Upcoming events

The Ingredients for Efficient Robot Learning and Exploration

Date: 
Thu, 20/03/2025 - 13:00
Location: 
Informatics Forum. G.07
Speaker: 
Rika Antonova
University of Cambridge

Abstract: In this talk, I will outline ingredients for enabling efficient robot learning. First, I will demonstrate how large vision-language models can enhance scene understanding and generalization, allowing robots to learn general rules from specific examples for handling everyday objects. Then, I will describe a policy learning method that leverages equivariance to significantly reduce the amount of training data needed for learning from human demonstrations. Moving beyond learning from demonstrations, we will explore how simulation can enable robots to learn autonomously.

UK Robotics Summer School 2025

Date: 
Mon, 02/06/2025 - 09:00 to Fri, 06/06/2025 - 17:00
Location: 
Postgraduate Centre (PG01) Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Multiple
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Welcome to the UK Robotics Summer School web pages. We are organising a Summer School to take place from 2 to 6 June 2025 in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.

Overview: This is a 5 day Summer School from June 2-6 2025, aimed at developing learning, engagement and knowledge exchange within the field of robotics. This school will offer a combination of lectures, tutorials, and industry presentations, focusing on cutting-edge topics in robotics.

Location: Postgraduate Centre (PG01) Heriot-Watt University.