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Different Bodies: Staging Bodies Dancing with Robots

The Garden Co Design Workshop

Somabotics AAAI Creative Live Interactive Performance 2026 Workshop

Dafydd Sills Jones, Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology visited the Virtual Immersive Production (VIP) Studio towards the end of 2025. During his visit he met Richard Ramchurn, lead on the Somabotics AI Lens project and joined an AI workshop held at the VIP studio.......

Somabotics Welcomes Visiting Researchers

Air Giants visit to Nottingham

Exploring Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances at AAAI 2026

Touch Well HRI 2026 Workshop

Exploring Human–AI Creativity: Insights from Our Latest AI Lens Workshop

What Does Meaningful Interaction Look Like?

Embrace Angels at Cinekid Festival

The Loeric Sessions: Reimagining Contemporary Folk with Rosie, Jamie and an AI performer

Somabotics Fellowship Supports Embrace Angels at Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam

Welcome Alastair!

The Entangled Thread: Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction through Textiles

Presenting Cat Royale

Welcome to Eray

Eray A. Baran joins us as a Visiting Professor from Istanbul Bilgi University

A visit from Missy Cummings

Somabotics Research Fellow Feng Zhou visits China

Exploring Expressive Robotics Through Theatre-in-the-Loop

Call for Papers: AAAI Workshop on Creative AI for Live Interactive performances

Cat Royale dataset

Soma Skins Toolkit

Somabotics attends UKAI

Congratulations Rakesh!

Welcome Rakesh!

Somabotics: how to document

From Tangible Interfaces to Creative AI

Cat Royale: ‘Breakthroughs in Storytelling’

Somabotics: why to document?

Taking forward learnings

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast” – Benjamin Franklin

LOERIC: When computers become performers

How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics

Somabotics – at the Royal Society & Royal Academy of Engineering – Awards, AI, Robotics and the Humanities

TCT Asia 2025

Enhancing Robotic Telepresence Through Soma-Bits: a recent workshop and reflections

Welcome to Kieran!

We are delighted to welcome Kieran Woodward to our Somabotics team.  Kieran told us ......

LIMA (Living Media Art) annual international symposium on digital art preservation 20 & 21 March 2025

New paper – Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction

The cat is out of the bag!

PhD studentship in Soft Robotics and Wearables

PhD studentship in AI for Feelings

New Paper: Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities

In this paper 'Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities' we explore why people relic guitars...

Embrace Angels

Last month Steve Benford attended a workshop in Stuttgart to kick off the Embrace Angels project which will investigate...

UK AI Conference

Steve Benford and members of the Somabotics Fellowship project attended the second UK AI conference at the University of Birmingham to...

Three world-leading Turing AI Fellowships announced

We are delighted to announce that Steve Benford at the University of Nottingham has been named...