The Adaptive Systems Research Centre at the University of Hertfordshire is largely concerned with the development of socially integrated and socially adapative robotic systems. Some of the centre’s projects include; the EU funded Feelix Growing project working on the design of socially integrated robots, The Iromec project (Interactive Robotic Mediators as Companions) working on the development of robotic toys designed to augment the play of children with learning or developmental problems, The I-Talk project – developing robots with the potential to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning with the emphasis on the integration and transfer of action and language knowledge between robots and between humans and robots, The ‘Living with Robots and Interactive Companions’ collaboration on companion robots and the Evolvability research network exploring evolvability in biological and software systems.