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Funded by UKRI, we are a five year multi-institution research programme led by the University of Nottingham focusing on the development of somabotics research.

Led by Professor Steve Benford at the University of Nottingham, Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI UKRI Turing AI Fellowship aims to enhance artificial intelligence to enable humans to ‘make meaning’. We will explore how people make meaning through art and embodied experience, partnering with award-winning artists to create a series of robotic artworks, from robots that embrace and groom humans, to ones that dance and play music with them.

By investigating these systems using an artistic lens we aim to create AI artworks that embrace ambiguity, evoke interpretation, and champion improvisation. Touring artworks supported through the Fellowship will inspire the creative industries with new forms of cultural experience, while engaging the public to reflect on the future role of AI in society, especially on how it might become more inclusive.

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“Creating meaningful experiences of artificial intelligence with artists and robots”