Last month members of the Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI team attended the third UKAI – an event that connects the AI research community from across the country.

Feng Zhou presented a poster describing a wearable toolkit designed to enhance shared perception between humans and robots, facilitating real-time data collection to support embedded AI based applications : AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction.

Kieran Woodward delivered a novel approach to generating engaging physical interactions between human and robots through a time-series transformer architecture in his presentation: Beyond Functional Robots: Time-Series Transformers for Generating Robot Embraces.

Richard Ramchurn presented a paper introducing AI Lens, a novel AI-powered camera system that applies live generative transformations to video in real time: AI Lens – A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Tranformation.

Also in attendance, Steve Benford , who delivered an AI music performance at the events Drinks Reception.

Other members of the Somabotics Team, Partners and Associates who contributed towards these presentations include Alan Chamberlain, Rachael Garrett, Angela Higgins, Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Dominic Price, Gabriella Giannachi, Christos Kitsidis, and Paul Tennent.