My colleague Tony Prescott appeared on BBC’s Sunday morning Live this past Sunday (8 July), and we brought Pepper down to interact with the hosts, Sean Fletcher and Cherry Healey. (That’s me wrangling the robot, or trying to.) Our robot and Tony feature from the very start, at 42 minutes in (especially from the 45th minute), and at the end. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b9z98j/sunday-morning-live-series-9-episode-4
Not an interview, but a nice picture of me joining a lecture given by Prof Michele Migliore when I joined them in Palermo back in February for Esperienza inSegna 2018 to talk about Miro. (No, I didn’t talk to the students in Italian. Well, not much beyond ‘questo robot ha un cervello come a un mammifero’…)
MiRo, un rivoluzionario progetto di ricerca nel campo delle neuroscienze
Sometimes with all my professional activities I forget to make space for some of my other great loves here, ice hockey being one of them.
I’m really proud to be involved in selected and coaching this BUIHA International All-Stars, who will play the GB Universities Men’s team on 20 April, 2018 at Ice Sheffield, to help the GBU men prepare for their upcoming tournaments.
It should be a fantastic game, and a great atmosphere. Ticket information is available here.
In advance of Sheffield Robotics’ Platform for Investigation day at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on 20 January, I wrote this blog post: 5 reasons why you don’t need to fear the Robopocalypse (and 2 why you might…)
Our team from Sheffield Robotics, University of Sheffield, led by my colleague Tony Prescott, has received an AHRC grant for our Cyberselves project, to examine the transforming impact of immersive technologies on our societies and cultures.
I was part of a team from Sheffield Robotics that attended the Bluedot Festival of music and science at Jodrell Bank, UK from 7 – 9 July. MCR Live did some filming, and bits of an interview I did with them can be found here:
My colleague Tony Prescott and I co-edited a two-volumes of Connection Science dedicated to reevaluating the EPSRC’s Principles of Robotics. (Access to all the articles is free for a month.)
A press release announcing the publication can be found here.
My article can be found here.
My ‘Rapporteur’s Report‘ on the discussion can be found here.
Our editorials can be found here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).
The full contents can be found here (Vol 2) and here (Vol 3).
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, some of my colleagues from Sheffield Robotics and I were used as contributors to BBC Radio 1‘s programme ‘Can a robot replace Ed Sheeran?‘.
BBC Radio 4 presenter Mark Mardell visited Sheffield Robotics recently and wrote this article about the time he spent there talking to Sheffield researchers, including yours truly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39028030
I should clarify that while of course robots will definitely take more human jobs, the 60% figure was merely an example of some of the claims others have made, and not my firm prediction. (I would never put a hard number of something like that; my job isn’t to put numbers on such things, but help prepare for whatever future we do face by engaging people in discussions and debates.)
Michael Szollosy 