Designability is a charity who has helped over a 1000 families through their free Wizzybug loan scheme designability.org.uk/support-wizzyb… I feel very privileged to have worked with their amazing team, a learning experience which transformed my thinking and approach to my research.

.Sanja Dogramadzi and I are thrilled to congratulate Antonella Antonella for passing her PhD viva today with her research on Quantifying Human-Robot Interaction by Developing a Measure for Safe Collaboration on the Socrates Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Another fantastic Emergence Health Technologies Network Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Healthcare Tech Network+ workshop emergencerobotics.net/events-and-net… with healthcare professionals role-playing scenarios in the Cobot Maker Space Computer Science, Uni of Nottingham CHART Research Group to explore use of robots & HCP training needs - demo of backward chaining

Super exciting to welcome our new assistant profs Lucas Fonseca and Luis Figueredo and six new PhD students to our Cyber-physical Health & Assistive Robotics Technologies CHART Research Group research group chartresearch.org/people Computer Science, Uni of Nottingham Cobot Maker Space

Robotics+Care Mashup- Hackathon sponsored by our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council CHART Research Group Emergence Health Technologies Network Health Tech Network+ facilitating an interdisciplinary person-centred approach for emergence of robots from labs into service, awards & mentoring for winning teams eventbrite.co.uk/e/robotic-care…

Ditto! Putting the finishing touches on my workshop slides where I'll introduce our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Emergence Health Technologies Network and The Alan Turing Institute Accessible AI Knowledge Cafe empathy cards as provocations for the teams to consider responsible research and innovation Computer Science, Uni of Nottingham CHART Research Group

Looking forward to sharing our learning from the use of telepresence robots Robotics For Good CIC to support volunteers recruited via Age UK Bristol and older people to socialise and exercise together thanks to Kirsty Brown

We are proud to announce that Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN is the first university in the UK to be awarded an institution-wide Athena Swan Gold Award! Recognising our commitment and success in promoting and improving gender equality. ▶️ ow.ly/Wj2L50QbW6S Advance HE #WeAreUoN

Wizzybug fun Friday post! Designability do fantastic work!

Contact me if you are interested in doing a PhD on Tele-rehabilitation Robotics, Ambient and Physiological Sensing using Machine Learning and AI in collaboration with the National Rehabilitation Centre NRC UK CHART Research Group Cobot Maker Space Computer Science, Uni of Nottingham Fully funded studentship for UK students

Jim Torresen kicking off our workshop ICRA 0n Robot Ethics sites.google.com/view/icra2024-…

I will be launching our Emergence Health Technologies Network Empathy Cards in an interactive session ICRA for sites.google.com/view/icra2024-…

If you would like a copy of our Emergence Health Technologies Network Empathy Cards cardographer.cs.nott.ac.uk/sessions/654a3… please contact us through our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Emergence network

How can we increase trust in robot benchmarking and how can we benchmark trustworthy robots? Our new paper link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… presents some findings obtained in the context of our recently finished METRICS project joint work Praminda Caleb-Solly et al.

Thought provoking talk by Cian O'Donovan at ECE2024 IAFOR which I found as a call to action in reconsidering how we seem to be normalising the view of AI as a panacea for all our problems, while ignoring unintended consequences

Thank you. Honoured to have been appointed to this strategic role National Rehabilitation Centre NRC UK nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk

Representing National Rehabilitation Centre NRC UK Computer Science, Uni of Nottingham Uni of Nottingham School of Medicine #WeAreUoN at the The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibits on Tour at Jodrell Bank with our Revolutionising Rehabilitation vision brought to life by Simon Castle-Green CHART Research Group ukras.org.uk/robotics-week/… come along if you are in the area tomorrow

These beautiful jewels of chocolate are the most scrumptious treats from Bossa Nova Chocolate each one lovingly made by my award winning chocolatier friend Dr Andrea Staggemeier Celebrating her achievements youtu.be/C3YdlFM3UuE?si…