Open Assisted Living Lab seeks solutions to care sector's COVID-19 crisis

Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Wed, 01/07/2020 - 09:22

Dr Mauro Dragone, Assistant Professor from Heriot-Watt University is one of the scientists launching the open and remote access living lab to research how to create how to create affordable and socially acceptable solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL).

This project is funded by EPSRC and will run for 10 months, ending in April 2021.

More information on the project can be found here.

IPAB Workshop: The "contact planning problem" for legged robots: A cardinality minimisation approach

Date: 
Thu, 25/06/2020 - 13:00 to Fri, 26/06/2020 - 13:45
Location: 
Online
Speaker: 
Steve Tonneau
University of Edinburgh

The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 25/06/2020 at 13:00 on Blackboard Collaborate. Steve Tonneau will be speaking.

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c536aea2beb949859f76f450cd3466eb

Title: The "contact planning problem" for legged robots: A cardinality minimisation approach

Abstract: In order to move, legged animals and robots create contacts with their environment.

SICSA AI Theme online seminar

Date: 
Thu, 04/06/2020 - 16:00 to Fri, 05/06/2020 - 16:45
Location: 
On-line
Speaker: 
Dr. Margaret Mitchell
Google AI

We are delighted to announce the first SICSA AI Theme online seminar with Dr. Margaret Mitchell from Google AI. 

 

To register, please do so by this Eventbrite page

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sicsa-ai-theme-seminar-tickets-106913459034

 

Speaker: Dr. Margaret Mitchell (Google AI)

 

Date/Time: Thursday June 4th, 16:00 (UK time, BST)