CRIS houses a multidisciplinary group with interests in both static and mobile robotics and their constituent technologies.

• Artificial Vision sensing is another common theme in many projects. These include applications as diverse as the:
  
  • Visual Identification of Marine Plankton.
  • Vision for Autonomous Robot Navigation
  • Visual Object Recognition.
    
    
• Intelligent, multi-agent behaviour , as applied to:
  • Mirosot robot football, provides an interesting focus for group activities.
    
    
• Biologically inspired control and behaviour is a common theme in much of the group's work. Applications include the:
  • Development and study of miniature robot 'bugs',
  • Myoelectric teleoperation
  • Planning and Spatial Memory
  • Time delays Compensation in Control.
    
    
• Human-Robot Interaction using natural language is a strong theme covering
  • Service and Personal Robot Programming using Verbal Communication
  • Concept formation from verbal interaction
  • User-Centred design in Service Robotics.
    

The group has strong national and international links with both industry and research institutes. It is represented on the board of the British Automation and Robot Association, the IEE and the EU-funded Robotics Research Network (EURON).

CRIS collaborates also with the Marine Robotics group Midas , with the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience ., and the Institute of Digital Art and Technology . CRIS contributes to the activities of the Robotics Club and runs a MSc in Robotics.

For further information please visit the Robotics and Intelligent Systems website.