Upcoming events

The first part of the talk focuses on Yokohama Rubber Company and its Human-AI Collaboration Laboratory concept, known as HAICoLab. Here, Human-AI collaboration is embedded directly into materials science and engineering workflows. AI systems analyse large-scale experimental and production data, while human experts frame hypotheses, judge outputs, and intervene where data is incomplete or misleading. This approach has been applied to tyre and rubber design, where explainability and human judgement remain central to decision-making. Rather than replacing engineers, AI is positioned as a partner that accelerates exploration while keeping responsibility with people. I’m pleased to say they have verbally committed to commissioning a pilot project with the Computational Foundry.

Panasonic’s work in Japan spans AI, robotics, and human–agent interaction, with a strong emphasis on how agents coexist with people over long periods. Through Panasonic AI and the Aug Lab, research has examined voice agents, embodied robots, and interactive systems that deal with trust, emotion, timing, and everyday use. The focus is more on negotiated interaction, where systems adapt to human behaviour and users learn how to work with those systems. This creates clear doctoral research questions around sustained interaction, shared control, and how people develop practical understanding of agent behaviour over time.

Beyond the Prototype: Building the Roadmap to Impact—a full‑day final workshop on Wednesday 11 February 2026 bringing together clinicians, researchers, and industry to accelerate the translation of anAI‑enabled, wearable, multi‑parameter monitoring platform for chronic disease management, with an initial focus on heart failure.

With sincere thanks to our invited keynote speakers—Marco Ceccarelli, Giuseppe Zuccalà, Jo Davies, Christopher George, Andrea Tales—and to our industry contributors AEbiosystem and Everybotics for supporting the showcase and demo stands.

This is a collaboration‑driven day focused on what it takes to move beyond technical feasibility and into delivery:manufacturability, clinical pathway fit, ethics/feasibility readiness, and the roadmap to trials and adoption.

click here for the full details: https://csevents.swansea.ac.uk/calendar_event/beyond-the-prototype-building-the-roadmap-to-impact/

Please join us (EHP, GENCAS, and CoDAH) on 25/03 at 1pm for a talk from Avey Nelson, who will be presenting their work on queer digital neoliberalism. Avey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex, specialising in rhetoric and composition, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.

In addition, Ninian Frenguelli (Research Officer in CSSP) and I will be giving reciprocal talks at Sussex in a panel event (“Trans Politics and the Digital”) on 09/03 at 4pm organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab that you are welcome to join.