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New Article published in Nature Machine Intelligence
My latest research on NUMBERS project has just been published with NatureResearch Publishing in NATURE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, title Developing the knowledge of number digits in a child-like robot: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-019-0123-3
Free access link: https://rdcu.be/bYKKP
Citation:
Di Nuovo, A., McClelland, J.L. Developing the knowledge of number digits in a child-like robot. Nat Mach Intell 1, 594–605 (2019) doi:10.1038/s42256-019-0123-3
The source code for the models presented in this article can be found in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/EPSRC-NUMBERS/EmbodiedCNN-Speech.
A view to the Future: Robotic Carers for Lonely Senior
Robotics and AI for health and social care
Introduction
The UK government and parliament (2018 UK Parliament’s POST report on Robotics in Social Care) have identified the need to support research and innovation in the field of robotics and AI for health and social care. This is in response to the expected growth in needs for the ageing population, and the contribution AI and robotics technologies can offer.
This collaborative workshop will take place at the Alan Turing building at University of Manchester.
About the event
This workshop aims to achieve a shared awareness of the strengths and complementarity of UK and International projects and activities in this field, to identify the main research challenges, and foster interaction and collaboration. International experts will also be invited to share good practice and further support international collaboration.
Academic speakers include experts already involved in assistive robotics and AI projects, from the UK, EU and Japan. It will also have talks from experts in ethics and law for healthcare technologies and for responsible research and innovation. Participants will comprise stakeholders from charities, industry, and policy makers.
Invited speakers include:
- Yoshio Matsumoto
- Alessandro Di Nuovo
- Katrin Solveig Lohan
- Amelia DeFalco
- Farshid Amirabdollahian
- Samia Nefti-Meziani
- Sanja Dogramadzi
- Ray Jones
- Praminda Caleb-Solly
- Erica Palmerini
- Frances Griffiths
- Luc de Witte
- Alberto Borghese
https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/robotics-and-ai-health-and-social-care
Workshop on Robotics for Healthy Living and Active Ageing @ IEEE ROMAN 2019
Workshop on INTERNET OF INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC THINGS FOR HEALTHY LIVING AND ACTIVE AGEING: WHERE WE ARE AND FUTURE TRENDS @ The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
14 Oct, 2019
Le Meridien, Windsor Place, New Delhi, India
It was a great half day workshop at IEEE ROMAN 2019. I should thank my co-organisers – Dr. Laura Fiorini, Dr. Filippo Cavallo (SSSA), Prof. Yasuo Okabe (Osaka), Prof. Alberto Nunzio Borgese (Milan), the invited speakers Dr Silvia Rossi (Naples) and Prof. Jorge Dias, (Khalifa), and all the other participants for the many interesting presentations and discussions.
The Proceedings Book can be downloaded by clicking on this link.
I had also the opportunity to present and discuss with the audience the results of the CATHI project:
The workshop is linked to a Special Issue in MDPI robotics, which is open to submission also for other authors: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/biorobot
Sheffield Robotics Open Lab
Description
As part of UK Robotics Week, Sheffield Robotics will be hosting open labs on Tuesday 25th June 2019 (2pm – 4pm)
The Sheffield Robotics Lab will be open to staff, students and members of the public. Sheffield Robotics: Robot Foundry (Floor B, Pam Liversidge Building, Newcastle Street).
At the Robot Foundry, Sheffield Robotics researchers will be on hand to discuss the latest robotics research and give demonstrations from our wide range of projects. This includes my projects: NUMBERS, CATHI, CARER-AID.
Speaking at WestminsterInsight UK’s Older People’s Wellbeing Conference
Shonan meeting on “Learning to communicate: Challenges in language learning by AI, robots and humans”
This week I will participate my first Shonan meeting with many wonderful colleagues from all around the world. Hope to learn a lot! 🙂
Robotics in Paediatrics and Child Health Showcase
Robotics in Social Care –
POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) has published an interesting note that reviews evidence on the impact of robotics on the costs and quality of social care and its workforce, and explores the main ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use in social care. Full text here.
“According to the National Audit Office, between 2012 and 2020, the UK Government has, or plans to, invest over £300 million in RAS research. The European Commission is also investing €700 million between 2014-2020 in partnership with the robotics industry and academia, which is expected to yield a total investment of €2.8 billion.
It has been suggested that robotics can provide social and cognitive assistance to care receivers, as well as physical assistance to both caregivers and care receivers. Evidence on the effectiveness of this technology shows some positive findings, although the newness of the technology means that current research is limited. Questions have also been raised over the ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use.”