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Robotics and artificial intelligence inquiry

Inquiry

The Science and Technology Committee undertook an inquiry into robotics and artificial intelligence.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) is one of the 'Eight Great Technologies' identified by the UK Government in 2012. A national strategy for RAS innovation (PDF 172 MB) from a 'RAS Special Interest Group' was published by Innovate UK in 2014.

The Government responded to that strategy in March 2015 (PDF 405 KB) and agreed to establish a RAS Leadership Council to oversee its execution. The Special Interest Group also published The UK Landscape for Robotics and Autonomous Systems in 2015. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council launched an UK-RAS network, also in 2015.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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5th Report - Robotics and artificial intelligence
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5th Special Report - Robotics and artificial intelligence: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2016–17
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5th Special Report - Robotics and artificial intelligence: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2016–17
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Correspondence

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Letter from Alan Turing Institute on a ‘Commission on Artificial Intelligence’, 21 October 2016
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Oral evidence transcripts

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24 May 2016
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Witnesses Dr Rob Buckingham, Director, RACE, Professor Stephen Muggleton, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Professor Nick Jennings, Royal Society Working Group on Machine Learning, and Professor Philip Nelson, Chair, Research Councils UK; Richard Moyes, Managing Partner, Article 36, and Dr Owen Cotton-Barratt, Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute
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28 June 2016
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Witnesses Professor Rose Luckin, Chair of Learning with Digital Technologies, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, Angus Knowles-Cutler, Vice Chairman and London Office Senior Partner, Deloitte, Dr Michael Osborne, Dyson Associate Professor in Machine Learning, University of Oxford, Paul Mason, Director of Emerging and Enabling Technologies, Innovate UKDave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer, Microsoft, Mike Wilson, General Industry Sales Manager, ABB Robotics
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Written evidence

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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (ROB0076)
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Innovate UK (ROB0075)
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Dr Owen Cotton-Barrett (ROB0074)
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