The February half-term week proved to be a wonderful opportunity to engage a wide-ranging audience, including young children, with questions about robotic care. The ‘Can Robots Care?’ exhibition was central to the Thackray Museum of Medicine’s fun-filled week called ‘Bot Bonanza’.
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.
Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7KJbCo7rps 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”.