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Centre Director to co-lead government initiative to scale-up robotics sector

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 14:12

Professor David Lane, CBE FREng FRSE, Director of the Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, has been named co-chair of the Robotics Growth Partnership alongside Paul Clarke CBE, Chief Technology Officer at the online shopping and robotics giant, Ocado.

The ministerial appointments were announced recently by the Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Chris Skidmore MP, during a series of speeches emphasising the Government's commitment to realising investment of 2.4% of GDP in research and development by 2027.

CDT students host joint Robotics CDT conference

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Wed, 10/07/2019 - 12:16

Students from the Centre successfully hosted the third annual student conference held jointly with the EPSRC CDTs in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford on the 3rd and 4th June. Fellow students from Bristol and Oxford arrived in Edinburgh on the Sunday evening and had the opportunity to join on a bus tour of the beautiful city.

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Thu, 04/07/2019 - 14:34

RAS CDT student, Christian Rauch attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Montreal, Canada from 20th -24th May.

ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference, attracting 4145 participants from 71 different countries.

Christian presented his recent work on articulated tracking and took the opportunity to discuss his research with others working in the same area.

NASA Valkyrie interactive experience installed at Bayes Centre

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Wed, 19/06/2019 - 10:45

An interactive touchscreen display has been installed in the Bayes Centre foyer, providing further information about the NASA Valkyrie.

Three researchers working with the Valkyrie humanoid robot

Prof. David Lane appointed to AI Council

Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Wed, 29/05/2019 - 14:02

Prof. David Lane joins leaders in business and data privacy organisations, as well as from academia, in his new role on the UK Government’s AI Council.

This is an important time in the evolution and application of this most disruptive and groundbreaking of technologies.

Prof. David Lane

The newly appointed members will help put in place the right skills, ethics and data so the UK can make the most of AI technologies.

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.

CDT in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS) receives renewed funding

Submitted by h.hastie on Tue, 05/02/2019 - 14:10

Robotics research in Scotland is set to further expand with the announcement of a £18m funding boost.

Centre collaborates in ground breaking study to test new therapies for Parkinson's disease

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Mon, 14/01/2019 - 16:41

A ground-breaking study is to test new therapies for Parkinson’s disease on robots – replacing the need for animal testing. Over the next year, academics from Heriot-Watt University and the International Institute of Neuroscience in Brazil will join forces on the pioneering study: Neurorobotics Model of Parkinson’s disease. Currently, scientists use rats in experiments to find new treatments but in this study, data already recorded from other animals in Brazil and robots in UK will be used instead.