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Aug 2025
Elon Musks Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many - Steve Benford, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Mar 2025
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction - Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Patrick Robert Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Feng Zhou, Rachael Garrett, Kristina Höök, Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh, Paul Tennent
Mar 2025
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Christine Li, Paul Tennent, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Kristina Höök, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Joe Marshall, Eike Schneiders, Kristina Popova, Jude Afana
Jan 2025
Beyond Video-Conferencing: Telepresence Technologies for Extending Expertise Reach and Specialised Skill Sharing - Andriana Boudouraki, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Niki Chouliara, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Houda Elmimouni, Laura Fiorini, Pratyusha Ghosh, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Jan 2025
Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations - Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Angela Higgins
Nov 2024
Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities - Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca Gibson & Juan Pablo Martinez Avila
Oct 2024
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Pat Brundell, Simon Castle-Green. How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. arXiv:2410.22462
Sep 2024
Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician - Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila. Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician. TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Article No.6, Pages 1 – 10
Aug 2024
Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorization - Guido Salimbeni, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, Sara Martindale