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Nicole Robinson | 2018 Speaker

How intelligent machines will advance civilisation

Dr Nicole Robinson is a Robotics Researcher at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision on the Humanoid Robotics project. Nicole is currently working on using humanoid robots in a set of clinical trials and experimental studies. Her research interests involve replicating human behaviours into agents and robotic systems to help achieve a task or goal. She has previously conducted research in the health and wellbeing field, including the translation of a psychotherapeutic program to be delivered by a humanoid robot.

In her free time, Nicole is the host and producer of an artificial intelligence and robotics podcast, which interviews research and industry experts from all around the world to find out how they are using artificial intelligence and robotics to help solve world problems.