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Education Secretary Prioritizes Coding and Cloud Accessible Digital Tools to Improve Computer Science Provision in Schools

Education Secretary Prioritizes Coding and Cloud Accessible Digital Tools to Improve Computer Science Provision in Schools

We at Consequential Robotics have been extremely encouraged to learn about the UK Government’s own assessment and priorities for the needs of schools and families. Read on to learn about why coding in schools is top of mind.

Are Social Robots Effective in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety?

Are Social Robots Effective in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety?

Last month, the University of Waterloo (Samira Rasouli, Garima Gupta, Elizabeth Nilsen & Kerstin Dautenhahn) published a paper on the effectiveness of social robots for clinicians and patients in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety. They used MiRo and a range of social robots in their study.

Can Robots Care?

Can Robots Care?

Looking for a fun exhibition for the New Year? Come and visit MiRo at the prestigious Thackray Museum of Medicine! The playful ‘Can Robots care?’ exhibition offers visitors the chance to explore a range of robots designed to care for humans.

How can universities stimulate interest and learning in large classes with both in-person and remote participation?

How can universities stimulate interest and learning in large classes with both in-person and remote participation?

On-campus learning is key to student experience but how can this be balanced with the benefits of teaching online or to utilise the best that technology has to offer? I will answer this question here.

Supporting creativity in young people

Supporting creativity in young people

Creative skills are invaluable in every industry and in everyday life and we all share a measure of responsibility for helping young people get started. However, when the pandemic hit, the cultural sector and the creative industries suffered more than most. It decimated the National Youth Theatre’s (NYT) income, and they were unable to host in-person fundraising events to raise vital funds required to support their work. Read on to learn how MiRo helped.

How can you stimulate interest in coding?

How can you stimulate interest in coding?

In the future, there will be a demand for more and more Artificial Intelligence [AI] coding to run our cities and the devices we use in our home for housework, security, homeworking and entertainment. Staring at a screen looking at line after line of code appeals to some more than others so how can you stimulate yours or your pupils' interest in coding?

Can Robots Support Social Distancing within the Home?

Can Robots Support Social Distancing within the Home?

Hear from Professor Lynne Baillie from the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, who, along with Computer Science graduate Neve Curnyn, investigated whether MiRo could assist with social distancing within the home.

Engineering a brain for MiRo - Part 2

What does a model of a brain actually look like? The answer is that they come in many, many forms. For example, some scientific groups work at a very detailed level, trying to understand how individual neurons, or groups of neurons, work to perform the functions that form the building blocks of behaviour.

Engineering a brain for MiRo - Part 1

MiRo was created to sense the world and then act on it. In this two part blog post, we are asked Consequential Robotics CTO Dr Ben Mitchinson to talk us through the origins of MIRO’s biomimetic brain.

Meet Katie! CqR's Newest Lead Researcher

Welcome Katie, we’re excited to have you on board! Katie joins us as the Lead Researcher who will be working on enhancing the MiRo-E robot user experience. Click through to read about Katie in her own words.