19.10.2017 inkha is part of robots exhibition at manchester museum of science and industry https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/whats-on/robots
11.02.2017 inkha appears in the intelligence explosion guardian film https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2017/feb/20/intelligence-explosion-stop-robot-evil-drama-video
11.02.2017 inkha techradar article as part of coverage of robots exhibition at london science museum http://www.techradar.com/news/10-robots-that-are-changing-the-world
8.02.2017 inkha is part of robots exhibition at london science museum http://sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/robots
7.02.2017 guardian preview film of backstage at london science museum's robots exhibition https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2017/feb/07/science-museum-robots-exhibition-backstage
20.10.2014 inkha decommissioned at kings college reception
3.12.2013 inkha 10th birthday party held at kings college reception
29.05.2013 inkha appeared at animatronic masterclass at university college london institute of making http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/detail/member-event-animatronics
21.01.2011 inkha robotic receptionist at kings college fully refurbished after 7 years continous running and restored to 'as new' condition http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2003&news_id=202
07.06.2006 to 11.06.2006 inkha and steve appeared at cheltenham science festival 2006 www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk
21.06.2005 to 30.09.2005 inkha appeared at the save the robots exhibition at the ark, dublin, ireland. for more information visit http://www.robots.ie/
08.06.2005 to 12.06.2005 inkha appeared at cheltenham science festival 2005 www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk
13.04.2005 inkha appeared at the creative robotics research network symposium at the university of hertfordshire, college lane campus, hatfield, england crrn.open.ac.uk/aisb
22.03.2005 to 31.03.2005 inkha appeared in the 2005 faraday lecure tour of the far east visiting hong kong, malaysia and singapore www.iee.org/events/lectrs/faraday/2005/asia-venues.cfm
17.02.2005 inkha featured on the xchange television program on children's bbc www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/xchange/
15.02.2005 inkha visited the intelligent autonomous systems lab at university of western england www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/
20.01.2005 to 15.03.2005 inkha appeared in the 2005 faraday lecure at venues all over uk www.iee.org/events/lectrs/faraday/2005/
10.11.2004 inkha appeared at a creative robotics symposium at the open university in milton keynes, england stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=523&s=1&schedule=478
24.07.04 inkha appeared on fantastico television program in brazil. film available at http://fantastico.globo.com type inkha into the search box which is labelled busca
23.06.04 inkha ltd incorporated in order to develop an educational version of inkha
17.06.04 article about inkha published in issue 79 of realrobots magazine http://www.realrobots.co.uk
09.06.04 to 13.06.04 inkha appeared at the cheltenham science festival in gloucestershire, united kingdom http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk/frame_festindex.cfm?FEST=SCIENCE
22.04.04 article about inkha published in issue 74 of realrobots magazine http://www.realrobots.co.uk
15.04.04 film of inkha released by research-tv http://www.research-tv.com then search for inkha
07.04.04 inkha visited hara labs at tokyo university of science http://www.sut.ac.jp/edocs/edu/kouga/research.html
05.04.04 inkha visited waseda university robotics lab in tokyo http://www.phys.waseda.ac.jp/shalab/index.html
12.03.04 to 21.03.04 inkha installation at kings college was part of national science week http://www.the-ba.net/nsw
24.02.04 inkha appeared at launch of simfonec business plan challenge competition at the cass business school in london uk http://www.simfonec.co.uk/challenge
16.02.04 inkha article in the pittsburgh post gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04050/274887.stm
16.02.04 inkha appeared at a humanoid robotics discussion event at the dana centre in south kensington london uk http://www.danacentre.org.uk
01.02.04 inkha article in geolino magazine http://www.geolino.de
22.01.04 inkha article in the times newspaper http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-972966,00.html
03.12.03 inkha2 installed as a permanent robotic receptionist in the strand entrance of kings college london uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk
25.11.03inkha article in nature magazine http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-1.html
01.10.03 to 30.11.03 creation of inhka2 using volz industrial servo motors, sprung neck assembly, advanced medonis servo controllers and protouch touch screen
07.07.03inkha displayed at bbc tomorrow's world roadshow http://www.twroadshow.co.uk/british.asp
14.04.03 inkha featured on the bbc world service go digital radio program and webcast news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2780097.stm
11.03.03 to 14.03.03 temporary installation of inkha as robotic receptionist in the foyer of kings college london www.kcl.ac.uk in the strand london wc2 uk as part of national science week www.the-ba.net
10.03.03 inkha appeared on blue peter as part of national science week coverage
01.02.03 attendance at passionate machines conference, university of westminster, london, uk www.carte.org.uk
01.12.02
hsl/hsb-based colour recognition
speech: colour-based verbal behaviours (fashion, astrology)
robustness work
childproofing the interface, waking hours
enhanced logging of activity (hue, speech, wake-ups)
01.11.02
relay box installed to allow for autonomy
installed for a month on a test site in london
taken to japan for presentation to japanese robotics company
copus grant applied for
replacement of 2 cirrus for hitec servos (eyelid, eye yaw)
replacement of 2 hitec hs225bb for digital hitec 5245mg servo (topneck)
14.10.02 eyelids added
01.10.02
inkha demonstrated to shadow robotics
improvements to speech capabilities:
all speech in a database
verbal behaviours (obnoxious, charming, tetchy)
wav file support
01.09.02
inkha completed
msc dissertation presented to supervisor dr
kaspar althoefer at kcl
01.07.02
neck assembly designed and built
sensor and control systems developed
01.03.02
eye assembly purchased from texas (androidworld.com)
initial experiments and programming carried out
01.12.01 initial discussions between mat and mrplong at kcl
www.ee.kcl.ac.uk/mecheng/mam/engart.html
