Robotics

This seminar will introduce new robot designs being developed which include compliance, variable stiffness and physical softness to allow safer human interaction in the manufacturing sector and beyond. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Title: "Exploration of Affect Sensing in Multimodal Interaction" Bio: Li Zhang is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in Northumbria University and also serving as an Honorary Research Fellow in University of Birmingham, UK. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Title: "Robot Perception and Creativity Exploiting Conceptual Spaces" Bio: Antonio Chella is a full professor in Robotics at the University of Palermo and an associate researcher at CNR (the Italian National Research Council). [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Title: "The Most Complex Machines Ever" Bio: Prof. Phillips is a Principal Staff Engineer at ARM Ltd, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Plymouth. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Title: Predictive Learning as a Key for Cognitive Development: New Insight from Developmental Robotics Abstract: Robotics research has a potential to yield new insights about infant development. Investigating neural models for robots to acquire social behaviors could lead to a better understanding of underlying mechanisms for human cognition. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]