Beyond Human What does it mean to call ourselves human, and what happens when we move beyond human capacity? Think robotics, AI and an unexplored future for our species. You are here Home Faculty of Social Sciences Research with impact Inclusive Society Beyond Human Joining The Baby Club - designing children’s television with Professor Jackie Marsh How do you design a children’s programme that’s also for adults? That’s the challenge for new BBC television programme The Baby Club, which aims to develop adults’ skills as much as those for toddlers. AI and the robotic restructuring of cities in the covid-19 pandemic How has the covid-19 pandemic broadened the landscape of robotic infrastructure and what could this mean for future urban restructuring? The Canine Care project The Canine Care Project explored the experiences of disabled young people who have assistance dogs. The project collaborated with Canine Partners, a registered charity that transforms the lives of disabled people through partnering them with assistance dogs. Where are the women in AI? When it comes to making chatbots and humanoid robots, women appear regularly. They have names like Alexa and Siri – chatbots gendered as women, but designed by male dominated teams. Human futures Research in the iHuman research insitute considers how we imagine what the future could be, as something co-created between science and society in the here and now.
