• Question: What would be the first thing you would do if you won the money?

    Asked by alanamcmaster8 to Alan on 11 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
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      Alan Winfield answered on 11 Mar 2011:

      Hi Alan – I think the very first thing I would do is jump up and down making a fool of myself while shouting “Yay” or something like that. Then the very next thing would probably be tweet everyone to share the news. But I think that what you *really* want to know is how I would spend the money:-)

      Well, as I said in my profile, I have become interested recently in something called community robotics. This means making simple low-cost robot gadgets that ordinary people can use to make their lives better. Later this year I will have some visitors from America, from the Create Lab in Pittsburgh, who have done some amazing community robotics projects and if I was to win I’m a Scientist I would use the money to try out some of their ideas here in Bristol. Here is the Create Lab web pages so you can see what I mean: http://createlab.ri.cmu.edu/

      Do please let me know which of the Create Lab projects you like the best.

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