L-CAS Social Robotics

University of Lincoln

A day out in the museum with robots

Cultural experiences, such as going to a museum, can have a positive effect on your wellbeing. However, guided visits are not always accessible for everybody, often leaving vulnerable members of society feeling excluded. Robotics has the potential to make the experience more engaging by personalising the experience to each visitor. They can also enable access to different audiences that would otherwise not be able to experience them, such as disabled people and people with social anxiety. In this demo, we will showcase how this can be achieved in a public museum with a mobile robot and a telepresence robot.

Meet the Team

We are a cross-disciplinary research group specialising in technologies for perception, learning, decision-making, control and interaction in autonomous systems. We target the integration of these capabilities in application domains including social robotics, agri-food, healthcare, intelligent transportation, logistics, nuclear robotics, service robotics, and space robotics. Our team strongly focuses on real-world robotics applications with deployments ranging from archaeological museums and care homes to nuclear sites and strawberry farms. Our objective is to work on technologies for enhancing the quality of life, our health, well-being and the food we eat.