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Centre Director to co-lead government initiative to scale-up robotics sector

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 14:12

Professor David Lane, CBE FREng FRSE, Director of the Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, has been named co-chair of the Robotics Growth Partnership alongside Paul Clarke CBE, Chief Technology Officer at the online shopping and robotics giant, Ocado.

The ministerial appointments were announced recently by the Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Chris Skidmore MP, during a series of speeches emphasising the Government's commitment to realising investment of 2.4% of GDP in research and development by 2027.

Executive Meeting

Date:

Wed, 11/09/2019 - 09:30 to 12:30

Location:

Robotarium Seminar Room, Earl Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt

Journal Club

Date:

Thu, 25/07/2019 - 18:00 to 19:30

Location:

Informatics Forum, Room 4.31/4.33

Chris will be presenting:

- Online Gait Transitions and Disturbance Recovery for legged Robots via the Feasible Impulse Set. C. Boussema, et al. (2019).

IPAB Workshop: Object Handling by Insects

Date:

Thu, 18/07/2019 - 12:45 to Fri, 19/07/2019 - 13:45

Location:

IF 4.31/33

Speaker:

Barbara Webb

University of Edinburgh

The next IPAB workshop will take place on 18/07/2019 at 12:45 in room 4.31/4.33 (pastries will be served). Barbara Webb will be speaking.

Title: Object handling by insects

CDT students host joint Robotics CDT conference

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Wed, 10/07/2019 - 12:16

Students from the Centre successfully hosted the third annual student conference held jointly with the EPSRC CDTs in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford on the 3rd and 4th June. Fellow students from Bristol and Oxford arrived in Edinburgh on the Sunday evening and had the opportunity to join on a bus tour of the beautiful city.

CISA Seminar - AI & Ethics: the view down under

Date:

Tue, 09/07/2019 - 14:00 to Wed, 10/07/2019 - 14:45

Location:

G.07, Informatics Forum

Speaker:

Prof. Toby Walsh

University of New South Wales

There will be a guest speaking at the CISA Seminar on the 9th July. Prof. Toby Walsh (Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence) will be speaking on 'AI & Ethics: the view down under' in G.07 at 2pm.

There will be refreshments after the Seminar in the café area. Please register to this event. Link below.

Abstract

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Thu, 04/07/2019 - 14:34

RAS CDT student, Christian Rauch attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Montreal, Canada from 20th -24th May.

ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference, attracting 4145 participants from 71 different countries.

Christian presented his recent work on articulated tracking and took the opportunity to discuss his research with others working in the same area.

New student induction - On-line

Date:

Thu, 10/09/2020 - 09:30 to 12:30

09.30 - 10.00 Introduction from Centre Directors

10.00 - 10.05 Introduction to Admin Team

10.05 - 10.30 Students introduce themselves, where they have studied previously, research interests etc

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30 Health and Safetry Briefing - Stuart McLean

11.30 - 12.00 Course choice and other admin matters

12.00 - 12.30 Student Wellbeing - Kenny Boyd

12.30 Induction close

All students with confirmed offers will be forwarded the link for the Teams Meeting no later than Monday 7th October.

Innovation Funding Student Updates

Date:

Tue, 09/07/2019 - 12:00 to Wed, 10/07/2019 - 12:45

Location:

AT7.14 University of Edinburgh

Journal Club

Date:

Thu, 27/06/2019 - 18:00 to 19:30

Location:

Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33

Ioannis will be presenting:

- A Structural Probe for Finding Syntax in Word Representations. J. Hewitt, and C. D. Manning. (2019).

and Francisco will be presenting:

- WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio. A. Oord, et al. (2016).