The next IPAB Workshop will take place 03/12/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Michael Herrmann will be speaking. The link can be found in your emails.
Title: Explainability in Reinforcement Learning
Over 630 attendees logged in to watch the full interview between Marc Raibert, Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, and to interactively take part in the live online polls and Q&A session.
Boston Dynamics are leaders in some of the world’s most advanced robots including Spot, Atlas and Handle. The company specialises in robots which can reach inaccessible areas and are able to move more quickly to get the work done faster.
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched six new research projects or, “nodes” aimed at tackling challenges to the development of autonomous systems. These are part of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme which will undertake fundamental, creative and multidisciplinary research in various areas key to ensure autonomous systems can be built in a way society can trust and use.
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics has been awarded funding for two nodes:
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 12/11/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Bob Fisher. The link can be found in your emails.
Our annual conference took place online this year, and we found it to be just as engaging and diverse as ever. We were joined on Zoom by four keynote speakers, and about 100 students, staff and industry representatives.
We kicked off with Keynote speaker Professor Metin Sitti from Max Planck institute who did a talk on soft-bodied small scale robotics that featured memorable robots modelled after baby jellyfish.
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 05/11/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Oguzhan Cebe, Hanz Cuevas Velasquez will be speaking.
You will find the link in your emails.
Speaker: Oguzhan Cebe
Title: Online Dynamic Trajectory Optimization and Control for a Quadruped Robot
Professor Helen Hastie and Professor Yvan Petillot have been appointed as joint academic leads of the National Robotarium.
The next IPAB workshop will take place on October 29th at 1pm. The weblink can be found in the original email.