The Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement
13 December 2023Meet the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
The life robotic: Meet the Cambridge University researchers fostering human wellbeing using robots
19 July 2023The team is exploring the capacity robots have to inspire self-reflection, and support the work of psychologists and clinicians.
Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right
15 March 2023Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks like.
Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests
01 September 2022Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.
Wellbeing on demand
24 May 2021Robotics researchers are creating an emotionally intelligent wellbeing coach, available 24/7 to help make us more resilient to life’s challenges.
Robots can go all the way to Mars, but they can’t pick up the groceries
21 December 2018In the popular imagination, robots have been portrayed alternatively as friendly companions or existential threat. But while robots are becoming commonplace in many industries, they are neither C-3PO nor the Terminator. Cambridge researchers are studying the interaction between robots and humans – and teaching them how to do the very difficult things that we find easy. Click here to find out more.
