News and events

Read the latest news, discover more about our research, and keep up-to-date with events and conferences that we have planned and will be attending.

Blog post: The liability of robotic and autonomous systems

The main point of law is the following: Who is liable when an autonomous system causes injury or death to a person or damage to property?

University of York's Department of Computer Science to host international conference

40th edition of SAFECOMP to be held at the University of York with a special theme of Safe human-robotic and autonomous system (RAS) interaction

New research paper considers how to improve the transparency and accountability of COVID-19 models

The new paper examines the modelling assumptions that have been informing the COVID-19 policy-making processes and to what extent these assumptions and their limitations are communicated to decision-makers.

Blog post: A tale of two research communities

The term “AI safety” means different things to different people. Alongside the general community of AI and ML researchers and engineers, there are two different research communities working on AI safety.

The Conversation article - Autonomous cars: five reasons they still aren’t on our roads

Elon Musk thinks his company Tesla will have fully autonomous cars ready by the end of 2020. Challenges remain - Professor John McDermid gives us five of the key obstacles.

Join the team - various roles available

Do you want to play a pivotal role in ensuring autonomous systems are introduced and adopted safely across the world?