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Sheffield Robotics
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Bringing together industry and academics from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University to make Sheffield a leading hub for robotics research

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrobotics
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📍University of Sheffield, The Diamond
📅 15-18 July
The conf. themes encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction,digestion,morphogenesis, and metamorphosis.
livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/
@livingmachinesconf.bsky.social
📍University of Sheffield, The Diamond
📅 15-18 July
The conf. themes encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction,digestion,morphogenesis, and metamorphosis.
livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/
February 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🚀 Living Machines 2025 – Call for Papers! 🤖💡

The 14th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (July 15-18, 2025)

📝 Submission Deadlines:
🔹 Full & Short Papers: March 30, 2025

📩 Learn more & submit: livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/call-fo...
February 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Exciting News!
Spinout company, BOW, has secured a massive £4 million investment from NorthGritstone to unleash the power Robotics!

BOW will bridge the gap between different robotic systems, allowing developers to focus on creativity instead of technical hurdles.

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University of Sheffield spinout company receives £4 million investment to unleash full potential of robotics
A University of Sheffield spinout company that is set to help developers overcome the cost and complexity of programming robots, has secured £4 million in funding.
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January 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
8th IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Conference 2025:

“Society-centric Robotics: Integrating Sustainability, Safety, and Adaptability”

📅 20th & 21st Feb 2025
📍Queen's University Belfast

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ras-2025-8...
RAS 2025 | 8th Annual IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference
Eventbrite - IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter presents RAS 2025 | 8th Annual IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference - Thursday, February 20, 2025 at Riddel Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Find event...
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January 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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📢 New Episode Alert!

This week, I chatted to Gianmarco Pisanelli from the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre about how to promote the safe and intuitive use of #robots in manufacturing. 🤖 🏭

Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/01/17/e... #Robotics #Manufacturing #AI
Episode 105 – Working with robots in industry - Robot Talk
Claire chatted to Gianmarco Pisanelli from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre about how to promote the use of robots in manufacturing.
www.robottalk.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Living Machines 2025
📅 15 - 18 July
📍The Diamond, Sheffield, UK

livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...
January 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Delighted to announce that Dr Kaushik Jayaram, from the University of Colorado, a leading light in the field of robot modelling of legged animals will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield in July. CfP now open. #lm2025 livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...
PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025
livingmachinesconference.eu
January 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Every year wildfires spread quickly and affect large geographic areas. A team at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been developing AI and Machine Learning solutions for real time fire detection and localisation with a swarm of UAVs.

www.aerosociety.com/media/24997/...
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January 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Research Associate in AI & Machine Learning Methods for Robots Inspecting Underground Sewer Systems, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Closing date: 12.01.2025

Further information 👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD408/r...
Research Associate in AI & Machine Learning Methods for Robots Inspecting Underground Sewer Systems at University of Sheffield
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in AI & Machine Learning Methods for Robots Inspecting Underground Sewer Systems on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
📅 23.01.2025
🕙 17.30
📍The Diamond, Sheffield
December 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM
PhD: Machine Learning Methods for Enhancing Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wildfire Detection and Localisation

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Closing date: 29th January 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Machine Learning Methods for Enhancing Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wildfire Detection and Localisation (C4-ELE-Mihaylova) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Machine Learning Methods for Enhancing Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wildfire Detection and Localisation (C4-ELE-Mihaylova) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Are social robots deceptive? In this new blog post, I argue that social robots are not deceptive when they are designed to respect some important principles based on a relational view of ethics tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/15/d...
#robotics #socialrobots #robotethics
Are Social Robots Deceptive? It’s Complicated…
There is increasing interest in social robots as assistive technologies to support a wide range of potential user groups.  Nevertheless, the widespread use of robots has been challenged in ter…
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December 15, 2024 at 12:08 PM
📢Winners of the Best Presentation; Best Innovation and Best Lesson Learned at the Sheffield Robotics Winter Showcase👏​
December 13, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Hello @bsky.app

We are the Centre for Machine Intelligence!

Backed by a multi-million pound investment from the University of Sheffield, we advance AI through cutting-edge research, innovation, and education - driving a smarter, better future.

Find out more here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ai
Centre for Machine Intelligence
Supported by a multi-million pound investment by the University of Sheffield, the Centre for Machine Intelligence is a strategic initiative dedicated to the transformation and acceleration of our rese...
www.sheffield.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
LIVING MACHINES 2025
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Delighted to announce that Prof Agniezska Wykowska, head of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... #lm2025
PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025
livingmachinesconference.eu
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 AM
The story of Pipebots: a 6 year grant programme grant funded by EPSRC.
The video chronices the execution of the program grant, collaborations with industry and interviews with researchers, PhD students and industry partners
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The story of Pipebots
YouTube video by Pipebots
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December 3, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Are Robots Just Objects?

Join us at Sheffield Hallam University for a Human-Robot Interaction Study to explore how people perceive and interact with a humanoid robot using tangible objects.

👉 Registration link: shorturl.at/6TdfU

@shefrobotics.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 12:23 PM
👏Congrats to Chaona Chen, who has been elected to the Executive Committee of the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Network. In her role as Executive Representative for Pillar 3: Enabling Early Career Researchers, she will lead efforts to advance interdisciplinary research
uk-ras.org.uk
Home - UK-RAS
This is a home page.
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November 29, 2024 at 11:37 AM
AI tech from University of Sheffield is enabling drones to detect and tackle UK wildfires faster with thermal imaging and self-coordinated fire response.

Find out more: electrooptics.com/article/swar...
Swarms of drones detect and extinguish fires in trial | Electro Optics
Using AI technology from the University of Sheffield – which incorporates thermal and optical imaging – the self-coordinated drones can automatically detect, investigate and supress fires
electrooptics.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
LIVING MACHINES 2025
Call for Papers 👇
We are hosting the 14th edition of the Living Machines International conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems in my home city of Sheffield, UK, in July 2025. Please think of submitting a paper. We'd love to see you there! livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/call-fo... @shefrobotics.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS – Living Machines 2025
livingmachinesconference.eu
November 26, 2024 at 2:33 PM
PhD Studentship: Trust in Distributed Surveillance Systems
(Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide))

Are you interested in Machine Learning and Signal Processing methods and their applications to autonomous systems and surveillance?

Closing date: 31.12.2024
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Trust in Distributed Surveillance Systems at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Trust in Distributed Surveillance Systems at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM
"What do robots sound like?”

Prof Roger Moore, Chair of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. Prof Moore interviewed by Game Audio Designer Ali Tocher, excellent series of podcasts!
shows.acast.com/what-do-robo...
Prof Roger Moore - Uncanny Valley, Interaction, Speech, History of Speech Synthesis | What Do Robots Sound Like?
Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield
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November 25, 2024 at 9:22 AM
November 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM