Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME) lecture: miRobot 
Thursday 3 October 2013 at 7pm, University of Bath, East Building Lecture Theatre 1.1
This lecture examines the technical and social challenges in creating robotics that can deliver healthcare, improve our wellbeing, and enhance medical treatment.
Research in robotics is approaching a critical phase. Driven by a number of factors, research laboratories around the world have been transforming robot technology until it is poised for large-scale emergence from the isolation of the factory shop-floor to operate with us and amongst us to improve the quality of our lives. The motivating factors range from significant side-effects of the continuously improving age demographic, to the huge potential for ground-breaking technical advances in surgery.
With the ground-breaking work carried out in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory as the backdrop, the biggest research unit of its type in the UK, Professor Tony Pipe will consider the huge potential benefit to human society that are balanced by the great technical challenges to be faced, as well as briefly reflecting on some of the social and other effects to be taken into account.
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Digital Health event
Thursday 21 November 2013 in Bristol 5.30pm – 9pm
An evening networking event with Graham Worsley, Technology Strategy Board presenting on DALLAS (Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles At Scale) plus presentations from mobile technology companies.
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