Our Vision

To enable the development of socially beneficial autonomous systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice by the public, government, and industry.

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TAS Project Team Shortlisted for IET Award
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TAS Events

12 Mar
AI & Robotics Research Awards

The  AI & Robotics Research Awards aim to celebrate the extraordinary achievements…

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20 Nov
AIR24 – UKRI AI and Robotics Accelerator

Discover the Future of AI and Robotics Join us to experience innovative…

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3 Oct
Risk assessment and trust in socio-technical AI-systems

The TAS hub will be running a conference session on: “risk assessment…

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Current TAS Research Projects

TARICS

Trustworthy Accessible Robots for Inclusive Cultural experienceS TARICS aims to create an interactive cultural experience for museum visits…

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Empowering Future Care Workforces

Scoping Capabilities to Leverage Assistive Robotics through Co-Design This project aims to understand how health and social care…

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Reimagining TAS with Disabled…

This project brings together Disabled Young People (DYP), social and computer science researchers and school and industry partners.…

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Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems…

Even if Recommender Systems (RS) are intended to be consumer-centric, they tend to exhibit inherent biases in the…

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DAISY

Diagnostic AI System for Robot-Assisted A&E Triage. This project aims to prototype a robot-assisted A&E triage solution for…

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Virtually There

Investigating the effect of data sonification (data display using sound) on user trust, workload, stress and task performance…

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AgriTrust

Trust Assurance in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Agriculture Farms of Future

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Intersectional Approaches to Design…

Exploring how intersectional approaches can inform the design and deployment of TAS toward the creation of an inclusive,…

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Communicating liability in Autonomous…

Examining how liability is perceived and communicated between AVs’ drivers, and 3rd-party insurers, and aims to develop integrated…

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Co-Design of Context-Aware Trustworthy…

Exploring people's perceptions of data protection, privacy, and security when using autonomous audio systems.

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The Citizen Carbon Budget

Investigating the technical feasibility and public acceptability and trustworthiness of an autonomous system-driven carbon budget. 

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XHS: eXplainable Human-swarm Systems

Exploring how to enable a human-swarm teaming system to assess the criticality of a given situation and decide…

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Understanding Internet and Technology…

- Impact on engagement with cognitive training Investigating the barriers and facilitators to engaging with autonomous digital systems…

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Privacy Preserving Detection of…

Generating a typology of the misinformation strategies and associated linguistic constructs that people encounter online, as well as…

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Safety and desirability criteria…

Investigating the control of aerial drones as these are employed on construction sites for monitoring or transportation tasks.

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Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and…

This project seeks to develop a socio-technical framework in collaboration with the Information Commissioner’s Office and Connected Places…

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Methodological perspectives on the ethics…

Convening a workshop series with the Governance and Functionality Nodes, to explore theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding…

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TAS ART: Augmented Robotic…

Exploring the potential of Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART) to improve on trustworthiness, inclusion/accessibility and independence afforded to remote…

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Digital Twins for Human-Assistive…

Investigating approaches for developing and using digital twins which incorporate co-dependent and co-evolved models representing patients and assistive…

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Preserving Marine Life in…

Developing a framework focused on the deployment of verified, explainable Deep Neural Networks that will be the underpinning…

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TAS RRI Responsible Research…

Helping the researchers in the TAS Hub and network by promoting and supporting a range of responsible research…

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Leap of Faith

Exploring the conditions under which a human subject can be persuaded to trust an autonomous search and rescue…

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Verifiably Human-Centric Robot Assisted…

An integrated approach for a human-centric, robot-assisted dressing, with self-verifying capabilities to ensure user safety during collaborative HRI.​

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Verifiably Safe and Trusted…

VESTAS intends to provide a roadmap on challenges and technical requirements to be addressed for the design and…

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TAS Benchmarks Library and…

Formulating a taxonomy and developing an accompanying online library from which researchers can reference use cases - by domain, and…

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Imaging predictors of Oesophageal…

The Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) multidisciplinary team (MDT) makes critical treatment decisions in every oesophageal cancer (OC) patient’s journey…

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Foundations of a Trustworthiness…

A roadmap for creation of an open trustworthiness risk assessment community as part of the TAS Hub

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Open-Source Interaction Interface for…

Motivated by RRI, this project aims at providing an open-source platform that is suitable for experimentation with a…

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Principles for Building Fair…

Systems that autonomously detect fraud in retail returns are increasingly being used and are controversial. In this project,…

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Digital Forensics Platform

This project will design, implement and test an open-source modular digital forensics platform. The unique qualities will be…

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Mapping Contracts and Licenses…

Pretrained models for creating AI images from text prompts and even text-to-video are being hailed as inaugurating an…

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Critically Exploring Biometric AI…

The project begins by mapping the state of the art and different socio-technical and legal issues raised by…

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CHAPTERs – Cognitive HumAn…

CHAPTERs focuses on developing a testbed for user studies that involve humans and cobots, particularly in teleoperations scenarios.

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The TAS Nodes

Functionality Node

Exploring how to monitor, test, and regulate the way that autonomous systems learn and adapt. By measuring what’s…

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Resilience Node

Creating a toolbox for autonomous system designers that translates societal rules into mathematical models. This allows AS to…

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Security Node

Exploring the physical and digital security elements of autonomous systems, using world-class facilities to design and test the…

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Trust Node

Exploring trust in autonomous systems through the subjective lens of Psychology and Cognitive Science in a UK research…

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Governance and Regulation Node

Exploring how to make autonomous systems aware of- and respond to the changing regulations of the world they…

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Verifiability Node

Developing rigorous testing techniques to prove the trustworthiness of an autonomous system in unadopted environments and embed those…

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