Friday evening lecture by Dr Carl Strathearn on the challenges of deploying AI-driven humanoid robots in the real world, part of the Curious Minds series.
Dr Carl Strathearn is coming to the Soutar Theatre in the AK Bell Library on Friday 20 November, for a talk on the challenges of getting AI-driven humanoid robots out of the lab and into the real world. Strathearn is with Napier University, and the session runs for about 90 minutes.
It's part of Curious Minds, which is back for its 11th season of Friday evening lectures. This year's theme is 'Contemporary Science in Scotland', and the series is run by the Perthshire Society of Natural Science in partnership with Culture Perth & Kinross. Each year they bring in some of Scotland's top academics and researchers to explain their work to a general audience. The society asks them not to 'dumb it down' but to steer clear of excessive jargon or impenetrable equations, and that's been the formula for the series so far.
This season's line-up is a wide one. It ranges from the story of birds and the science behind your cup of coffee to the latest advances in humanoid robotics and the primordial soup from which we came. The society itself is one of the oldest scientific societies in Scotland, and its annual programme has covered everything from dinosaur fossils in Skye and the human genome to black holes, gravitational waves and the science of consciousness.
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Strathearn's talk starts at 19:30 at the Soutar Theatre, inside the AK Bell Library at 2-8 York Place, Perth, PH2 8EP. Tickets are £4.50 for PSNS members and £8 for non-members, which includes a £1 booking fee.
Date
Friday, 20 November 2026
19:30
Location
Soutar Theatre, AK Bell LibraryPrice
Paid
Recommended Age
+14 years
