A Reflection on The Connected Everything and Smart Products Beacon Summer School 2020
November 27, 2023
A Reflection on The Connected Everything and Smart Products Beacon Summer School 2020 post by Cecily Pepper (2019 cohort) My first summer school started with an invite via email. Despite my interest in the topic, my first thought was that robotics was not my area of expertise (coming from a social science background), so maybe …
The Future Machine update
November 27, 2020
Creating Rituals For When The Future Comes A performance of the Future Machine in London took place with musicians Alex Dayo, David Kemp, Miles Ncube, Indira Lemouchi, Furtherfield Commons, the weather and the Future Machine. Bringing music, art, nature, climate and weather together in these difficult and uncertain times, to celebrate the Autumn and think about …
Connected Everything Network and Smart Products Beacon summer school video
October 5, 2020
To celebrate the success of our Summer School, co-hosted with the Connected Everything Network, we have produced a video capturing highlights of the three-day event. The Summer School brought together a diverse group of talented postgraduate students to learn about the challenges innovators face when integrating collaborative robotics into a variety of settings. Delegates were …
Live Cinema III – The ReOpening
September 9, 2020
As we celebrate the reopening of independent cinemas in September, it seems like a good moment to take stock. Research and development innovations in screen spectatorship haven’t stopped during this period; they’ve shifted in focus and techniques. The creative sector is by nature imaginative and by necessity adaptable. But this is taken for granted, with …
Connected Everything & Smart Products Beacon Online Summer School – review
July 28, 2020
Connected Everything and the Smart Products Beacon at the University of Nottingham joined forces to organise an online, three-day Summer School. It focused on the use of collaborative robots (COBOTs) in a post-COVID-19 world in the specific settings of Agri-robotics and those in home and healthcare settings. Chaired by Professor Steve Benford and Dr Nicholas …
