Over the last couple of years, we have seen AI-driven humanoid robots trialled in factories around the world. Before long, humanoids are going to appear in public workplaces and, eventually, in our homes and daily lives. But the jump from controlled lab and factory environments into the dynamic and unpredictable real-world presents complex challenges. Dr Carl Strathearn, Napier University, designs and builds autonomous humanoid robots with AI that appear, function and interact like humans.

Perthshire Society of Natural Science is one of the oldest Scientific Societies in Scotland and encourages interest in the natural World by means of lectures, meetings and field outings.

The annual Curious Minds Lecture series, presented by Culture Perth & Kinross and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science is themed around “Contemporary Science in Scotland” and, over past seasons, speakers have covered a stimulating array of scientific topics from dinosaur fossils in Skye, through the human genome to black holes, gravitational waves and the science of consciousness.