Public Engagement

University seminars, public demonstrations and community initiatives connect the group's robotics research with wider audiences. This overview brings together Dandan Zhang's selected outreach and leadership activities from 2024–2026.

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.

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.

The IROS 2026 workshop explored how physical experience can improve robot learning and world models. Invited talks, research presentations and a challenge addressed demonstrations, visuo-tactile learning, planning and evaluation.

The ECCV 2026 workshop brought together research on world models, robotics and safe deployment. Dandan Zhang co-organised the event and joined the panel on moving from synthesis towards real-world use.

A Hamlyn Symposium workshop on untethered micro- and nanorobotics for healthcare, covering actuation, navigation, control and AI-assisted analysis. Includes the programme, learning outcomes and organising team.

PHASE 2022 brought academia and industry together in Bristol to examine autonomous systems with humans in or on the loop, across human factors, architecture, ethics, trust and robotics.

This Hamlyn Symposium workshop examined soft and hybrid robots for minimally invasive surgery, focusing on dexterity, surgeon–robot–tissue interaction and reduced tissue trauma.

A Bristol Robotics Laboratory workshop on human–robot interaction in unstructured and changing environments, bringing together tactile robotics, teleoperation and AI researchers to discuss current challenges and future directions.