From my pre-ARIA work, paper with the awesome Maydel Fernandez-Alonso , Gordon Love and Abi Finch on how the visual system copes with the fact that different wavelengths of light require different optical focus, just out in Journal of Vision

I'm excited about the idea of an ARIA robotics prize! Deadline approaching for organisations interested in partnering with us to deliver one.

A real milestone moment - the first ARIA programme goes live for applications. As a reminder, ARIA funding can be awarded to essentially any kind of entity, and is not limited to UK applicants.

There’s one week left (25th March) to apply to be my #2 at ARIA. You don’t need past qualifications in AI. The key skills are interfacing with heterogenous R&D teams, managing/triaging lengthy multidimensional priority-queues, and facilitating collaborative progress.

A great opportunity to play a key role in an ambitious programme re precision neurotech for human therapeutics -- neuroscience colleagues, please signal-boost

Really excited that the second ARIA funding call is now live. This is the first call within davidad 🎇 's programme, aiming to develop languages to precisely specify, verify, and control the behaviour of AI systems against formal requirements.

Chuffed to see Vivek Nityananda and my (pre-ARIA) research on praying mantis stereopsis used as a case study in philosophy of science by University of Iowa's Carrie Figdor: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

With ARIA colleagues, I'll be at Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston next week and then Automate Show in Chicago. Like to meet? DM me! Major funding call for robot dexterity research coming in June; later, seed funding on robotic hardware more generally aria.org.uk/what-were-work…

Are you interested in getting involved in my upcoming robotics research programme but not sure in what capacity / need to find partners? See this post on LinkedIn where I'm trying out a way to link people up! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Great opportunity to come and work with the wonderful @AngelaClaireW on creating programmable plants

Stand by for my funding call in robot dexterity coming in the next few weeks…

(laughs in recognition) Like Britain and America, disciplinary fields are so often divided by a common language.

Lacking data about what is happening to our climate, we risk stumbling into devastating feedback loops. So it's incredibly important that Sarah Bohndiek and Gemma Bale at ARIA are developing an early warning system for the planet.

Plus another Technical Specialist role goes live at ARIA - officially the best place to work by the way.

Thinking of applying to my programme funding work on robot dexterity? Check out updated doc here with more details on programme structure. Please do sign up via link in doc so we can keep you posted re latest developments! aria.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

I will be forever grateful for my The Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Good luck to everyone applying in this year’s round.

Really excited about the ARIA programme in Precision Neurotechnologies, led by my amazing colleague Jacques Carolan . Can’t wait to see what comes out of this!

In addition to the live call for programme applications, we’re also offering smaller Opportunity Seed funding for standalone, highly innovative research advancing robot hardware. Light touch application and ultra rapid decisions. aria.org.uk/seeds-smarter-…

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