{"id":129,"date":"2014-12-31T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2024-03-01T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:41:53","slug":"chris-middleton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Chris Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stanley Qubit<\/strong>\u00a0and the other robots on this site are owned by\u00a0Chris Middleton<\/a>. Chris is\u00a0one of the UK’s leading business and IT\u00a0journalists, and has become one of our best-known commentators on robotics and AI.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 2019, Chris produced a detailed policy report on robotics and AI for Innovate UK, on the back of an expert mission to the US alongside some of the UK’s leading academics and entrepreneurs in this field.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Chris has appeared many times on radio and TV \u2013 on BBC1, ITN, Radio 2, Radio 5Live, Talk Radio, and BBC local stations \u2013 being interviewed live on air about robotics and AI. He has also been quoted in the national press, including The Sun and Evening Standard newspapers.<\/p>\n

Chris is an experienced public speaker, presenter, and conference chair\/host, who can incorporate real robots into presentations on robotics, AI, automation, and the Internet of Things.<\/p>\n

Chris is consulting editor, and former editor, of one of the UK’s leading tech titles,\u00a0Computing; contributing editor to diginomica<\/a>\u00a0(one million unique visitors); contributing editor to TransformIndustry and TransformFinance; former editor of InternetofBusiness.com; and\u00a0former editor of other top business\/IT titles, including Computer Business Review and Professional Outsourcing (now known as Intelligent Sourcing).<\/p>\n

Over the years, Chris has written for The Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Times, the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World, Computing, Computer Weekly, Citywire, Publishing News, PC World, i-CIO, and many others.<\/p>\n

\"\"During\u00a0the Noughties,\u00a0Chris was the author of a number of books, including Creating Digital Music and Sound<\/em>; The Complete Guide to Digital Audio<\/em>, Instant Graphics<\/em>, and (uncredited) First Steps in Digital Design<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0was contributor to \/ co-editor of\u00a0The Big Read Book of Books<\/em> (a tie-in with the BBC TV series), and editor of (and prime contributor to)\u00a0Ultimate Robot<\/em> (DK, pictured). He has edited more than 50 other books, on design, photography, video, and movie special effects. He is currently writing a book on robotics and AI for publication in autumn 2024.<\/p>\n

COLLECTOR\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maria (Metropolis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stanley Qubit<\/strong> \u2013 named in honour of Stanley Kubrick, of course \u2013 is part of a real robot collection that includes several robots designed by Tomotaka Takahashi, a Hanson Robotics Einstein robot, and rare toys, figures, and models, including movie icons, such as Maria, (pictured<\/em>), and HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Go to Chris’\u00a0website<\/a> for more information on all of the above.<\/p>\n

LINKS<\/strong>
\nchrismiddleton.company<\/a>
\nChris’ Pinterest robot gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris is one of the UK’s leading business and IT journalists. You can find out all about him at his personal website: chrismiddleton.company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":95,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}