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Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine, featuring Dr Dana Damian, Associate Professor, Biomedical Robotics Lab

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Hey MiRo demo at Festival of the Mind

Would people like a talking robot pet?

MiRo-e robot at Festival of Mind

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Theme Lead in Robotics/Autonomous Systems

The Centre for Machine Intelligence at The University of Sheffield wishes to recruit a Professor /Senior Lecturer and Theme Lead in Robotics & Autonomous Systems.
The post is affiliated with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineeering
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Understanding the Sense of Self Through Robotics

Exploring how theories of self can be tested using robots as physical models or lab tools.

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Artificial intelligence won’t likely reach human-like levels without this one key component

Research by Prof Tony Prescott and Dr Stuart Wilson, Dept of Computer Science and Sheffield Robotics. The research suggests that despite AI having the ability to emulate how humans learn the programs are unlikely to fully think like humans.

| Techno Verse Pro
Universal Robots UR5 robot equipped with a Robotiq 2-finger gripper, wrist camera, force torque sensor, and Alumotion YOUring
A Universal Robots UR5 robot equipped with a Robotiq 2-finger gripper, wrist camera, force torque sensor, and Alumotion YOUring, in the ESIM facility

Universal Robots opens first UK cobotics centre in Sheffield

Universal Robotics has opened its first UK office in Sheffield.

Dr James Law, Sheffield Robotics and Dept. of Computer Science talks about how encouraging the move of a global robotics company to Sheffield is.

| Robotics & Innovation
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AI could threaten some jobs, but it is more likely to become our personal assistant

Dr Jonathan Aitken from the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering discusses what jobs are likely to be most affected by AI, and why jobs being replaced by AI is unlikely to be as big an issue as people fear.

| The Conversation
We will be at Booth H12

Sheffield Robotics will be attending ICRA 2023!

Sheffield: a leading hub of robotics research

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Research Assistant/Assoicate Opportunity in Resilient and Intelligent Robotics for Autonomy

We are seeking an enthusiastic researcher to join our research team to work on the cross-disciplinary REASON (REsilient Autonomous SOcio-cyber-physical AgeNts) project.

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