Public Engagement & Outreach
Open days, research demonstrations, media contributions and invited communication connecting robotics and AI with wider audiences.
Engagement highlights
Service event highlights
Dandan Zhang's BMVA keynote connects multimodal perception, physical interaction and adaptive robotics with dependable real-world AI. Includes the symposium programme and links to recorded talks.
In Imperial Magazine's Stargazing feature, Dandan Zhang discusses how AI could support scientific discovery, and why data efficiency, explainability and dependable deployment still matter.
Imperial I-X Open Days, Imperial Lates, Imperial Policy Fellowships and University of Bristol open days.
End of event highlights
Open days and demonstrations
Imperial I-X Open Days · Co-Organiser (2024–2025)
Engagement reaching more than 500 visitors across the recorded open-day activities.
Research demonstrations
Imperial Lates and Imperial Policy Fellowships (2024).
University of Bristol open days · Contributor (2021–2023).
University of Bristol open days
The original Bristol archive brings together the 2022 EMAT Open Day photographs, visitor demonstrations and robotics displays. The images show robot vision, tactile exploration, tactile recognition, service robotics and a robotics concert. Original student and supervisor credits are retained where recorded.
1. Dandan Zhang presenting robotics research at the Bristol EMAT Open Day.
2. Visitors exploring the Bristol EMAT open-day demonstrations.
3. Robot vision and 3D reconstruction.
4. Tactile robotic pushing.
5. Robotics concert. Enyang Feng and Shipeng Xiong (MSc Robotics). Supervisors: Nathan Lepora and Dandan Zhang.
6. Tactile sensing demonstration equipment.
7. Tactile recognition. Wen Fan (Research Associate and EMAT PhD). Supervisors: Dandan Zhang, Weiru Liu and Nathan Lepora.
8. Robotics concert demonstration display.
Imperial I-X Open Day and robotics demonstrations
The first I-X Open Day took place on 3 July 2024 at White City. Dandan Zhang co-organised the event, contributed to the AGI panel and showcased robotics research with the Multi-Scale Embodied Intelligence Lab. The programme combined research discussions, lab demonstrations and poster presentations.
The photograph below comes from the existing 2024 group archive and documents a robotics demonstration. The official I-X report provides the Open Day programme and event account.
1. Haptic interfaces and robotics demonstration from the 2024 group archive.
Original I-X Open Day summary artwork.
Public communication
Public communication development
Imperial As One Media Academy · Completed training (2026), covering media engagement, podcasting, public engagement, public affairs and policy.
The Bristol gallery uses original website photographs. The Imperial demonstration photograph comes from the existing group archive, and the I-X artwork is from the official event report. The BMVA card uses the symposium's original artwork.
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