Intelligent Robots in Science and Society

我有幸领导EPSRC的公共参与项目“与机器人同行”，该项目将把英国的智能机器人研究带出研究实验室，进入公共空间、科学中心、科学节和学校。事实证明，与机器人同行取得了非凡的成功。在最初的两年里，该项目在英国各地组织或参与了160个不同的活动和活动，接触到了大约6万名观众。该项目正在教育和娱乐幼儿及其家庭，鼓励青少年思考机器人可能会对他们的生活产生什么影响，并让成年人参与到关于智能机器人在社会中提出的伦理问题的严肃辩论中。我对科学和工程充满热情，对交流科学和工程充满热情。我相信，我可以做更多的事情来解释和解释智能机器人现在在非常广泛和多学科领域的进步，并通过机器人向公众传达研究的兴奋和价值。此外，作为一名电子工程师、企业家和知识从研究创意转化为商业产品的促进者，我拥有丰富的经验，这意味着我可以将我的公共参与工作置于经济和财富创造的现实世界背景下。我提议设立高级媒体研究员，重点关注科学和社会中的智能机器人。这个主题将探索和解释智能机器人技术的快速发展，以及这些进步对社会的更广泛影响。我提出了一个围绕我目前的研究项目构建的媒体活动计划，特别是EPSRC项目--机器人社会中人工文化的出现。这些活动将包括一部电视纪录片，讲述人工文化项目展开时的故事。该项目将包括传统广播电视和在线项目电视；后者旨在接触更年轻的受众，并以传统广播媒体无法实现的方式将这些受众与研究联系起来。

I am privileged to lead the EPSRC public engagement project 'Walking with Robots', a project that is taking the UK's intelligent robotics research out of the research lab and into public spaces, science centres, science festivals and schools. Walking with Robots is proving to be an extraordinary success. In its first two years the project has either organised or participated in 160 different events and activities around the UK, reaching an audience of about 60,000. The project is educating and entertaining young children and their families, encouraging teenage children to think about what impact robots might have in their lifetimes and engaging adults in serious debates about the ethical questions raised by intelligent robots in society.I am passionate about science and engineering, and passionate about communicating science and engineering. I believe that there is much more that I can do to explain and interpret advances in the very broad and multidisciplinary field that intelligent robotics now is and, through robotics, convey the excitement and value of research to the public. Furthermore, my broad experience as an electronic engineer, entrepreneur and facilitator of knowledge transfer from research idea to commercial product, means that I can set my public engagement work in the real-world context of economics and wealth creation.I propose a Senior Media Fellowship with a focus on intelligent robots in science and society. A theme that will explore and explain the very rapid advances in intelligent robotics, and the wider implications of those advances to society. I propose a programme of media activities structured around my current research projects, especially EPSRC project 'The Emergence of Artificial Culture in Robot Societies'. Those activities will include a TV documentary telling the story of the artificial culture project as it unfolds. The project will encompass both traditional broadcast TV and online project TV; the latter designed to reach younger audiences and connect those audiences with research in a way that is not possible with traditional broadcast media.