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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”

Latest News

  • How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics

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  • Somabotics – at the Royal Society & Royal Academy of Engineering – Awards, AI, Robotics and the Humanities

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  • TCT Asia 2025

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  • Enhancing Robotic Telepresence Through Soma-Bits: a recent workshop and reflections

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  • Latest Events

  • Workshop with Blast Theory

    4-5/12/2024

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  • Dance and Design Workshop

    18-20/11/2024

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  • HuggieBot Workshop, Stuggart

    6-9/11/2024

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    3 people and a robot crossing a road in the style of The Beatles Abby Road record cover
  • Embrace Angels Kick Off Workshop

    14/10/2024

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