United Nations AI for Good conference

I’m really happy to have attended the United Nations’ (omg!) summit on AI for Good with AFAR Lab, particularly my awesome PhD supervisor Prof. Hatice Gunes (thanks for the invite!) and my lovely collaborator (newly minted) Prof. Micol Spitale. We presented our recent work on computational architectures for wellbeing robots, as well as robots to support childrens’ wellbeing. Shoutout to Nida Abbasi for her interesting work on robots for kids!

Three women behind a white plastic child-shaped robot.

Prof. Hatice Gunes, me, and Prof. Micol Spitale, with QTrobot.

I was also really happy to be interviewed for Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) about robots for wellbeing, along other roboticists talking about their work. Although, I did find some of the more human-like ones somewhat creepy… Artificial skin gives me the uncanny valley heebie jeebies!

A woman being interviewed for news, with a robot behind her and a microphone being held up to her by a repoter.

Interviewed for RTS, for their evening news.

Also lovely to see colleagues from the Centre for Human-Inspired AI, where I’ll be doing some teaching next year!

Five women with a robot.

With CHIA staff and contributors! Shoutout to Prof. Anna Korhonen (Finnish representation in the UK AI research scene!) and ofc Prof. Hatice Gunes.

Woman giving TV interview.

RTS screenap - I need to practice my TV face clearly!