Imperial Lates: Robots

Thursday 29 October | 18.00–21.00

A researcher in a pink cardigan tells two visitors about her exhibit. One visitor looks on smiling, while the second is seated and wearing a device on his head to measure brain activity.
A map of Imperial Lates: Robots. The numbers on the map correspond with items on the programme

Talks

City and Guilds Lecture Theatre

1 Robot Talk: Love, sex and robot companions
18.40–19.25
2 What my robot taught me about being human
20.00–20.40

Ground Floor Drum Lecture Theatre

14 Rapid-fire robot talks
18.45–19.05: Why are we making a robotic sea turtle? (Luke Muscutt)
19.30–19.50: An unexpected journey: becoming a nanorobotics engineer (Julia Camacho Wejbrandt)
20.25–20.45: Flexible fibre bots for safer surgery (Louis Van der Elst)

Lower Ground Floor Business School

15 Plant-powered robots
19.05–19.30 and 19.55–20.20

A talk panel of 4 people sitting in chairs in front of a projector screen, with laptops and other objects on the table to the left. They are smiling while in discussion.
A group of people talking and sitting around a table, while crafting with paper and scissors. On the table there are various crafting supplies.

Workshops and tours

City and Guilds Building

7 Lego robot city

Main Reception Area

8 Rough sea robotics tour
13 Make a body bot

Lower Ground Floor Business School

18 Your AI hopes and fears lab

Exhibits

City and Guilds building

3 RoboDoc: robots and radiation in healthcare
4 Building intelligence into the body
5 Robots in space
6 DIGIBAT – the lab that learns

Main Reception area

9 Underwater robots
10 RoboFootball
11 Robotic cell painting
12 Flexible fibre bots

Lower Ground Floor Business School

16 The continuous popcorn making machine CANCELLED
17 Talk to me, robot

Two women standing next to each other in front of a rack covered in yellow slips of paper, attached by string and covered in writing. Both are tying their own slip to the rack.
A group of three people looking into a microscope at an exhibit table.

Timed events

City and Guilds Lecture Theatre

1 Robot Talk: Love, sex and robot companions
18.40–19.25
2 What my robot taught me about being human
20.00–20.40

Ground Floor Drum Lecture Theatre

14 Rapid-fire robot talks
18.45–19.05: Why are we making a robotic sea turtle? (Luke Muscutt)
19.30–19.50: An unexpected journey: becoming a nanorobotics engineer (Julia Camacho Wejbrandt)
20.25–20.45: Flexible fibre bots for safer surgery (Louis Van der Elst)

Lower Ground Floor Business School

15 Plant-powered robots
19.05–19.30 and 19.55–20.20

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