The OHMC project: two years of accomplishment

This year the OHMC workshop started with an invitation-only event that was attended by OHMC existing and potential industry collaborators. Students and academics demonstrated robotic experiments and provided extensive reports on their experimental work:

OHMC workshop demonstrations presented at the 3^rd OHMC event:

• Robot Kitchen (Gregorz Sochacki, Agriforwards CDT/BIRL)

• Potatobot/Farmbot (Elijah Almanzor, Agriforwards CDT/BIRL)

• Agri-automation tent (William Rohde, Agriforwards CDT)

• Foodly Hymanoid Robot (Kieran Gilday, BIRL)

• Embedding station (Elijah Almanzor & Ryman Hashem, BIRL)

• Sensorised soft skin (David Hardman, BIRL)

• Illuminating dementia with hd-dot (Emilia Srinivasan & Emilia Butters, Physics)

• Soft Finger Project (Arsen, Chapa, BIRL/Engineering)

• Control for robotic Surgery (Fulvio Forni & Daniel Larby, Engineering)

• Robopatient (Ryman Hashem, BIRL)

• Robotic piano playing (Huijiang Wang, BIRL/SMART)

In the main part of the event, Cambridge academics gave talks on new developments in the fields of AI and Robotics. Among prsenters were George Mallinaris (Prince Philip Professor of Technology, UoC), Elizabeth Soilloux (Associate Professor & Consultant Pathologist, UoC), Anne Korhonen (Professor of Natural Language Processing, UoC) and Tamar Makin (Honorary Professor Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences, UoC) with assistance of Nida Abbassi (PhD student, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

The OHMC Management is grateful for keen interest that has been shown to the OHMC research and hope in-departmental collaborations will continue bringing new ideas and

Since the OHMC was open in September 2020, are six projects currently run in collaboration with other CU departments and organisations:

• Agri-station for automation and growth optimization (G's Growers/Agriforwatds CDT)

• Eye tracking for 3D holographic displays (Engineering)

• Low-cost Intelligent Mixed Reality System for Responsive Human-Machine Interactions (IfM/Cyber-Human Lab)

• Personalized Emotional caRe uSing human-rObot iNterAction (PERSONA) (Department of Computer Science and Technology)

• Wearable optical monitoring of brain function in healthy adults and people at risk of dementia (Department of Physic/Engineering)

•  Automated Crop Growth Tracking (Engineering)

• Human subjectivity-based metrics for robot handover task (Department of Psychology)

• Hands-free gesture and vision control forremote operation of adrone using 3D computer-generated holography (Engineering)