Claire chatted to Elmira Yadollahi from Lancaster University about how children interact with and relate to robots. Elmira Yadollahi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Lancaster University. She has a joint PhD in robotics and computer science from EPFL in Switzerland and Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. Her research tackles explainability in robotics, as well as multimodal perception and explanation methods. Her core expertise is in child-robot interaction, with a focus on expectation management, trust, and AI literacy.

Mark Gray has worked in automation for the last 30 years, first involved in machine vision and robotics and finally collaborative robots or cobots. As country manager, Mark was the first person to work for Universal Robots in the UK and has carried out projects with many research institutes such as the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), the National Robotarium, and Bristol Robotics Lab. Robot Talk is a weekly podcast that explores the exciting world of robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines. Robot Talk is a weekly podcast that explores the exciting world of robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines. In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Razanne Abu-Aisheh from the University of Bristol about how people feel about interacting with robot swarms.

Claire chatted to Christine Evers from University of Southampton about helping robots understand the world around them through sound. Christine Evers is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Robotics at the University of Southampton. Her research pushes the boundaries of machine listening, enabling robots to make sense of life in sound. Her current focus is embedding our understanding of the human auditory process into deep-learning audio architectures. This bio-inspired approach moves away from massive, internet-scale models toward compute-efficient and inherently interpretable systems - opening the door to a new generation of embodied auditory intelligence.

Meghan Daley is a NASA project manager who leads teams to develop and integrate simulations for robotic operations to prepare astronauts on the ISS and beyond. We'll be spotlighting five honorees each week throughout October

Drones and Droids is a co-operative strategy game developed here at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) . In it, you and four other sentient beings set out on the deck of the research vessel Seol Mara with six of our best robots to investigate an algal bloom near Lismore. Your mission is to find the source of the bloom and determine if it is dangerous before it reaches the seafarms in Ardmucknish bay. The mechanics of the game are designed to reflect the behaviour of our robots, and the narrative of your mission is told as you explore the map and deal with various calamities drawn from the real-life experiences of the roboteers, phycologists and other scientists at SAMS. We originally designed it as a teaching tool, but after good reviews from our local pro-gamers we're currently running a crowdfunding campaign to allow us to do a full production run.

If you visited Robohub this week, you may have spotted a big change: how this blog looks now! On Tuesday (coinciding with Ada Lovelace Day and our '50 women in robotics that you need to know about' by chance), Robohub got a massive modernisation on its look by our Technical Editor Ioannis K. Erripis and his team. There are many improvements and new features but the biggest update apart from the code is the design which is more clean and simple looking (especially on the single post view). This fresher look has recently been tested on our sister project, AIhub.org. As Ioannis says, it offers a cleaner, simpler and more readable way to access the content from the robotics community that we post in this blog.

Robots could have a role to play in COVID-19, whether it's automating laboratory research, helping with logistics, disinfecting hospitals, education, or allowing carers, colleagues or loved ones to connect using telepresence. Yet many of these solutions are still in development or early deployment. The hope is that accelerating these translations could make a difference. This page aims to compile some resources for roboticists who are able to help, users who need robots for COVID-19 applications, and people who want to learn about robotics while on lockdown. This is not an exhaustive resource page, and we will regularly be updating the content.

Welcome to the 300th episode of the Robohub podcast! You might not know that the podcast has been going in one form or another for 14 years. Originally called "Talking Robots," the podcast was started in 2006 by Dario Floreano, now Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL in Switzerland, who started out interviewing his robotics Ph.D. students. Some of those students, alongside others, eventually took over the running of the podcast, then called "Robots Podcast", interviewing a number of researchers, entrepreneurs, and engineers involved in robotics. The official first episode of the Robots Podcast was published back in 2008 and is still available to listen to at robohub.org/podcast.

As a member of the Royal Society's Working Group on Machine Learning, Dr. Hauert is an expert in science communication. As a frequent speaker on the future of robotics, Hauert explains how robots are game-changers, but not in the way we think. Robots aren't going to replace humans; they're going to make our jobs much more humane. Difficult, demeaning, demanding, dangerous, dull--these are the jobs that robots will be taking. Productivity is one of the primary benefits of robotics in the workplace. In Europe, the goal is to attain a 20 percent increase in productivity by 2020. Central to achieving this is the exploration and use of robotics in the workplace.

Dr. Sabine Hauert, President and Co-Founder of Robohub.org and Assistant Professor in Robotics at the University of Bristol, provided the InterConnect 2017 audience with an insightful (and interactive) discussion about robotics – highlighting the need for balanced media and communications around robotics and artificial intelligence. As a member of the Royal Society's Working Group on Machine Learning, Dr. Hauert is an expert in science communication and a frequent speaker on the future of robotics. In her talk, Hauert explains how robots can be game changers, but not in the way we think. Robots are not going to replace humans, they are going to make their jobs much more humane. Difficult, demeaning, demanding, dangerous, dull – these are the jobs robots will be taking. Productivity is one of the primary benefits of robotics in the workplace.