27.08.2025

SAINTS at TAROS 2025

Between 20 and 22 August 2025, some of our SAINTS CDT postgraduate researchers attended the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) conference, hosted at the University of York.

The UK-hosted international conference on Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) aims to present and encourage discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications.

SAINTS’ Prenika Anand had the opportunity to present her work from her first year of studying a PhD at TAROS 2025. In a special session for Safety of Autonomous Systems chaired by Senior Research Fellow in Safety of Autonomy and AI, Philippa Ryan, she presented a talk and an academic poster on Psychological Safety of AI in Assisted Living. Prenika also won the D-RisQ Award for best poster on Safety for Autonomous Systems and Robotics.

Prenika said “To talk as a health professional to an auditorium full of roboticists was exciting! I equally enjoyed listening to talks by my PhD colleagues Shaun F., also a SAINTS PGR, and Nawshin Mannan Proma (Doctoral Researcher & Graduate Teaching Assistant, Institute for Safe Autonomy) and Rabia Karakaya (PhD researcher at the University of York, specializing in human robot interaction in autonomous mobile robots in public spaces.

The questions and supportive feedback from the audience, and winning a prize for the Best Poster in this category was just the motivation needed after months of synthesising evidence from literature.”