Inclusive Design (Update on RixTalk Audible Ruler) Last week, the audible ruler was given a brief test by one of our... 27 January 2026
RixBot Update Work has been ongoing for a new version of the RixBot throughout December, mostly looking for ways of improving... 5 January 2026
Robot Programming Made Simple (Update) The robot buggy was tested at Rix Inclusive Research to see how well it worked (in principle) and although... 24 November 2025
Robot Programming made Simple We are developing a simple, programmable robot buggy designed to make robotics accessible to a much wider audience. The... 13 November 2025
RixTalk Update The new version (technically the next iteration, as it is far from ‘finished’) of the talking ruler is almost... 22 July 2025
Wheelchair users Experience VR We ran our first VR workshop specifically for wheelchair users this week, giving two of our co-researchers a taste... 21 July 2025
New RixTalk Talking Ruler After creating the initial prototype of the talking ruler and considering some of the early feedback given to me... 15 July 2025
Hackathon25 at Rix Inclusive Research The next Hackathon (Hackathon25) at Rix Inclusive Research will take place on June 18th 2025, and already the planning... 28 May 2025
What are NFC Tags? NFC (Near Field Communication) Tags are tiny stickers, cards, and keychains that can store and send information to a... 13 March 2025
Speech Recognition Engine for Controlling RixBot Finally, I managed to find some spare time today to connect up the audio system to a Raspberry Pi... 26 February 2025
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inclusive? Workshop at Rix (12/02/2025) This is the second Generative AI workshop that we have hosted aimed at finding out more about the accessibility... 18 February 2025
Talking Ruler (AKA RixTalk) At a recent visit to the Google Accessibility Discovery Centre with colleagues from Rix Inclusive Research, amongst the many... 3 February 2025