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Alan FT Winfield
Hewlett-Packard Professor of Electronic
Engineering Director of the UWE Science Communication Unit EPSRC Senior Media Fellow Associate Dean Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England, Bristol Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY UK Phone: +44 117 328 2211 Fax: +44 117 328 2734 Email: Alan.Winfield@uwe.ac.uk Welcome to my home page. I'm an engineer and academic at UWE Bristol, and I conduct research in mobile robotics within the Bristol Robotics Lab. I am deeply interested in mobile robots for two reasons: (1), they are complex and potentially useful machines that embody just about every design challenge and discipline there is and (2), robots allow us to address some deep questions about life, emergence, culture and intelligence in a radically new way, that is by building models. Thus, robotics is for me both engineering and experimental philosophy. I'm committed to the widest possible dissemination of research and ideas in science, engineering and technology and I believe that robots provide us with a wonderful vehicle for public engagement. Actually I would go a stage further and argue that intelligent robots will become ubiquitous in the near future and we therefore need to start a dialogue now about the ethical and moral questions that will arise. |
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Artificial Culture blog posts Biological Metaphors and Crisis CoSMoS Swarm Foraging Symbrion Public Engagement Robotic Visions Walking with Robots PE training Walking with Robots blog posts Publications (html/pdf) Research students |
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New stuff:
9 July, talk at Broadlands School,
Bristol Recent publications Winfield AFT, Liu W and Bjerknes JD, 'Functional and Reliability Modelling of Swarm Robotic Systems', pp 56-79 in Symbiotic Multi-robot Organisms, Eds. P Levi and S Kernbach, Springer-Verlag, 2010. |
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