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To get involved with this. so theres quite a big push i at the moment for human robot interaction, so caregiving robots in hospitals, and care homes, i so maybe for patients who are lonely and dont have anybody— to come and visit them. some of the money for the team comes from a big company whose future will rely on this kind of technology. certainly with the high level skills, we find difficult in recruiting. theres a shortage, there is high demand because lots of industries are now going for...

It is all a bit tense because they are actually doing the competition run now. it is being watched in italy. keeping an eye on us via live video link are judges and other competing teams at the main event in bologna. and we have the overview here, but we have already the robot where we have already the robot standing and looking into the container. 13 international teams are competing in this competition. six of them remotely, including cranfield. gilbert, that was very expertly done, but the re...

Competitions allows us to keep in touch with the recruitment pipeline _ and some of the excellent research that is going on. a bit of talent spotting? definitely. robots are the future, but programming them to be as good as humans at some tasks is still many years away. richard wescott, bbc news, cranfield in bedfordshire. a film about illegal abortions in 1960s france has won the main golden lion prize at the venice film festival. audrey diwan — who directed happening — said shed made the m...

In this competition. six of them remotely, including cranfield. gilbert, that was very expertly done, but the reality is a child could do that. why is it so hard for a robot to do it? something that seems so easy for us humans to do is actually extremely complicated for robots because firstly the robot will have to be able to see the item through its camera. secondly, it will have to process the image using some really clever algorithm to identify what type of object it is, what orientation the ...