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Vodcast #6 – Professor Kevin Warwick on Cybernetics

09/12/2010 - 17:25

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Health and Wellbeing Lunch Debate

09/12/2010 - 17:07

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The recent lunch debate on Health and Wellbeing explored future scenarios for old age, medicine, care and the human body, asking what sort of future should we be preparing our young people for? Robots and Avatars brought together a range of experts including Professor Raymond Tallis (Emeritus Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of [...]

Virtual/Physical Play Robot

01/12/2010 - 17:42

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Here is an intresting article from Gizmag about The Playtime Computing System developed by MIT Media Laboratory’s Personal Robots Group. The system blends robotic and virtual interfaces and is currently designed for children between the ages of 4 and 6 years old. This blend also allows the device to be used with telepresence, enabling a play and learning [...]

Vodcast #4 – Thecla Schiphorst

29/11/2010 - 14:48

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Thecla Schiphorst is a Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. On sensory technologies and the future of education and can be used as an introduction for young people to Sensory Technologie

Vodcast #5 – Professor Raymond Tallis

09/11/2010 - 12:24

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Learning Experiences in Harris Academies

07/10/2010 - 13:24

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The new school year is well underway and body>data>space and Robots and Avatars have been delivering learning experiences at both the Harris Academy South Norwood and Harris Academy Merton. With the students at South Norwood we have been exploring Telepresence – full body two way video connections projected onto very large screens and at Merton we [...]

idiscover Learning Experiences

07/10/2010 - 13:07

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Robots and Avatars are delivering a series of learning experiences as part of iDiscover which engage young people in the skill-sets, aptitudes, resources and methodologies they will require for work and play in the future. The learning experiences explore issues of identity, communication and team work for the 21st century with young people. Through the [...]

Outrace – Robots in Trafalgar Square

06/10/2010 - 14:16

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This year as part of London Design Festival the public were invited to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi’s production line. OUTRACE is an installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram, that consists of 6 independent systems coordinated by one KWTC CONTROLLER. Messages were sent in by the public, via a [...]

Robots and Avatars Vodcast

31/08/2010 - 16:36

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Vodcast #3 – Professor Anna Craft Professor of Education, University of Exeter and The Open University On behaviours and ethics in education. With Professor Anna Craft, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter and the Open University. robotsandavatars.net

State of the UK Gaming Sector

13/08/2010 - 10:37

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TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today released key findings from a new report ‘State of the UK Video Games Development Sector’. The report is a comprehensive survey of 78 UK games development businesses and provides an accurate picture of games development in the UK. The report covers areas such as industry [...]

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