Smart Products Beacon update
May 4, 2020
Updates on Demonstrator Projects: Food Design for the Future (FD2) ICUBE RoboClean Projects Policy Ideation Cards This project aimed to create a prototype deck of ideation cards that will facilitate users to plan a campaign that influences policy. In collaboration with the Institute for Policy and Engagement at the University – utilising their expertise in …
ICUBE
Collaborative robots – or co-bots – currently rely on physically mechanical, hierarchical instructions delivered explicitly by humans, without consideration to other important characteristics – pose, expression and language. Co-bots therefore lack the ability to sense humans and their behaviour appropriately. I-CUBE has been addressing this challenge and initiated a study to capture the language and gestures used by humans whilst collaborating with robots conducting a simple laundry sorting task. The …
RoboClean
RoboClean – a Beacon Demonstrator project on Natural Language in Human-Robot Interaction and Allergen Sensing In food and drink manufacturing, cleaning takes a significant amount of employee time, bearing a major impact on productivity and manufacturing efficiency. One of the biggest challenges faced by manufacturers is the cross contamination of allergens. The RoboClean project has explored the two-fold challenge of …
Food Design for the Future (FD2)
Food Design 2 is one of our initial demonstrator projects and has been addressing food in the digital era by exploring the use of digital technologies to enhance the food consumption experience. Work to date has included the development a deck of food ideation cards, which combine different sensory properties of food, consumption contexts and …
Spring Without The Future Machine
April 29, 2020
Due to Covid-19 and the lockdown the Future Machine is also in lockdown in my studio in Nottingham. I am in London living on our narrow boat on the River Lea. I have some parts of the machine here, it’s brain, the trumpets, the new steel and brass dials half made. I am working with …
PhD/MA Opportunity at Shanghai Jiaotong University
March 26, 2020
“I’ve recently started my position as Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University – rated as one of the top three in China – and one of the main collaborators in the AHRC-funded connected museum project. Professor Steve Benford and I have been discussing plans for exporting and adapting the GIFT project to Chinese museums, and …
Connected Everything – 9th International Through-life Engineering Services Conference 2020
March 25, 2020
The Call for Papers is open for the forthcoming 9th International Through-life Engineering Services Conference 2020 (TESConf 2020) on the 3rd and 4th of November. The deadline for Abstract submission is the 6th of April. See Connected Everything Website for more details. We are currently planning for the conference to be hosted at Cranfield University, but depending on how the …
The MOMENT
March 20, 2020
We talked to Richard Ramchurn, producer of The MOMENT about The Live Score Tour 2020 “Receiving funding from the Smart Products Beacon allows us to further develop our EPSRC supported ‘Live Score’ of our Brain Controlled film The MOMENT. Following the success of our initial preview events at Lakeside Arts and Reykjavik International Film Festival …
Good News
Congratulations to Michel Valstar who has been promoted to Full Professor in Computer Sciences, Faculty of Sciences at the University of Nottingham.
Connected Everything – We are recruiting
March 19, 2020
Research Associate/Fellow and Knowledge Exchange Lead for Connected Everything This is an exciting role, based at the University of Nottingham, which supports the EPSRC funded Connected Everything Network Plus. This brings together research from the Manufacturing, Engineering, Sciences (computer, physical and social), Digital Economy, Design, Human Factors and Business communities to build new collaborations between …
