Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of York. Winfield co-founded the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and his research is focussed on understanding the nature and limits of robot intelligence. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, and an associate editor of Evolutionary Robotics. Winfield is passionate about communicating research and ideas in science, engineering and technology; he led UK wide EPSRC public engagement project Walking with Robots, awarded the 2010 Royal Academy