Announcements

Humans relate to coughing robot How can we make conversational robots more human-like? Dr Elizabeth Broadbent, Associate Professor in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland has been looking in to this, and has found some recent studies that show human...

Bring on the Robots: Earth in 2040 The New Zealand Heralds’ Science Reporter Jamie Morton recently wrote an article looking at how technology will change our lives over the next two decades.  Jamie looks specifically at how our jobs, homes, roads and health will be...

CARES featured in New Zealand Geographic “The Robots Will See You Now”….. The CARES team are featured in New Zealand Geographic’s latest issue. Naomi Arnold came to interview members of our team for this special article which puts a spotlight on how robotics can...

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2017) The Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2017) held in Japan this month, brought together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and robots and on the...

Congratulations Part IV Engineering students The CARES team would like to congratulate our Part IV Engineering students on the completion of their research projects. The Part IV research project is a learning exercise that allows final year Bachelor of Engineering...

Taiwanese ministerial visit to the Newmarket Innovation Campus Taiwan’s Vice-Minister of Economic Affairs Ms. Mei-Hua Wang led a delegation of 15 Industry and Government high officials on Tuesday 31st October visiting the University of Auckland’s Innovation Campus in...