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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 www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldroboti…

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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@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/
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Living Machines 2025 @livingmachinesconf.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚀 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...
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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. 👇 bit.ly/3PTcwRh
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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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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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...
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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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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📢 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
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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.
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Living Machines 2025 📅 15 - 18 July 📍The Diamond, Sheffield, UK livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...
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PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025
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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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...
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PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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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!
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📅 23.01.2025 🕙 17.30 📍The Diamond, Sheffield
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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...
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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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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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
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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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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📢Winners of the Best Presentation; Best Innovation and Best Lesson Learned at the Sheffield Robotics Winter Showcase👏​
Best Innovation: Kavyan Zoughalian, Sheffield Hallam University
Title: Revolutionizing Healthcare with SAR: Secure, Private, and Transparent Robotic Solutions

Best Lesson Learned: David Wilkinson, Robotics and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems Lab, University of Sheffield
Title: Time-optimal trajectory generation for precision motion control​Best Presentation: Muhammad Aitsam, Sheffield Hallam University 
Title: Can Neuromorphic Computing Redefine the Future of Robotics and Vision Systems?
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Centre for Machine Intelligence @shefcmi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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
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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...
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
LIVING MACHINES 2025 👇
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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 youtu.be/Q2loVe5_NcE?...
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The story of Pipebots
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Samuele Vinanzi @samvinanzi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
👏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
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Home - UK-RAS
This is a home page.
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
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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
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
LIVING MACHINES 2025 Call for Papers 👇
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Dr Rob Ward @drrobward.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
@shefrobotics.bsky.social #robotics #machining #fusion #sheffield
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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...
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PhD Project - Trust in Distributed Surveillance Systems at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"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...
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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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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
pipebots.ac.uk 👇
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Pipebots
Pipebots aims to revolutionise buried pipe infrastructure management with the development of micro-robots designed to work in underground pipe networks
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"Understanding the Sense of Self Through Robotics" Authors: Prof T Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Sheffield Robotics/School of Computer Science Prof K Vogeley, University Hospital Cologne Prof A Wykowska, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Understanding the sense of self through robotics
Robots can be used to study and understand the sense of self as a fundamental phenomenon of human nature.
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
PhD Scholarship: Developing Human-Centric AI for Social Robots (Funded PhD Project-Students Worldwide) You'll investigate how humans communicate using social signals like facial expressions, gaze and body movements. Closing date: 8.12.24 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #socialrobotics
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Developing Human-Centric AI for Social Robots at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Developing Human-Centric AI for Social Robots at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
BBC Sounds: Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Featuring Dr Dana Damian, Associate Professor, Biomedical Robotics Lab, University of Sheffield www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #robotics #medicine #origamirobots #surgical #surgicalrobots
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Best Medicine - Series 2 - 1. MV140, Origami Surgical Capsules, Denial, Defibrillators - BBC Sounds
Ingestible origami robots battle against a revolutionary pineapple-flavoured UTI vaccine.
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Meet MiRo! Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society. This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 Do you like the idea of a robot companion? youtu.be/quVza0CED5o?...
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Hey MiRo demo at Festival of the Mind
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Job post: Professor/Senior Lecturer and Theme Lead in Robotics & Autonomous Systems Are you ready to lead in the field of Robotics and Autonomous Systems? Be part of a team shaping the future of AI! Closing date: 6th December 2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN921/p...
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Professor/Senior Lecturer and Theme Lead in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at University of Sheffield
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Professor/Senior Lecturer and Theme Lead in Robotics and Autonomous Systems opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs...
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Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello @bsky.app We are Sheffield Robotics! Sheffield Robotics brings researchers from across disciplinary boundaries to drive forward the understanding, development, and integration of robots and automation. More info : www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrob...
Kilobots are small, low-cost robots that can work together in groups to perform complex tasksFurhat robot. Furhat is a humanoid conversational robot with life-like expressions powered by the latest advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence.UR10 versatile cobotMiro-E Friendly, flexible and intelligent Miro-E is a highly specified, low-cost, sophisticated robotic platform designed and developed for schools and universities
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