News archive for May 2019 | Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Student wins prestigious RSE scholarship

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Mon, 27/05/2019 - 14:52

RAS CDT student Derek Chun has been awarded the John Moyes Lessells Travel Scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to carry out research in Japan with Prof. Koh Hosoda of Hosoda Lab, Osaka University. This is an amazing achievement as the scholarship is open to all branches of engineering in Scotland and Derek has suceeded in making his application stand out from all others.

RAS CDT student wins top prize in Student Research Competition

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Thu, 23/05/2019 - 16:11

Congratulations to Edinburgh Centre for Robotics student Siobhan Duncan (2016 cohort) who was awarded first place in the ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Student Research Competition held in Cyprus in April for her work titled “Bringing Stigmergy into the Real World”

Professor Stefan Williams from University of Sydney delivers seminar at the Centre

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Tue, 14/05/2019 - 11:17

Professor Stefan Willliams, Head of School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney visited Heriot-Watt University on Monday 13th May and delivered a seminar on Applications in Marine Imaging.