• Question: how many robots have you made in the past few years, and can you take them home with you?

    Asked by max to Siobhan, Iulia on 14 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by Adrian.
    • Photo: Siobhan Duncan

      Siobhan Duncan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      This is a cool question thanks.

      Everything I make whilst I am at university belongs to the university, so I can’t take it home unfortunately.

      But things I build at home, they belong to me 🙂

      I am building a robot in my spare time which I will use to drive around my house, taking videos of my cats, to see what they do when I am not there.

      But at uni, I use university money to pay for all of the parts that my robots are made from, so they have to stay at uni.

      So far I have only built two robots, however this summer I am planning on building 5 robots that are exactly the same, in order to test out some of my theories about swarm robots. 🙂

      But as part of my job, I get to meet lots of cool robots and play with them sometimes. You can see some of them on my profile /roboticsm17-zone/profile/siobhanduncan/

      But I don’t get to take any of those ones home 🙁

      Siobhan

    • Photo: Iulia Motoc

      Iulia Motoc answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      I haven’t built a robot yet, as this was not part of my PhD. I am just working on the control part of the robots. However, if a robot is bought by the university, or if it was build with parts bought by the university, the robot belongs to the university.

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