Media

TV & Radio Interviews

ITV News – Live
(3 min segment)
ITV News West, Nov 2025
BBC News – Points West
(2 min segment)
BBC One News, Nov 2025
BBC Bristol Radio with Joe Simms
(10 min segment)
BBC Radio Breakfast Show, Nov 2025
BBC News – Points West
(2 min segment)
BBC One News, April 2022
BBC World Service – Science in Action
(10 min segment, full 30min episode)
BBC World Service Radio, April 2022
Times Radio with John Pienaar
(5 min segment)
Times Radio, Oct 2024
Secrets of Skin – Episode 6: Sensing
(5 min segment, full 30 min episode )
BBC Four TV Documentary, 2020
BBC World Service – News Hour
(5 min segment)
BBC World Service Radio, April 2022
BBC Radio – Paris Troy
(7 min segment)
BBC Radio Bristol, April 2022

In the News

Teen builds advanced robotic hand from Lego, BBC News, Nov 2025
Teenager builds advanced robot hand entirely from Lego pieces, New Scientist, Oct 2025
University makes robotic hand ‘breakthrough’, BBC News, Nov 2024
University of Bristol researchers advance tactile gripping, The Robot Report, Nov 2024
3D printed fingertips ‘like skin’ says University of Bristol, BBC News, April 2022
Robotic fingertip has human-like sense of touch, New Scientist, April 2022
Artificial fingertip gives robots nearly humanlike touch
Science
Scientists have created a 3D printed fingertip that can ‘feel’!
BBC Newsround
These robot fingertips mimic the nerve signals of a human hand
BBC Science Focus Magazine
Scientists create a 3D-printed hand that feels like human skin
Independent
Scientists create 3D-printed fingertip with human-like sense of touch
Sky News
3D-printed fingertip has sense of touch like human skin, study suggests
Evening Standard
Touchy subject: 3D-printed fingertip developed by British scientists can sense of touch and can ‘feel’ just like human skin
Daily Mail
Scientists create 3D-printed fingertip with human-like sense of touch
Daily Mirror
A 3D-printed fingertip ‘feels’ just like real human skin
Metro
3D Printed Skin Can Give Robotic Hands a Human Touch
The Daily Beast
This 3D-Printed Fingertip Helps Robots ‘Feel’ Objects Just Like Humans Do
Popular Mechanics
Sci-Fi Eye: Touching the future
The Engineer
Using deep learning to give robotic fingertips a sense of touch
TechXplore
Touch to transform with tactile robotics
Times Higher Education
TacTip wins soft robotics prize for Bristol Robotics Laboratory
The Engineer

Other articles:
→ TechXplore: Using deep learning to give robotic fingertips a sense of touch
→ TechXplore: Teaching AI agents to type on a Braille keyboard

Quotes and opinions:
→ Dazed Digital: How soon until Boston Dynamics Dogs roam the streets?
→ BBC News online: Puppy training a robotic dog points to the future
→ BBC News online: The robot assistant that can guess what you want
→ Guardian: Study sheds light on role of fingerprints in sense of touch


Exhibitions

Robots.
Science Museum, London

A blockbuster exhibition that explored the 500-year story of humanoid robots and the quest to understand what it means to be human.

My lab donated 3D-printed tactile sensors and a robot hand to a bespoke display.