Overview
New Scientist Live is a celebration of science, technology & engineering, offering visitors a packed four days of leading speakers, interactive demonstrations and innovative products and services from companies looking to engage with a scientifically literate audience. It has a four zone format, designed to cover all aspects of science, technology and engineering, which will each play host to relevant demonstrations.
Explore how robots and computers are merging to create the artificial intelligence of the future with researchers from Imperial College London. Meet drones that see like insects, design your own robot computer game and find out whether robots will ever be able to do the ironing.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/robotics
Imperial Exhibitors
Dr Mirko Kovac
Aerial robots flying around the ‘drone enclosure’, robot on display and videos of aerial robots in action.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/aerial-robotics/
Professor Etienne Burdet
Robots and assistive devices can be developed to assist patients following a stroke and children born with conditions such as cerebral palsy. Showcasing NHS innovation award winning Gripable and other devices developed by the lab. Visitors will be able to test the role of robotic technology in rehabilitation.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/human-robotics
Dr Petar Kormushev
Could a robot flip a pancake or do the ironing? Find out how machine learning could lead to autonomous robots able to adapt to their environments.
http://kormushev.com/research/videos/
Professor Holger Krapp
Experience how studying how flies collect multi-sensory information as they move can help us design new autonomous robots and assistive systems. Visitors will be able to experience the world through the eyes of a fly and try to perform simple motor tasks and see how you might look through the eyes of a fly.
http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/h.krapp/
Professor Ferdinando Rodrigues Y Baena
From virtual reality headsets to robotic hands, interact with a variety of different robotic and virtual imaging devices, and meet researchers who are using robotics to improve and innovate surgical procedures.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronics-in-medicine
Dr Robert Merrifield
Hands-on activity based on the autonomous driving challenge www.autrivechallenge.ort and our robot bug challenge www.robotbug.org. These activities involve visitors drawing a robot or vehicle on a piece of paper, turning it into 3D using software that I have developed and teaching it to move.
http://www.autodrivechallenge.org/instructions.pdf
http://www.robotbug.org/instructionpack2.pdf
Ellen Dowell
An interactive workshop called DIY Heart Cells using conductive playdough to make perfect cardiomyocytes – the beating cells in your heart. Get a heart painted on your hand; navigate through the heart with our interactive simulation game and 3D human images; and learn how we treat people with heart rhythm problems.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/interact/public-engagement/diy-heart-cells/
In addition to these activities there will be a space for visitors to share their ideas about the future of robotics.
Tickets
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