Responsible research and innovation requires engaging openly with the wider public about research plans and activities in TAS.

Watch the project’s kick-off presentation given by lead contact Professor Tony Prescott, below.

Engagement also has educational value, helping learners to understand jobs and research opportunities and the skills and knowledge they require.

This project will create infrastructure for access via web/VR interfaces and telepresence robots to UK laboratories researching TAS. Beginning with a seed group of universities, companies and NGOs, the project will run a pilot with 4 leading laboratories to create an engagement experience that is educational, scalable and meets social-distancing requirements due to Covid-19.

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Tony Prescott

Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Director of Sheffield Robotics, University of Sheffield

Lead contact

Dr Patricia Charlton

Knowledge engineer and a researcher on artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Internet of Things and technology-enhanced learning, Open University

Co-Investigator

Sanja Dogramadzi

Professor in Medical Robotics, University of Sheffield

Co-Investigator

Mauro Dragone

Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University

Co-Investigator

Praminda Caleb-Solly

Professor of Embodied Intelligence, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator

Richard Waterstone

Consultant, UK-RAS SERAS Task Group

Research Fellow

Virginia Ruiz Garate

Wallscourt Fellow in Intelligent Assistive Robotics, University of the West of England

Research Fellow

Dr Kate Devlin

Senior Lecturer, King’s College London

TAS Hub Co-Investigator

Carla Teale

Project Administration Manager, University of Sheffield

Project Administrator

Alessandro Di Nuovo

Professor of Machine Intelligence, Sheffield Hallam University

Co-Investigator
Partners

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