Sajida Bhamjee

Coventry University, University of Warwick

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Sajida Bhamjee’s research sits at the fascinating intersection of robotics, cognitive science, and cultural evolution, exploring how both humans and robots perceive, interpret, and transmit behaviours. Her most influential work, “Children’s Perception and Interpretation of Robots and Robot Behaviour” (2011, 8 citations), investigates how young people anthropomorphise robots and make sense of their actions—a foundational contribution to human-robot interaction that informs design for educational and social robotics. Bhamjee also made early, ambitious strides toward understanding collective machine behaviour in her poster abstract “First Steps Toward Artificial Culture in Robot Societies” (2011, 3 citations). This work, part of the multi-disciplinary project ‘The Emergence of Artificial Culture in Robot Societies,’ outlines initial experiments into how protocultural behaviours—simple traditions—might arise among robot groups through imitation and social learning, without central programming. Though early in her career, Bhamjee’s research bridges developmental psychology and artificial life, offering a unique lens on how culture could emerge in non-human societies. Her work continues to inspire students and researchers interested in the social dimensions of intelligent systems.