RAS Executive Committee - Business Development
Date:
Tue, 24/08/2021 - 11:00 to 11:30
RAS Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
Tue, 24/08/2021 - 10:00 to 11:00
IPAB Workshop: Physics-informed machine learning: Opportunities and Challenges for Robotics
Date:
Thu, 24/06/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Subramanian Ramamoorthy
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 24/06/2021 at 1pm via Zoom - Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be speaking.
The Zoom link can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: Physics-informed machine learning: Opportunities and Challenges for Robotics
Speaker: Prof. Subramanian Ramamoorthy
IPAB Workshop: Reduced models for legged locomotion: applications to motion planning, model predictive control and collision avoidance
Date:
Thu, 10/06/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Speaker:
Steve Tonneau
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on Thursday 10th June 2021 at 1pm via Zoom - Steve Tonneau will be speaking.
The link and passcode can be found in the corresponding email.
Speaker: Steve Tonneau
Title: Reduced models for legged locomotion: applications to motion planning, model predictive control and collision avoidance
Abstract: The most challenging problems that we face when trying to make legged robots move are non-linear and high dimensional.
RAS Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
Wed, 07/07/2021 - 10:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online
Edinburgh Science Festival Event - Gendering AI: the Case of Conversational Assistants
Date:
Wed, 30/06/2021 - 17:30 to 18:15
Presented by Heriot-Watt University
With many voice assistants carrying out obedient, subservient roles it's thought that this – along with their design of female-gendered names, voices, and personas – can encourage abusive language toward them.
IPAB Workshop: Motion planning and control of legged locomotion
Date:
Thu, 27/05/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Speaker:
Guiyang Xin
The next IPAB workshop will take place on Thursday, 27th May at 13:00pm. Guiyang Xin will be speaking (join this talk via Blackboard Collaborate). The link can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: Motion planning and control of legged locomotion
First Health Robotics PhD workshop
Date:
Wed, 09/06/2021 - 13:00 to 15:45
Location:
On line
13:00-13:25 - George Kamaras - Data-Driven Modelling and Control of Deformable Materials
IPAB Workshop: Unstructured Interaction Control
Date:
Thu, 06/05/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Carlo Tiseo
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 06/05/2021 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Carlo Tiseo will be speaking.
The link can be found in the corresponding email.
Avatar XPrize Semi-finalists
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 03/05/2021 - 12:25Members of the Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals.
The Avater XPrize aims to create an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time. Dr Vladimir Ivan and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar are part of the AvatarX team led by Touchlab developing a mobile remotely operated robot with a unique capability of touch combined advanced shared control.