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 Zoe McGonigle 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.
RAS Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
Wed, 26/05/2021 - 10:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online
Intellectual Property Workshop for CDT1 students
Date:
Tue, 25/05/2021 - 14:00 to 16:00
Location:
On line
Speaker:
Edinburgh Innovations
University of Edinburgh
Michael Herrmann has arranged with Edinburgh Innovations to run the above workshop on Tuesday 25th May 2021 from 14.00-16.00 hours. The workshop will give an overview of IP and will focus on patenting relating to robotics and software.
This training is part of the CDT #Cauldron programme which aims to help students to develop relevant soft skills, and it is recommended that as many of you participate as possible by registering at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ip-training-tickets-152661395343
International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Mental Health - SOCIAL AI CDT - University of Glasgow
Date:
Tue, 08/06/2021 - 10:00 to 17:00
Location:
On-line
Speaker:
Please see agenda
Students are encouraged to attend this international workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health hosted by the SOCIAL AI CDT at the University of Glasgow.
Programme (More information about talks and speakers is available at socialcdt.org/aimh/)
10.00 - 11.00: The role of habits in health behaviour: Challenges and opportunities for digital interventions - Esther Papies - University of Glasgow
IPAB Workshop: Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong Li
Date:
Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong Li
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on Thursday, 22/04/2021 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong li will be speaking.
The link the the workshop can be found in the corresponding email.
Speaker: Wenbin Hu
Title: Learning Reactive Motor Skills of Reaching and Grasping via Deep Reinforcement Learning