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Team Canada’s men’s artistic gymnastics team of René Cournoyer, Zachary Clay, Félix Dolci, William Émard and Samuel Zakutney kicked off their Olympic campaign at Bercy Arena. 💪 They qualified for the team event final in eighth place, scoring 247.794. 🙌 olympic.ca/2024/07/27/tea…

Work in progress ... I am planning to make the Breath of the Wild version, so far this is all of the common parts of the build before you decide.

So yeah. This is how I spent the weekend ... I love all the little plot details throughout. Didn't love the leaves/flowers so much but it was worth it. (Full disclosure, we actually bought two sets, my son is still working on building the Ocarina of Time version ...)

Local chair update: merch is starting to arrive for The IVA Conference!

Had a great time presenting the first paper of my PhD, co-written with @maryellenfoster.bsky.social and Emily S. Cross, at RO-MAN 2025 last week! We used a creative, "Research through Design" approach to explore how laypeople think about robotic embodiment 🤖

The #ACII2024 and #IVA2024 Welcome Reception is underway! We’re honoured to have Bailie Anthony Carroll, on behalf of Lord Provost of Glasgow, delivering the Civic Welcome. Thanks to Glasgow City Council for their support in making this evening a memorable start to our conference!!🤩

The second edition of our Human-Robot Interaction textbook is available. With updated content, new topics (yes we cover how the AI revolution will drive our interaction with bots) and shiny technicolour images. shorturl.at/to3gr Download chapters at human-robot-interaction.org

Local chair duties complete for The IVA Conference and a bit of ACII2024 as well. And ... breathe.

Sunny Glasgow The IVA Conference provided a great place to discuss @maryellenfoster.bsky.social Peggy Gregory and my work on why the HRI field needs more diverse stakeholder involvement and engagement to stop robot deployments failing in the real world Social AI Group @ UofGlasgow

Proud of my lab members for submitting FOUR abstracts to The HRI Conference this year! Going to be a busy but hopefully fun week finalising the papers now ... maryellenfoster.uk/team

Make that four FULL PAPERS submitted, or very close to submission. And now we wait ... Well done to Amol Deshmukh Andrés Ramírez 🇨🇴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Andrew Blair Shauli Ashkenazi, and big thanks to all of our co-authors.

Check out this view from the top of the Boyd Orr building! University of Glasgow UofG Computing Science 🌈🌈

We extend a warm welcome to @maryellenfoster.bsky.social UofG Computing Science as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of #SocialRobotics. We wish her all the best in advancing the journal alongside her fellow Editors-in-Chief, Agnieszka Wykowska and Oussama Khatib. 🔗bit.ly/4f28XTk

Achievement unlocked Pokémon GO

Did it again but more. Don't think I'll make it this week though ...