Seen it all - particularly like the one on HRI and SLAM!

I had the privilege of talking to wonderful 🤖Nicci Rossouw about robots, art and entrepreneurship recently on her podcast "Let's talk robotics". Check it out and also all the other fabulous guests on this podcast series. linkedin.com/posts/nicci-ro…

Robotics is a fast-changing discipline that is no longer just engineering. It has implications across society and the economy - are you keeping up with these developments? Join us for a conversation about where Australian Robotics is heading. 🤖Book now bit.ly/3TwUofo

I miss(ed a bit of) SLAM

Come join us for a book launch event with Dr Sue Keay FTSE @eltwilliams, Dr Max Cappuccio, and Bhante Sujato, with Will J Grant as the moderator. This should be fun, challenging and enlightening at the same time! The book is "Foundations of Robotics" Kinova David St-Onge

An *open-source* introductory text on robotics—perfect for artists who want an in depth primer—by the amazing damith and funded by Kinova ✨ foundations-of-robotics.org

This collection of papers gives a (very good) glimpse at some of the *essential* perspectives artistic collaborations can bring to roboticists work. I really enjoyed co-editing this with damith, Christian Kroos and Elizabeth Jochum. ------------ Cet ense…lnkd.in/eSHdRctA

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic MP visiting the UC HCT Collaborative Robotics Lab and talking to damith and students showcasing various #Robotics projects, before launching the National Robotics Strategy discussion paper

Book in for A Conversation with a Robot! Chat to Pepper, the most advanced AI-driven retail robot in the world at #UnchartedTerritoryCBR, with this project helmed by damith, Janie BG and Jenny Davis Register here: bit.ly/3NEbRBT #UniCBR

Who’s responsible when robots go rogue? Join Stelarc damith @brucearnoldlaw and Nicci Rossouw as they dive deep into the intricacies of human-robot relationships on 7 July, at Uncharted Territory festival in Canberra. Register here👇 eventbrite.com.au/e/will-sex-rob…

First, "Role-Taking and Robotic Form: An Exploratory Study of Social Connection in Human-Robot Interaction" where participants felt as 'seen' by robots as other human collaborators based on their design. By Jenny Davis damith Anne Groggel & Dr. Love doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhc…

An article about my vociferous support of open source AI platforms. Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman (among others) have scared governments about what they claim are risks of AI-fueled catastrophes. I know that Demis, at least, is sincere in his claims, but I think

I'm glad someone's noticed ... Australia’s research sector chases rankings over quality and is ‘not fit for purpose’, chief scientist says theguardian.com/australia-news…

Calling all roboticists! The terrific IEEE Robots Guide with the latest news and thousands of robot profiles is a finalist in the Science Category for The Webby Awards: please take 15 seconds to vote — Today is the last day to vote! (Please repost) vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

Voyager 1, launched Sept 5, 1977, is furtherest human artifact from Earth, over 15B miles, 24B kms. Magnificent remote debugging has it back sending understandable data after 6 month outage. Flight Data Subsystem computer, 7400 series TI chips (see image), with 8K 16 bit words of

This is so very insightful @MikellTaylor. Thank you!!

Come to our ICRA workshop on artist residencies in robotics labs and movement notation! roboticart.org/icra-2024-work…

.Dr. Catie Cuan in Yokohama kicking off #icra2024 #robotsandart with her work at #everydayrobots — making a world she wants to live in (and she wants her dad to live in) 🩷

At the latest innovation event hosted by the Canberra Cyber Hub and University of Canberra, Adam Haskard from Bluerydge and damith herath from UC, led a fascinating conversation about the realities and complexities of security in robotics systems. #UniCBR

First impressions of a humanoid social robot with natural language capabilities go.nature.com/448WtXr