Dr Esyin Chew is the Director of EUREKA Robotics Centre with 80+ service and healthcare robots, one of the 11 specialist robotics centres in the UK http://www.race.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DIT-Robotics-Proposition.pdf (pp.11) for research facilities and one of the 14 long-term care robotics research and design takes place across the UK (pp.22). She is a Reader in Robotics and EdTech, recognised by UK & Welsh Parliament as “Expert” for AI and COVID consultation, a keynote speaker in many international conferences and seminars , including the Festival of Higher Education 2019 at University of Buckingham for Artificial Intelligence: Robotics, the curriculum and inclusion (https://vimeo.com/345303465) and the largest 2023 Robotics and Automation Conference in the UK, titled “A thoughtful integration of Robotics and automation in healthcare: a global case”.

Esyin has published over 140 project outputs, including quality international journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, media & press coverage and 5 national policy impact publications. She has led millions pound of government and industrial funded projects in the UK, EU, Australia and Malaysia, including the recent success of a thoughtful integration over 14 cutting-edge Healthcare Robots as a Service (HRaaS) in hospitals and care home (project website: https://eurekahraas.wixsite.com/hraas) as companion with machine learning capability (https://peerj.com/articles/cs-674), funded by Welsh Government, as well as the global PIE for Women in STEAM-H programme, funded by British Council and the Alan Turing Institute. The work attracted the visit of Secretary of State for Wales to Eureka Robotics.