Gateway Event: Georg Wichert from Siemens

Date: 
Thu, 10/10/2019 - 15:15 to 16:30
Location: 
Seminar Room, Robotarium, Earl Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Georg Wichert
Head of Research Group, Robotics Autonomous Systems & Control, Siemens AG

Abstract: Classical automation has reached its limits. Further gains in productivity require new way of thinking automation. The talk discusses the need for new automation paradigms and shows how the future of automation, standing on the shoulders of latest advances in AI of a Deep Digitalization,  will enable us to build hyper-flexible, yet fully automated production systems.

Can Virtual Agents Learn How to Have a Conversation?

Date: 
Fri, 20/09/2019 - 12:00 to Sat, 21/09/2019 - 13:45
Location: 
Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th Floor, Main Library, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Prof. Verena Rieser

Intelligent virtual agents frequently engage the user in conversation. The underlying technology - often referred to as spoken dialogue systems - have experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.

 

CISA Seminar - An approach for facilitating thermal design through the use of intelligent systems for Industry 4.0

Date: 
Mon, 16/09/2019 - 14:00 to Tue, 17/09/2019 - 14:45
Location: 
IF G.03, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Alexandru Tudor George
Politehnica University of Bucharest

On Monday the 16th Sept at 2pm in G.03 there will be a CISA Seminar by Tudor George Alexandru who will be speaking on 'An approach for facilitating thermal design through the use of intelligent systems for Industry 4.0'.

Can Virtual Agents Learn how to Have a Conversation

Date: 
Fri, 20/09/2019 - 12:00 to Sat, 21/09/2019 - 13:45
Location: 
University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Prof Verena Rieser

Intelligent virtual agents frequently engage the user in conversation. The underlying technology - often referred to as spoken dialogue systems - have experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.

 

UK Government Minister for Scotland visits the Centre

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Thu, 15/08/2019 - 08:25

UK Government Minister Robin Walker was given a tour of Heriot-Watt University’s world leading robotics facilities as he discussed progress on the creation of a National Robotarium.

The proposed facility, which is supported with £21 million from the UK Government, will be a world-class hub, developing and utilising the next generation of robot technology which has the potential to transform lives, industry and our economy.

Modeling Narrative Intelligence to Support Adaptive Virtual Environments

Date: 
Fri, 16/08/2019 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location: 
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
University of Utah

SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow Dr Rogelio Cardona-Rivera from the University of Utah will be giving a talk entitled "Modeling Narrative Intelligence to Support Adaptive Virtual Environments" on Friday, 16 August at 11:00am in the Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University. Details of his talk are below.

ABSTRACT

Tutorial on "Cellular-Automata(CA) Models in Autonomous Robotics: Development and Trends"

Date: 
Wed, 07/08/2019 - 13:00 to Thu, 08/08/2019 - 13:45
Location: 
Heriot-Watt University, Robotarium Seminar Room
Speaker: 
Prof Gina de Oliveira

This is a two-part tutorial.

Part I: "CA Concepts and Application Examples" (Wednesday at 1pm)

Part II: "CA Applied to Autonomous Robotics" (Thursday 8th August at 1pm, HWU, room to be confirmed)

Bio-inspired Models Applied to Engineering and Computing

Date: 
Wed, 07/08/2019 - 10:30 to 11:30
Location: 
Heriot-Watt University, Room EM1.83
Speaker: 
Prof Gina de Oliveira

Prof Oliveira is Head of the Bio-inspired Computation Lab (UFU). She works at the School of Computer Science, at the Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU), Brazil. Previously, she worked at Mackenzie Presbyterian University also in Brazil. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA-Brazil) in 1999. She spent a sabbatical year at the Robotics Lab at HWU (Edinburgh, UK) in 2013. Her main research interests are the joint application of cellular automata, evolutionary computation and other bio-inspired models in the solution of applied problems.