Press and Media

Radio interview for CityTalkFM, Roy Basnett (live), 18 August 2009.

Interviewed and quoted for article Scientists Fear a Revolt by Killer Robots, John Arlidge, Sunday Times, 2 August 2009.

On the same story:
 
  BBC Radio Wales interview (recorded), 3 August 2009.

  BBC Radio 4 Today programme (live) interview, with Prof Bart Selman (Cornell), 3 August 2009.

  Spin 1038 Radio Dublin (live) interview, 4 August 2009.

Interviewed by Nina Teggarty for More 4 News story on firefighting robots, 27 July 2009.

Interview on BBC Radio Wiltshire (live) to comment on monkey mind-control of robot arm, 13 July 2009.

Following Robotic Visions press release:

   Students Express Views about Robots (Visions Conference), Bristol Evening Post, 10 July 2009.

   Interview for Original Radio (recorded) to comment on Visions Conference, 7 July 2009.

Filmed for Spanish science TV programme Redes, interviewer Prof Eduard Punset, 1 July 2009.

Filmed for National Geographic channel documentary, 3 March 2009.

Interviewed for Noel Sharkey's Sheffield Live radio programme The Sound of Science, 6 Feb 2009.

Interviewed on 95bFM New Zealand, Sunday breakfast show (live), 1 Feb 2009.

Interviewed for Noel Sharkey's Sheffield Live radio programme The Sound of Science, 3 Oct 2008.

Interview for Hives Hopes, Cover Article in The Engineer, 16 June 2008.

Quoted in Robot nannies threat to childcare, Roger Highfield in Telegraph Science online, 5 June 2008

Interview on XFM radio breakfast show (live), 29 May 2008

BBC R4 Material World, interview about Swarm Intelligence with Nigel Franks, 8 May 2008. Podcast here.

Parliamentary seminar "Intelligent Robots in Science and Society", interview for podcast, 22 April 2008.

Following Symbrion Press Release:

  Print and online media:

Real Transformers may soon be at our service, David Derbyshire in the Daily Mail, 13 March 2008. Online version here.

Sugar-cube robots could team up and change shape, Ian Sample in the Guardian, 13 March 2008.

Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be built, Nic Fleming in the Telegraph, 13 March 2008.

Swarms of mini-robots to go where humans fear to tread, Lewis Smith in the Times, 13 March 2008.

The trouble with Swarm Intelligence, New Scientist technology blog, 13 March 2008.

  TV:

Could we be swarmed by robots?, ITN lunchtime news, 13 March 2008 (recorded).

ITN interview on YouTube: Robots with a Mind of their own.

  Radio:

Live interviews (13 March 2008) for BBC Radio Bristol; BBC Radio 5 live; BBC Radio 2: Chris Evans' Drive Time.

Recorded interviews for GWR; Independent Radio News; BBC World Service: 'The World Today'; Talk News Canada; BBC Radio Wales.

National Science Week: Alien life begins at home, Roger Highfield in the Telegraph, 11 March 2008

Science, Big Questions, small answers The Times colour supplement, 8 March 2008

National Science and Engineering Week The Big Questions, 7-16 March 2008

Scientists Learn to Speak to the Public, Bristol Evening Post, 21 February 2008

Robots to Develop their Own Culture (in German) Welt Online, February 2008

Quoted in Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm New Scientist Technology, 29 January 2008

Interview on BBC 3 Counties Radio (live), 8 January 2008

Robots in Disguise - HERO, July 2007

Warning! Robots Ahead CBC news, 16 July 2007

If Only I Had a Brain The Age, 22 May 2007

Let's Dance Education Guardian, 1 May 2007

Guardian Science Weekly Podcast, 30 April 2007, with Noel Sharkey

Will Big Brother be Cultural Watershed for Robots?, Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 April 2007

Human Rights for Robots? Times Online, 24 April 2007

Robot Future Poses Hard Questions news.bbc.co.uk, 24 April 2007

Robot Rights New Scientist Technology Blog, 24 April 2007

Interviewed on BBC TV One o'clock News (live), 24 April 2007

Interview, with Noel Sharkey, on BBC News 24, 24 April 2007

08.53 Interview with Noel Sharkey on BBC R4 Today Programme, 24 April 2007

Interviewed with Noel Sharkey on Radio 5 Live (Nicky Campbell show), 24 April 2007

Masters of their Fate, cover article in IET Engineering & Technology, April 2007

Learning to Walk with Robots, Bristol Magazine, March 2007

Editorial article in Electronics Weekly, Nick Flaherty, 31 January 2007

People, Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 October 2006

Physics Group Challenge Einstein and Newton, Bristol Evening Post, 5 May 2006

Robots Duo are Brunel for New Age, 21 April 2006

Interviewed by BBC Radio Northern Ireland (live), 21 February 2005.

Member of BBC Radio 5 Live panel debate on weaponised robots (Julian Worricker show), 20 February 2005

Day of the Robots Draws Nearer, Bristol Observer, 22 October 2004

Interview for documentary Sentient Machines, Robotic behavior for extended DVD edition of Hollywood movie i,Robot, 2004.

Interview about Grey Walter robot tortoises on BBC TV Points West (recorded), December 1999

Interview about Grey Walter robot tortoises on BBC Radio Bristol (live), December 1999