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Exploring Human–AI Creativity: Insights from Our Latest AI Lens Workshop
December 1, 2025
One of the core aims of the AI Lens project is to understand how people collectively make sense of the…
Embrace Angels at Cinekid Festival
November 5, 2025
Featuring: 2 artists 15 researchers from 3 institutions 2 robot arms 8 cameras 12 days and most importantly...190 embraces performed…
Somabotics Fellowship Supports Embrace Angels at Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam
October 29, 2025
Between 11th and 26th October, members of the Somabotics Fellowship travelled to Amsterdam to collaborate with renowned artists Lancel/Maat in…
Welcome Alastair!
October 21, 2025
Alastair Howcroft is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He recently joined…
Somabotics Research Fellow Feng Zhou visits China
October 6, 2025
Somabotics Research Fellow Feng Zhou is currently in China visiting Yinfeng He, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham…
Exploring Expressive Robotics Through Theatre-in-the-Loop
October 2, 2025
We’re delighted to share highlights from the recent International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2025), where our paper “Theatre-in-the-Loop: A…
Call for Papers: AAAI Workshop on Creative AI for Live Interactive performances
October 1, 2025
We will be holding a 1-day workshop at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Singapore next year…
Cat Royale dataset
August 26, 2025
To widen the impact of the Cat Royale project, members of the Somabotics Fellowship are using expert knowledge of Computer…
Welcome Rakesh!
May 19, 2025
Rakesh Patibanda joins us as a visiting Research Fellow from Monash University, Australia, arriving just before the early May Day…
Somabotics: how to document
May 16, 2025
By Gabriella Giannachi In my last blog I talked about the importance of documentation for artists, museums, archives, and computer…
From Tangible Interfaces to Creative AI
May 7, 2025
My Research Journey of AI, Wellbeing and Robotics, by Kieran Woodward I started my PhD in 2018 at Nottingham Trent…
Somabotics: why to document?
April 22, 2025
By Gabriella Giannachi I research the documentation of performance and new media art, often focussing on artworks which are event-based,…
Taking forward learnings
April 15, 2025
Through involvement in projects such as Horizon's 'Hybrid Relics' and the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 'Cat Royale' my developing approaches and…
LOERIC: When computers become performers
April 2, 2025
AI models that generate music are nothing new. But how can an AI agent perform music live with another human?…
Somabotics – at the Royal Society & Royal Academy of Engineering – Awards, AI, Robotics and the Humanities
March 21, 2025
Robots, Awards and AI The last couple of weeks has been an exciting time for the members of the…
TCT Asia 2025
March 20, 2025
Feng Zhou, Research Fellow in HCI & Additive Manufacturing recently attended TCT Asia 2025, Taking place at the National Exhibition…
Enhancing Robotic Telepresence Through Soma-Bits: a recent workshop and reflections
March 20, 2025
Researchers from the Mixed Reality Lab are pursuing an exploration into Mobile Robotic Telepresence leveraging embodied design principles and the…
UK AI Conference
December 7, 2024
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Embrace Angels
December 7, 2024
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New Paper: Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities
December 7, 2024
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Three world-leading Turing AI Fellowships announced
December 3, 2024
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