An invitation from intelligent robots

The first NCAF conference of 2009 will be held at the University of Sunderland, and hosted by the Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) and the NESTCOM project. The event will be held at the Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter’s along the banks of the River Wear with a special evening event at Sunderland’s National Glass Centre. On arriving at St.Peter’s you will enter into the award winning David Goldman Informatics Centre, which has been described by some students as a ‘computing cathedral’. The focus of this natural computing application forum meeting will be Intelligent Robotics. The Hybrid Intelligent Systems group has an international reputation in this area and has produced award winning intelligent interactive robotic systems. The group has participated and co-ordinated several European Union and several Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) projects including EmerNet, Micram, Mirrorbot, Mira, and NESTCOM. The HIS group has developed robots that are capable of natural behaviour in everyday real world situations. This involves investigating many cognitive tasks, for example, navigation, language processing and visual recognition. In a number of projects we use our cognitive robots to study learning and communication in real world environments. The foundation and motivation for much of our research comes from natural systems such as biological systems, neural systems or cognitive systems. We use these foundations in order to build more sophisticated adaptive interaction systems, learning agents, self-organising information systems and robotic engineering systems.

@Misc{Wer09, 
 	 author =  {Wermter, Stefan},  
 	 title = {An invitation from intelligent robots}, 
 	 year = {2009},
 	 month = {Jan},
 	 doi = {}, 
 }