Robotics for All

Through the emergence of open source software and low cost development boards, we have already witnessed what can be described as a ‘democratisation’ of electronics.

....Since 2008, thanks to European Union funding, the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) has undertaken pioneering research into how human beings and modern robotic systems might coexist with one another. This work is contributing to the technological progression of a new breed of collaborative robots - or ‘cobots’.

Based on predictions from various industry analysts, major growth markets in the coming years (aside from the industrial space) are likely to be agricultural robots, social functioning ‘companion’ robots (building on the popularity of smart speakers) and assisted living robots (to make up for the shortfall in carers and our aging population demographic). Professor Manuel Giuliani, who leads the BRL’s Embodied Cognition for Human-Robot Interaction (ECHOS) Team, shares the sentiments of Automata’s Elsayed.