October 21, 2025Alastair Howcroft is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He recently joined…- October 15, 2025Written by Helen Payne Beginning My PhD Journey in Somabotics I am thrilled to have joined the Somabotics team as…
October 13, 2025Written by Pepi Barnard I presented a talk ‘Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale: Or what it…- October 13, 2025Eray A. Baran joins us as a visiting Professor from Istanbul Bilgi University, where he serves as Assistant Professor…
October 8, 2025Dr Missy Cummings is visiting the University of Nottingham tomorrow and has a busy schedule ahead. Missy is a Professor…
October 6, 2025Somabotics Research Fellow Feng Zhou is currently in China visiting Yinfeng He, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham…
October 2, 2025We’re delighted to share highlights from the recent International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2025), where our paper “Theatre-in-the-Loop: A…- October 1, 2025We will be holding a 1-day workshop at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Singapore next year…
August 26, 2025To widen the impact of the Cat Royale project, members of the Somabotics Fellowship are using expert knowledge of Computer…
August 15, 2025University of Nottingham Research Fellow Feng Zhou leads the Somabotics Soma Skins project. He recently ran a 3-day workshop at…- July 4, 2025Last month members of the Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI team attended the third UKAI - an event that connects the…
June 23, 2025Our visiting researcher, Rakesh Patibanda recently graduated, obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science at the Monash University…
May 19, 2025Rakesh Patibanda joins us as a visiting Research Fellow from Monash University, Australia, arriving just before the early May Day…- May 16, 2025By Gabriella Giannachi In my last blog I talked about the importance of documentation for artists, museums, archives, and computer…
May 7, 2025My Research Journey of AI, Wellbeing and Robotics, by Kieran Woodward I started my PhD in 2018 at Nottingham Trent…- April 23, 2025The Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) has selected Cat Royale as one of the recipients of…
April 22, 2025By Gabriella Giannachi I research the documentation of performance and new media art, often focussing on artworks which are event-based,…
April 15, 2025Through involvement in projects such as Horizon's 'Hybrid Relics' and the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 'Cat Royale' my developing approaches and…
April 11, 2025But what kind of roast would be appropriate if the host is entirely robotic? On Wednesday 12th March, Steve Benford…- April 2, 2025AI models that generate music are nothing new. But how can an AI agent perform music live with another human?…
- March 25, 2025Now available Open Access Authors: Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Pat Brundell…
- March 21, 2025Robots, Awards and AI The last couple of weeks has been an exciting time for the members of the…
- March 20, 2025Feng Zhou, Research Fellow in HCI & Additive Manufacturing recently attended TCT Asia 2025, Taking place at the National Exhibition…
- March 20, 2025Researchers from the Mixed Reality Lab are pursuing an exploration into Mobile Robotic Telepresence leveraging embodied design principles and the…
- March 17, 2025We are delighted to welcome Kieran Woodward to our Somabotics team. Kieran told us: "My research has always explored the…
March 11, 2025Transformation Digital Art is LI-MA's annual international symposium on the preservation of digital art. This year it will take place…
March 10, 2025"As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical…- March 10, 2025Huge congratulations to our partners Blast Theory who were nominated and now feature in the Digital Culture Network Award Longlist…
- February 12, 2025At the Mixed Reality Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Closing date: 28th March 2025, interviews will take…
- February 12, 2025At the Mixed Reality Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Closing date: 28th March 2025, interviews will take…
