Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)
The centre builds on the world-leading and international excellence in the field of artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics and neural computation

The centre builds on the world-leading and international excellence performance in the field of computer science, cognitive robotics and neural computation.
Staff at the centre coordinate large UK and FP7/H2020 projects (e.g. COGNOVO, APRIL, L2TOR) and collaborate with the major international centres in cognitive robotics and computational neuroscience.
The Centre is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s priority area on Robotics and Autonomous Systems, together with the Autonomous Marine System group.
Given the Centre’s highly interdisciplinary approach, it collaborates with researchers in the School of Psychology and the Marine Institute.
Research at the CRNS strategically focuses on the following research areas, aligned to international and UK priorities:
The CRNS includes an international group of academics, postdoc and research students from a wide range of disciplines. Meet our staff.
CRNS is excited to launch CRNS@Webinar, our first series of virtual research workshops for the 2020 Autumn semester. In this series you will have the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research topics delivered by some of the world's top-cited research scholars from the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.
The workshops will also highlight some of the women scientists working in STEM. Researchers from the European Space Agency supported by our academic staff in collaboration with members of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University, Australia will discuss the importance of Machine Leaning for studying sex differences in susceptibility to ionized radiation in automated systematic review.
This series of virtual research workshops is also supported by Professor Alessandro De Luca, professor of Robotics and Automatic Control at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “A. Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome. He has kindly made links to a series of virtual seminars available. These include video lectures and PDF material on fault diagnosis, reaction of robot collisions for collision detection and robot reaction, safe coexistence and physical collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction.
Please visit our webpage to find out more about this series of virtual research workshops, the speakers, the research topics and the important dates.
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems University of Plymouth, Reynolds Building, PL4 8AA, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom