Find out more below about other exciting projects that our collaborators are working on.
Biohybrid Futures
Biohybrid Futures is a research project aimed at understanding the societal, ethical, and environmental implications of bio-hybrid robotics. These advanced systems combine biological tissues with artificial materials, creating robots that can perform tasks previously unimaginable.
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SOUNDSCALE
SOUNDSCALE aims at revolutionising urban planning for smart cities through an interdisciplinary, citizen-centric, and bottom-up approach for the development of AI-assisted distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technologies. We will integrate a spectrum of research methodologies, ensuring each discipline informs the others at every stage. This includes unlocking the physical sensing capabilities of legacy optical fibre cables in a UKRI facility; measuring social, spatial, and health inequalities in cities through extensive data linkage; conducting arts-based research to explore citizen’s lived experiences; and studying AI ethics, policy, and environmental implications.
Simultaneously, we will incorporate citizen participation, deliberation, and narratives throughout, fostering a co-creation process, underpinned by a humanistic perspective on the complex intersection of culture, media, society, technology, and critical infrastructures. Our project not only offers a new paradigm for regulating emergent technologies with citizens at the forefront but also commits to mitigating risks, addressing ethical concerns, and ensuring ground-breaking technologies are sustainable, privacy-compliant, and inclusive. In our project, multiple disciplines, from physical, social and environmental sciences to humanities, will interlace in a cohesive project, informing each other at every stage and providing reciprocal benefits.
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