and all round good peo... alan winfieldweb logpuckouting https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2020/12/word-perfect.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Word Perfect Back in June I signed up for an online course on Writing Short Stories (the next steps) , run by the Bishopsgate Institute . The course was ... alan winfieldweb logwordperfect https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2017/06/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: June 2017 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjune https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/08/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: August 2010 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logaugust https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/07/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: July 2011 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjuly https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-world-robotics-reality-check.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Real-world robotics reality check This week's European Land Robotics trials (ELROB) in the beautiful countryside of Hammelburg provided the assembled roboticists with a salut... alan winfieldweb logreal worldroboticsreality https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/06/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: June 2010 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjune https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/04/epsrc-how-event.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: EPSRC HOW? event Spent a most interesting day today at EPSRC HQ in Swindon. I was one of several academics asked to come and exhibit their work to the staff... alan winfieldweb logepsrcevent https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/05/anthropomorphism-and-robotics.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Anthropomorphism and robotics Spent the last two days at a really interesting workshop: Practices of Anthropomorphism: from Automata to Robotics . The best thing about th... alan winfieldweb loganthropomorphismrobotics https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/09/taros-lecture-ethical-roboticist.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: TAROS lecture: The Ethical Roboticist Here are the slides for the IET public lecture I gave in Sheffield on 2 September 2011 on the final day of the conference Towards Autonomou... alan winfieldweb logtaroslectureethical https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/10/well-i-cant-believe-im-on-twitter.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Twitter Well, I can't believe I'm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alan_winfield Not at all sure I understand what I'm doing yet. There' some puzzlin... alan winfieldweb logtwitter https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/ Alan Winfield's Web Log Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweblog https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2022/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: 2022 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/07/could-robot-have-feelings.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Could a robot have feelings? One of the great pleasures of giving public lectures is the questions that come from the audience, and my talk last week to the Bath U3A gro... alan winfieldweb logcouldrobotfeelings https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/12/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: December 2009 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logdecember https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-intelligent-are-intelligent-robots.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: How Intelligent are Intelligent Robots? When giving talks about intelligent robots I've often been faced with the question "how intelligent is your robot?" with a tone of voice tha... alan winfieldweb logintelligentrobots https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/08/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: August 2007 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logaugust https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2006/03/on-linux.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: On Linux Or, why GNU/Linux isn't going to take over the world just yet. I just spent a gruelling weekend installing the excellent open source Player/... alan winfieldweb loglinux https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2006/02/on-free-will-and-noisy-brains.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: On free will and noisy brains Consider that humblest of automata: the room thermostat. It has a sensor (temperature) and an actuator (boiler on/off control) and some arti... alan winfieldweb logfree will https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2008/08/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: August 2008 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logaugust https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/05/machine-intelligence-fake-or-real.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Machine intelligence: fake or real? A few days ago, at the excellent HowTheLightGetsIn festival, I took part in a panel debate called Rise of the Machines. Here was the brief:... alan winfieldweb logmachine intelligencefakereal https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2014/06/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: June 2014 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjune https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-what-brains-are-for.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: On what brains are for Just started reading Sue Blackmore's new book: Conversations on Consciousness. Great introduction - but I have stalled already on Q2 of the ... alan winfieldweb logbrains https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/03/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: March 2010 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logmarch https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/12/mimetic-factors-in-health-and-well.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Mimetic Factors in Health and Well-being On Monday I gave a talk at an amazingly interesting workshop in Warwick. Part of a project called Mimetic Factors in Health and Well-being ... alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2016/03/its-only-matter-of-time.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: It's only a matter of time Sooner or later there will be fatal accident caused by a driverless car. It's not a question of if, but when. What happens immediately follo... alan winfieldweb logmatter of https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/04/ill-robots-might-get-temperature-too.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Ill robots might get a temperature too Just spent 4 days at the beautiful Schloss Dagstuhl in SW Germany attending a seminar on Artificial Immune Systems . The Dagstuhl is a rema... alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/05/artificial-culture-in-prague.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Robotic Visions goes nationwide Really great news. We learned today that our EPSRC bid to take Robotic Visions nationwide has been granted. Let me explain what Robotic Vi... alan winfieldweb logroboticvisionsgoes https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2010/01/ethical-roboticist.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: The Ethical Roboticist I strongly believe that researchers in intelligent robotics, autonomous systems and AI can no longer undertake their research in a moral vac... alan winfieldweb logethical https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/03/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: March 2007 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logmarch https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2014/10/robotics-needs-to-get-political.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Robotics needs to get Political A couple of weeks ago I was a panelist on a public debate at the 2014 Battle of Ideas . The title of the debate was The robots are coming:... alan winfieldweb logto getroboticsneeds https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-robot.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: What is a robot? A few weeks ago we had a visitor to the lab who asked a seemingly straightforward question: "what is a robot?". A perfectly reasonable quest... alan winfieldweb logwhat isrobot https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2012/06/60-years-of-asking-can-robots-think.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: 60 years of asking Can Robots Think? Last week at the Cheltenham Science Festival we debated the question Can robots think? It's not a new question. Here, for instance, is a wo... alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2011/01/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: January 2011 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logjanuary https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2006/06/life-was-tough-for-early-memes.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Life was tough for early memes The really great memes* don't just emerge by chance. They have to be thought of, discovered, invented, created; not necessarily intentionall... alan winfieldweb log https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/05/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: May 2009 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logmay https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2017/02/thoughts-on-eus-draft-report-on-robotics.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Thoughts on the EU's draft report on robotics A few weeks ago I was asked to write a short op-ed on the European Parliament Law Committee's recommendations on civil law rules for robotic... alan winfieldweb logthoughts on https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/12/ Alan Winfield's Web Log: December 2007 Mostly, but not exclusively, about robots alan winfieldweb logdecember https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-to-make-ethical-robot-and-why-we.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: How to make an ethical robot, and why we probably shouldn't On Thursday 5th June I gave a keynote talk for workshop Machines with Morals: interdisciplinary perspectives organised by Rebecca Raper and... https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-worst-that-could-happen-why-we.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: What's the worst that could happen? Why we need robot/AI accident... Robots. What could possibly go wrong? Imagine that your elderly mother, or grandmother, has an assisted living robot to help her live inde... https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2007/12/future-doesnt-just-happen-we-must-own.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: The future doesn't just happen, we must own it Had a remarkable couple of days last week. Walking with Robots (WWR), the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) and the London Engineering Proj... https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2009/10/now-i-can-really-focus-on-research-and.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Now I can really focus on Research and Public Engagement 1st October today and a new job within UWE. I'm seconded out of my associate dean role(s) within environment and technology so that I can st... https://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2018/02/ethical-governance-what-is-it-and-whos.html Alan Winfield's Web Log: Ethical Governance: what is it and who's doing it? These days I often find myself talking about ethical governance. Not just talking about but advocating: for instance in written evidence t... what is it