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Presenting Late Breaking Report at HRI 2026

Presenting at the HRI Conference! Late breaking report on disambiguating anthropomorphism and anthropomimesis with Dr Henry Shevlin.

  • Research
  • Conference
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Postdoc
  • HRI
  • Anthropomorphism
  • Anthropomimesis
  • Philosophy
  • Theory
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Attending BritCHI with two Futures Publications

Presenting at the BritCHI Conference! Two publications on speculative futures of robots in public and equitable robotics.

  • Research
  • Conference
  • Ethics
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Postdoc
  • BritCHI
  • Arts
  • Speculative
  • Art
  • Design
  • Futures
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AI Ethics and Society conference publication

Presenting at the AI Ethics and Society conference! Check out our publication on robot ethics.

  • Research
  • Conference
  • Ethics
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Postdoc
  • AIES
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PhDone!? The Dr. is In

I’m officially a Doctor of Philosophy! After 5 years and loads of hard work, here we are! Can hardly believe it. My thesis is available here.

  • Research
  • Big News
  • PhD
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Podcast Interview on Robot Design with Mateus Bolson Ruzzarin

Happy to have appeared on Mateus Bolson Ruzzarin’s podcast interviewing researchers! Check it out for talk about robot design, robots for wellbeing, and Dungeons and Dragons (yes, really).

  • Press
  • Research
  • Science Communication
  • PhD
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Dungeons and Dragons
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United Nations AI for Good conference

Visiting the United Nations’ AI for Good summit with AFAR Lab! I was featured on Radio Télévision Suisse, talking about robots for wellbeing.

  • Press
  • Research
  • Science Communication
  • PhD
  • United Nations
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Robots and me on the Beeb!

What an amazing honour… BBC Click’s episode featuring my PhD research is out. With other cool work from the Computer Lab!

  • Press
  • BBC
  • Science Communication
  • PhD
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Award for best 3-minute thesis research pitch at CHIA early career conference

Lovely to be recognised with the award for the best pitch by the Centre of Human-Inspired AI!

  • Award
  • Speaking
  • PhD
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Shooting robots with BBC Click at the Computer Lab

Our robots to be featured on Spencer Kelly’s 1000th and final episode of BBC Click!

  • Research
  • Robotics
  • Coding
  • Press
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Invited talk at HRI 2025, T-HRI session today

Prof. Hatice presented our work on design and ethical recommendations for robotic well-being coaches at the HRI conference in Melbourne today.

  • Research
  • Robotics
  • Conference
  • HRI
  • Speaking
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