Alan Winfield

Alan is deeply interested in mobile robots for two reasons: they are complex and potentially useful machines that embody every known design challenge and discipline, robots allow humans to address some deep questions about life, emergence, culture and intelligence in a radically new way, i.e. by building models.

Thus for Alan, robotics is both an engineering and experimental philosophy. Alan is committed to the widest possible dissemination of research and ideas in science, engineering and technology and believes that robots provide us with a wonderful vehicle for public engagement. As a passionate believer that intelligent robots will become ubiquitous in the near future, Alan is committed to starting a dialogue now about the ethical and moral questions that will arise.