Maya Caspari 
Lizzie Wright spoke to Professor Teresa Heffernan about the relationship between robot fictions and real-life robots, the films Wall-E and Ex Machina, and the importance of remembering the materiality — and material cost — of technology. This is an edited extract of their conversation. Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint … Read more
Our exhibition Can Robots Care? launched on 4th November at the Thackray Museum of Medicine. The evening included a chance to get a first look at the exhibition and to meet the robots Paro, MiRO, Nao and Pepper. The CEO of the Thackray Museum Nat Edwards and our PI Dr Amelia DeFalco introduced the project … Read more
In this new blog post for the Thackray Museum of Medicine, our Project PI Amelia DeFalco discusses the slippery meaning of care and the future of care robots.
Lizzie Wright speaks to designer, inventor and roboticist Dr Conor McGinn, CEO at Akara Robotics. Conor previously worked at NASA and the Robotics and Innovation Lab at Trinity College Dublin. His designs include the award-winning robot Stevie, Ireland’s first socially assistive AI robot.
Our PI Dr Amelia DeFalco appeared on Gayle Lofthouse’s show on 1 November 2021 to discuss our exhibition, ‘Can Robots Care?‘. As Amelia commented, “the history of robots is entangled with fiction and imagination as much as it is with science and engineering”.