Robot House

University of Hertfordshire

Robo-vacation! A well-deserved break

We would like to invite you to join us in the Robot House and support the robot residents helping the team get ready for the summer holidays! While the team are packing their bags, you will be able to decide how the robots should support us, for example, planning the journey and what to pack, providing food or drinks, or informing our friends about our schedule. You will participate in an engaging and fun scenario while learning how our robots can interact with humans, how they work internally, and what research questions we address in such scenarios.

Meet the Team

We are a team of human-robot interaction researchers at the University of Hertfordshire’s Robot House, a unique facility to conduct research in an authentic domestic environment. The demo team is led by Dr Patrick Holthaus who is managing the facility. The core team will consist of one lecturer and two graduate students whose research projects are closely related to or facilitated by the robot house. Individual projects revolve around social robotics (e.g. personalisation) and assistive robotics (e.g. wearable technology) where we explore how to ensure robots’ potential and their behaviours to act in a socially acceptable way and to engender trust among the people that interact with them. Many of our research projects are focused on investigating how robotics technologies can support independent living in later life.