The next IPAB Workshop will take place 24/09/2020 via Blackboard Collaborate - John Pisokas and Theodoros Stouraitis will be speaking.
Please refer to your emails for the link.
We would like to welcome (Chris) Xiaoxuan Lu as a supervisor for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics! He is the new Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests broadly lie in mobile autonomy, perception and sensing (MAPS), with the focus on spatial AI under visual degradation, fog Robotics and edge IoT, RF and multi-modal sensor fusion; secure and privacy-aware autonomous systems.
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 17/09/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate. Please refer to your emails for the link.
Speaker: Daniel Angelov
Title: Composing Diverse Policies for Robot Control
On September 22nd the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and The Alan Turing Institute will be hosting exciting talk with guest Marc Raibert from Boston Dynamics. You can register here.
Speakers:
Turing Lecture: Building dynamic robots
Marc Raibert - Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar - Programme Co-Director for Artificial Intelligence, and Turing Fellow
The ability to clearly, confidently and credibly talk about who you are and what you do is an essential skill in your personal and professional life, whether that is face to face with one person or many, or online using video.
This online pitch masterclass will cover:
This is a mandatory training course for the 2020 cohort.
Please note that this online training will be held over 2 days as follows:
Monday 9th Nov 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00-16.00 hours
Tuesday 10th Nov 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00-16.00 hours
Please note that you will need a desktop, laptop or similar to be able to participate fully in online discussions and group work held in virtual breakout rooms. Mobile devices can limit the functionality of the interactions so they should only be used where no other option is available.
The 2019 cohort have organised a virtual pub quiz to welcome the new cohort of CDT students, all RAS CDT students are invited!
It will take place on Thursday 17th September at 6pm. Please refer to your emails for the Discord link.
The prize for the quiz is knowing that your team is better than everyone else!
We are pleased to announce the arrival of Talos, a high performance humanoid robot standing at 1.75m tall as the newest addition to the robotics research lab at the University of Edinburgh.
Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri or Google's assistant are able to converse with humans using language. This talk will review the underlying technology and discuss their limitations and potentials.
Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google’s assistant are able to converse with humans using language. The underlying technology – often referred to as spoken dialogue systems – has experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.