BIRL in Media

2024
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING NEWS
Cambridge engineering PhD research presented at Parliament
Cambridge researchers showcase robots at GLOBALWIIN 2024
Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans
‘Palaeo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

2023
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING NEWS
The Worshipful Company of Engineers’ visit to the Department of Engineering
It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball
AzoRobotics
Robot Chef Cooks Up a Storm By Watching YouTube
BBC NEWS
University of Cambridge’s robotic chef learns cooking recipes
HELLO RAYO/GREATEST HITS RADIO
Robot chef learns how to make recipes by copying video demos
FALSTAFF (International Gourmet Magazine)
Cambridge robot learns recipes but gourmet credentials still to be earned
THE ENGINEER MAGAZINE
Robot chef mimics simple recipes from food videos
NEWS.AM, ARMENIA
“Cyber cook”: Scientists in Cambridge create a robot that learns to cook by watching videos
NEWS WISE, USA
Robot ‘chef’ learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
An AI Robot Learns Recipes by Watching Human Chefs

2022

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING NEWS
Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt
Remote control of floating objects – solving a complex fluid dynamics problem with AI
Tokyo TECH and Cambridge: research exchange and collaboration
Cambridge robotics research on show at Robot Lab Live 2022
BBC News, United Kingdom
Cambridge University trains robot to ‘taste’ as it cooks eggs
The CATERER
Robot chef learns to ‘taste as you go’
CBS NEWS, USA
Engineers develop robot that can taste salt
GCC BUSINESS NEWS, UAE
This Robot chef is learning to cook & taste just like a human
The GUARDIAN
R2-D-Chew: robot chef imitates human eating process to create tastier food
New Food Magazine, USA
Forget RoboCop, it’s all about robot chef
RAR UK Automation
Robot chef trained to “taste food as it goes”

2021

Department of Engineering News
Join our Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab at Robot Lab Live

2020

Department of Engineering News
Join us at the 2020 Cambridge Science Festival
Introducing RoboPatient – a soft robotics approach to training doctors
Study into the dynamics of free-falling paper shapes could aid the design of bio-inspired robotics

2019

Department of Engineering News
The £2 billion vegetable and the agricultural future of the East
Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

2015

Department of Engineering News
On the origin of (robot) species