{"id":510,"date":"2018-11-14T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=510"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:20:07","slug":"habitats-for-robotic-pets-project-receives-interdisciplinary-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/habitats-for-robotic-pets-project-receives-interdisciplinary-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitats for Robotic Pets project receives interdisciplinary research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting collaboration between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brl.ac.uk\">Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/et\/abe.aspx\">Department of Architecture and the Built Environmen<\/a>t at UWE Bristol has received interdisciplinary research funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/SeverinLemaignan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-512 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/CojVQg.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 85vw, 344px\" \/>Dr S\u00e9verin Lemaignan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/louisrice\">Dr Louis Rice<\/a> have secured the funding within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/et\/\">Faculty of Environment and Technology<\/a> for their project <em>&#8220;A Habitat for Robotic Pets&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They plan to explore, in a rather playful way, how humans and robots might share space in our daily environment. Around five small robots, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anki.com\/en-gb\/vector\">these from Anki<\/a>, will spend a week in one of UWE Bristol&#8217;s\u00a0caf\u00e9 spaces (watch this space to find out when and where!),\u00a0living their own life, with their own unique personalities, &#8230;and their own special &#8216;habitat&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-514 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/oC6N2jwQ.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The robots&#8217; behaviours and their small &#8216;houses&#8217; will be entirely designed and built by students from both Architecture and Robotics. The project will look at how people accept, interact, and share their space with the mini-beasts. A lot of fun is expected!<\/p>\n<p><em>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anki.com\">Anki<\/a> for supplying and giving permission to use the images in this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting collaboration between the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at UWE Bristol has received interdisciplinary research funding. Dr S\u00e9verin Lemaignan and Dr Louis Rice have secured the funding within the Faculty of Environment and Technology for their project &#8220;A Habitat for Robotic Pets&#8221;. They plan to explore, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/habitats-for-robotic-pets-project-receives-interdisciplinary-research-funding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Habitats for Robotic Pets project receives interdisciplinary research funding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,52,90],"tags":[91,46,93,92],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-research","tag-architecture-and-the-built-environment","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-louis-rice","tag-severin-lemaignan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}