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Jubilee campus, administrative, professional and managerial (apm).

Operations Officer (fixed term) Closing Date: 23 May 2024 Salary: £23,736 to £26,608 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Programme Manager (Fixed term, Part time) Closing Date: 19 May 2024 Salary: £57,696 to £70,897 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Project Manager Closing Date: 15 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Senior Administrator Closing Date: 15 May 2024 Salary: £27,584 to £33,804 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Systems & Data Manager Closing Date: 14 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Operations and Facilities

Craftsperson – Multi Trade Electrical Closing Date: 22 May 2024 Salary: £28,152 to £34,500 per annum (pro rata if applicable), post will initially be offered at the minimum salary point with progression to the higher salary point achieved through an annual incremental pay rise.

Research and Teaching (R&T)

Transitional/Assistant/Associate Professor in Cyber Security Closing Date: 30 May 2024 Salary: £40,521 to £70,897 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on level of position offered, skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Associate/Fellow in Laser Beam Welding Analysis and Characterisation (Fixed term) Closing Date: 28 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £45,585 per annum, (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Associate/Fellow in Organic Chemistry (fixed term) Closing Date: 22 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £33,966 per annum, (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 21 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £45,585 per annum, (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Assistant Professor in Science Education Closing Date: 14 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Kings Meadow Campus

Director of International Student Recruitment Closing Date: 06 June 2024 Salary: £70,922 to £82,219 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

International Administrative Assistant Closing Date: 02 June 2024 Salary: £23,736 to £26,608 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

HR Business Partner for Change Closing Date: 24 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Academic Opportunities at the University of Nottingham in China.

Language Tutor in Japanese Closing Date: 29 May 2024 Salary: Salary will be within the range of RMB 262,512 to RMB 322,693 per annum depending on skills and experience (salary progression beyond this is subject to performance)

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics/Statistics Closing Date: 26 May 2024 Salary: Salary will be within the range of RMB 620,374 to RMB 762,597 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience (salary progression beyond this is subject to performance)

Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (T&L) Closing Date: 26 May 2024 Salary: Salary will be within the range of 620374 RMB to 762597 RMB per annum depending on skills and experience (salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance)

Assistant Professor in Architectural Design Closing Date: 25 May 2024 Salary: 439794 RMB to 579126 RMB per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Teaching Fellow in International Studies Closing Date: 24 May 2024 Salary: Salary will be within the range of 345676 RMB to 471120 RMB per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Preliminary Year Tutor in Digital Literacy for Business Closing Date: 23 May 2024 Salary: Salary will be within the range of RMB 345,676– RMB 471,120per annum depending on skills and experience, salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor in Life Science and Healthcare Closing Date: 20 May 2024 Salary: per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor in Green Chemicals and Energy Closing Date: 15 May 2024 Salary: per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Intelligent Manufacturing Closing Date: 15 May 2024 Salary: per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Administrative, Professional and Managerial Opportunities at the University of Nottingham in China.

Director of Development and Alumni Relations Closing Date: 08 June 2024 Salary: 620374 RMB to 762597 RMB per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

University Counsellor Salary: Competitive Salary

Sutton Bonington

Research Manager (fixed term) Closing Date: 03 June 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Senior Research Administrator (fixed term) Closing Date: 03 June 2024 Salary: £28,152 to £34,500 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Food Innovation Technologist (Fixed term) Closing Date: 24 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 05 June 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £37,099 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience.

Research Associate/Fellow (fixed term) Closing Date: 28 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £39,347 per annum, (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 24 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £38,205 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience.

Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 21 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £38,205 per annum (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD).

Clinical Assistant/Associate Professor in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology Closing Date: 15 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £70,897 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (Maximum salary for Clinical Assistant £56021, Minimum salary for Clinical Associate £57696) . Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Technical (TS)

Senior Technical Manager (Internal only) Closing Date: 06 June 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Counsellor and Psychological Supporter (Part time) Closing Date: 31 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Digital Learning Administrator Closing Date: 23 May 2024 Salary: £23,736 to £26,608 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Clinical Academic

Clinical Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine (fixed term) Closing Date: 11 June 2024 Salary: £38,619 to £65,955 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience.

Clinical Research Fellow in Hepatology (Fixed term) Closing Date: 30 May 2024 Salary: £32,398 to £55,329 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience.

Other Recruitment Opportunities

ESPRC Doctoral Prizes 2024 Closing Date: 07 June 2024

Associate Professor - Director of Clinical Skills and Simulation (Teaching & Learning) (Part-time) Closing Date: 29 May 2024 Salary: £57,696 to £70,897 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Interim Dean and Head of School - Health Sciences (Internal only) Closing Date: 27 May 2024 Salary: Leadership Allowance

Head of School Chemistry Closing Date: 14 May 2024 Salary: £70,922 to £82,219 plus Leadership Allowance. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Studentships

PhD Project: 3D printing next-generation actuators for soft robots and devices Closing Date: 15 September 2024

PhD Project: 3D-Printed Micro-Robots for Medical Applications Closing Date: 15 September 2024

PhD Project: Functional 3D/4D Printing of Responsive Structures Closing Date: 15 September 2024

PhD project: Functional Structural Colour Devices through 3D Printing Closing Date: 15 September 2024

PhD Studentship: synthesis of molecular energy materials for lithium-sulfur batteries Closing Date: 11 September 2024

PhD Studentship in Electromagnetic Compatibility for 25kV Rail Systems, funded by Network Rail Closing Date: 07 August 2024

PhD Opportunities in Mechanical and Aerospace Systems (MAS) Research Group Closing Date: 31 July 2024

PhD Studentship: Joint modelling of latent trajectories for dynamic prediction of competing outcomes in patients with liver disease Closing Date: 31 July 2024

PhD Studentship: Extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localisation for inspection in fusion power plants Closing Date: 30 July 2024

PhD scholarship: Developing a Miniaturised End-effector for Repair in Confined Spaces (UK Atomic Energy Authority sponsored) Closing Date: 25 July 2024

PhD opportunity in flow crystallisation with in situ X-Ray diffraction. Closing Date: 19 July 2024

PhD Studentship: Concrete4Change and the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry Closing Date: 15 July 2024

Fully Funded Coating PhD Studentship with Rolls Royce Thermally Sprayed Coatings to inhibit bondcoat – Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) Interactions Closing Date: 03 July 2024

PhD Studentship: Novel subsurface Raman microscopy technologies to enable the development of next-generation drug and implant therapies Closing Date: 03 July 2024

PhD Studentship: Rolls Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon the manufacturing process Closing Date: 30 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Computer vision and robot control for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines Closing Date: 30 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Design and simulation of stiffness-adjustable robotic systems for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines Closing Date: 30 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Laser Beam Processing of Aerospace Materials Closing Date: 30 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing Closing Date: 30 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Next generation bio-instructive materials for healthcare applications Closing Date: 28 June 2024

PhD Studentship – High Speed Railway Degradation Modelling Closing Date: 11 June 2024

PhD Project – High Speed Railway Degradation Modelling Closing Date: 07 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Cancer cell diagnostics using biomechanics and artificial intelligence Closing Date: 07 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Super-optical resolution imaging using a phonon probe microscope Closing Date: 07 June 2024

3-year PhD studentship: Functional Devices and Structures through 3D Multi-material Printing Scale-Up Closing Date: 01 June 2024

PhD Studentship: Ultra-thin opto-acoustic fibre optic probe for cancer characterisation. Closing Date: 01 June 2024

3-year PhD studentship: 3D printing of low dimensional materials for sensing Closing Date: 31 May 2024

PhD Studentship - Turning up the heat on soil carbon: Quantifying carbon dynamics and climate resilience of agave production in Mexico Closing Date: 31 May 2024

PhD Studentship: Assessing the impact of deep shafts in urban areas Closing Date: 31 May 2024

PhD Studentship: Autonomous Bioactivity Searching Closing Date: 31 May 2024

PhD studentship: Using next generation nitrogen sources for producing spring malting barley and its impact on yield and grain malt quality Closing Date: 31 May 2024

The Universities for Nottingham and the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry - PhD Scholarships available Closing Date: 31 May 2024

PhD Studentship: Contribution of permafrost thaw to Arctic methane emissions from peatland systems Closing Date: 24 May 2024

PhD Studentship: Carbon dynamics of the Pantanal, the World’s largest wetland Closing Date: 17 May 2024

PhD Studentship: High Impact sulphur flavour compounds in hop products Closing Date: 17 May 2024

Senior Technician - Research (Fixed term - Part time) Closing Date: 22 May 2024 Salary: £28,152 to £34,500 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

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Disability Advisor (Fixed-term, part-time) Closing Date: 29 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Building Surveyor (Fixed term) Closing Date: 28 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Project Operations Manager - Decision Maker Panel (Fixed term) Closing Date: 23 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

In-House Employment Lawyer Closing Date: 18 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Centre Manager -Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (nmRC) - fixed term Closing Date: 17 May 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Faculty Education and Student Experience Senior Administrator (Fixed term) Closing Date: 17 May 2024 Salary: £28,152 to £34,500 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Apprenticeships

Apprentice Technician – Carpentry & Joinery (Fixed term) Closing Date: 30 May 2024 Salary: £22,162 per annum

Apprentice Technician – Mechanical (Fixed term) Closing Date: 30 May 2024 Salary: £23,256 per annum

Assistant Professor, Criminology Closing Date: 11 June 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Fellow (multiple posts, fixed term) Closing Date: 10 June 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Assistant Professor (multiple posts, permanent and fixed term) Closing Date: 06 June 2024 Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Medical Statistician (Fixed term) Closing Date: 06 June 2024 Salary: Research & Teaching level 4a- £30,487- £33,966 Research & Teaching level 4- £33,966- £45,585

Research Fellow in Quantum Simulation of topological phases and many-body dynamics with Rydberg interactions (Fixed term) Closing Date: 06 June 2024 Salary: £33,348 to £44,414 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Professor of Sociology and Head of School Closing Date: 02 June 2024 Salary: £70,922 to £82,219

Teaching Associate (Fixed term, Part time) Closing Date: 31 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 28 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £39,347 per annum (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD).

Research Fellow (fixed term, multiple posts) Closing Date: 21 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £38,205 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 17 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £37,099 per annum (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD).

Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow in Biological Chemistry (fixed term) Closing Date: 16 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £37,099 per annum, depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Research Assistant (Fixed term, part time) Closing Date: 16 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £31,396 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience.

Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term) Closing Date: 16 May 2024 Salary: £30,487 to £45,585 per annum (pro rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience (minimum £33966 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Rights Lab Research Fellow in Business Practices and Lead in Social Accounting (fixed term) Closing Date: 14 May 2024 Salary: £33,966 to £45,585 per annum depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

PhD Studentship: Design and fabrication of multi-metal components for nuclear fusion applications Closing Date: 31 May 2024

Laboratory Technician BDI Core Team Closing Date: 18 May 2024 Salary: £22,162 to £22,522 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

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College of Arts and Sciences Instrument Machine Shop staff (from left) Thomas Brachmann, Kevin Cullinan and Gary Nottingham plan, design, fabricate and repair the precision devices UB scientists need to conduct their research. Photo: Douglas Levere

By JACKIE HAUSLER

Published May 13, 2024

As members of an R1 research institution, UB’s faculty, staff and students are determined to solve the world’s most complex problems. But who’s behind the curtain making the mechanics of these research discoveries and innovations possible?

Meet Thomas Brachmann, Kevin Cullinan and Gary Nottingham, the team in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Instrument Machine Shop. With more than 90 years of combined machining experience, these staff members tirelessly plan, design, fabricate and repair precision devices from start to finish.

They are the quintessential “jack of all trades” using the shop’s lathes, mills, saws, welding equipment and a complete woodworking shop on the first floor of Fronczak Hall to get their jobs done. And when the tools they need for a specific task don’t exist, they make them. Whether it’s custom fabrication of a thread for a machine, or outsmarting the computerized settings to optimize the outcome, they can do it all. 

“Every single day the work is rewarding, and we never ever stop learning,” says Cullinan, instructional support technician in the Instrument Machine Shop. “When faculty come into the shop and explain their complex research to us, we work together to solve the other half — the mechanics of what they want — to help their vision come to life and build things accordingly.”

The team’s modesty competes with its workmanship. Not only are they extraordinary mechanics and technicians, but they are also expert communicators. The team has the experience to know the right questions to ask, be acute listeners and communicate plans effectively so everyone is on the same page with the extraordinarily precise details required.

“When we feel like we’ve asked a lot of questions, then we ask more and interject with our knowledge on the process,” says Nottingham, instructional support technician.

These details are vital to their success, as they are always working on a wide range of projects. They have built everything from lab and laser tables, to optic adapters, to recirculating flumes, including one that is 35-feet long.

Kevin Cullinan, instructional support technician, with the 35-foot recirculating flume constructed in the CAS Instrument Machine Shop. Photo: Douglas Levere

Yes, that’s right. A 35-foot recirculating flume that can perfectly mimic the environment of a small stream, recirculating water and sediment. The flume, housed in Wilkenson Quad in the Ellicott Complex, is managed by Sean Bennett, associate dean for social sciences in the college and professor in the Department of Geography.

“As an experimental geomorphologist, hydraulic flumes are the backbone of my entire research program,” says Bennett. Since arriving at UB, he has studied a variety of topics with flumes constructed, modified and maintained by Cullinan in the Instrument Machine Shop. The flumes help him investigate erosion and rill development on a soil-mantled landscape; the effect of large woody debris on streambank stability and local scour; fish movement and behavior in complex turbulent flows; the hydrodynamics of impinging jets and soil erosion; the effect of aquatic mussels on open channel flow; fish swimming capability and fatigue; mechanics of sediment suspension in a zero-mean shear flow; and the effect of vegetation on near-bank flow in rivers, among other topics. 

Bigger projects like these not only greatly benefit faculty and their research efforts, but many students utilize the facilities as well. “Dozens of students have used the flumes for educational purposes and nearly all of the research was supported by external grants,” says Bennett. “The machine shop is an unrivaled resource for any faculty member or student whose work involves anything related to materials,” he adds.

While the influx of requests at the Instrument Machine Shop involves builds for nationally funded research and scientific study, it also supports creativity in the college in unique ways.

The team in the machine shop also designed and built these tanks used by art professor Paul Vanouse in his artwork, "Labor." Photo: Douglas Levere

For faculty members like Paul Vanouse, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art and director of Coalesce, the shop is vital to his artistry. His bio-media artwork often employs molecular biology techniques to challenge entrenched notions of individual, racial and national identity. 

“I’ve been working with the college’s Instrument Machine Shop since I arrived at UB about 25 years ago,” says Vanouse. “I was told about their work by a representative from Fisher Scientific when I was working on my first large-scale bio-art project, “The Relative Velocity Inscription Device.” Gary Nottingham helped me realize a giant DNA gel electrophoresis rig out of plexiglass, which was the centerpiece of the project,” he adds.

Vanouse’s artwork, “Labor,” used bacteria to recreate the smell of human sweat inside 25-gallon industrial fermenters, also made by the Instrument Machine Shop. “With ‘Labor’ Kevin Cullinan and Tom Gruenauer (since retired) suggested key hardware, materials and design solutions — from how to fabricate concentric rings with minimal material to the perfect hardware connectors for the works aesthetic,” says Vanouse. In 2019, “Labor” was on exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and later received the “Golden Nica ,” the top prize from nearly 1,000 nominations and submissions at the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. 

“The CAS Instrument Machine Shop is a fantastic resource for anyone who fabricates their own parts or devices, whether you are an artist, physicist, biologist, geologist, engineer or some combination of these,” says Vanouse.

Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, associate dean for research and professor in the Department of Physics, agrees.

“When I arrived in 2016, the first major task was to install gas recovery pipelines in my laboratory spaces,” says Ganapathy. “This is not a trivial task, and the team designed the recovery lines and flow meters connecting to the central helium liquefaction facility and then installed the pipelines successfully, which was critical for the successful operation of cryogenic instruments in my research group.

“The machine shop staff are not there only to complete the tasks requested, they are extremely collaborative in the projects from the designing stages all the way to fabrication and provide technical support and valuable inputs based on their expertise and experience,” added Ganapathy. “Often this has resulted in a product better than what was originally planned.”

Faculty and graduate students within the college interested in working with the Instrument Machine Shop can complete the online form to schedule a consultation . To learn more about the CAS Instrument Machine Shop, visit the website .

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Cats purrfectly demonstrate what it takes to trust robots

Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human interaction.

Cat Royale is a unique collaboration between Computer Scientists from the University of Nottingham and artists at Blast Theory who worked together to create a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. The installation was launched in 2023 at the World Science Festival in Brisbane, Australia and has been touring since, it has just won a Webby award for its creative experience.

The research paper, “ Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans ” has just been presented at the annual Computer-Human Conference (CHI’24) where it won best paper. It outlines how designing the technology and its interactions is not sufficient, but that it is equally important to consider the design of the `world' in which the technology operates. The research also highlights the necessity of human involvement in areas such as breakdown recovery, animal welfare, and their role as audience.

Cat Royale centred around a robot arm offering activities to make the cats happier, these included dragging a ‘mouse’ toy along the floor, raising a feather ‘bird’ into the air, and even offering them treats to eat. The team then trained an AI to learn what games the cats liked best so that it could personalise their experiences.

“At first glance, the project is about designing a robot to enrich the lives of a family of cats by playing with them. “ commented Professor Steve Benford from the University of Nottingham who led the research, “Under the surface, however, it explores the question of what it takes to trust a robot to look after our loved ones and potentially ourselves.”

Working with Blast Theory to develop and then study Cat Royale, the research team gained important insights into the design of robots and its interactions with the cats. They had to design the robot to pick up toys, deploy them in ways that excited the cats, while it learned which games each cat liked. They also designed the entire world in which the cats and the robot lived, providing safe spaces for the cats to observe the robot and from which to sneak up on it, and decorating it so that the robot had the best chance of spotting the approaching cats.

The implication is designing robots involves interior design as well as engineering and AI. If you want to introduce robots into your home to look after your loved ones, then you will likely need to redesign your home.

Research workshops for Cat Royale were held at the Univeraity of Nottingham’s unique Cobotmaker Space where stakeholders were bought together to think about the design of the robot /welfare of cats.

As we learned through Cat Royale, creating a multispecies system—where cats, robots, and humans are all accounted for—takes more than just designing the robot. We had to ensure animal wellbeing at all times, while simultaneously ensuring that the interactive installation engaged the (human) audiences around the world. This involved consideration of many elements, including the design of the enclosure, the robot and its underlying systems, the various roles of the humans-in-the-loop, and, of course, the selection of the cats. Eike Schneiders, Transitional Assistant Professor in the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham

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More information is available from Professor Steve Benford on [email protected]

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