I study human-robot interaction. Specifically I’m interested in how we can get robots to better learn from humans in the way ...

RoboCup2025 is currently taking place in Salvador, Brazil. With day one of the main competition complete, things are hotting up across the many different leagues. From soccer to rescue, from ...

RoboCup2025 took place in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. Find out what the teams got up to during the first couple of days ...

A screenshot from the new simulator that will be trialled for a special challenge at RoboCup2025.

Claire chatted to Amy LaViers from the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab about the creative relationship between humans and machines. Amy LaViers works at the intersection of robotics and dance. Her ...

Behavior trees execute in discrete update steps known as ticks. When a BT is ticked, usually at some specified rate, its child nodes recursively tick based on how the tree is constructed. After a node ...

Claire chatted to Vali Lalioti from the University of the Arts London about how art, culture and robotics interact. Vali Lalioti is a pioneering designer, computer scientist and innovator. She has a ...

Lerrel Pinto is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University (NYU). His research is aimed at getting robots to generalize and adapt in the messy world we live in. His lab focuses ...

Just outside the historic German town of Goslar, a sprawling industrial complex receives an endless stream of discarded electronics. On arrival, this electronic waste is laboriously prepared for ...

Claire chatted to Will Kinghorn from Made Smarter about how to increase adoption of new tech by small manufacturers. Will Kinghorn is an automation and robotics specialist for the Made Smarter ...

Claire chatted to Catherine Menon from the University of Hertfordshire about designing home assistance robots with ethics in mind. Catherine Menon is a principal lecturer at the University of ...