External Advisory Board Meeting
Date:
Mon, 07/10/2019 - 16:00 to Tue, 08/10/2019 - 17:45
Location:
Room 1.35, Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh
Annual CDT conference
Date:
Fri, 01/10/2021 - 10:00 to 17:30
**Please note that this event is by invitation only**
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics seventh annual conference will take place online on October 1st 2021
Programme
10:00 Conference start with introduction by directors, Prof. Helen Hastie and Prof. Michael Mistry. Media: Zoom.
10.20 Keynote speaker Amit Pandey . Media: Zoom for talk and Q&A.
CDT in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS) receives renewed funding
Submitted by h.hastie on Tue, 05/02/2019 - 14:10
Robotics research in Scotland is set to further expand with the announcement of a £18m funding boost.
Gateway Event - Modelling Visibility: How can geographic data support more natural human-computer interfaces?
Date:
Fri, 22/02/2019 - 14:15 to 15:30
Location:
Robotarium seminar room, Heriot Watt University
Speaker:
Dr Phil Bartie
Heriot-Watt University
Abstract: Situated human-computer interactions rely on a shared understanding of the surrounding environment. For example an instruction to an autonomous vehicle to drop you off at a particular building entrance on campus relies on your mental model of geographic space correlating to a digital representation of that space stored in the navigation system.
Executive meeting
Date:
Thu, 28/02/2019 - 10:00 to Fri, 01/03/2019 - 11:45
Location:
Appleton Tower room 7.14
Gateway Event - From Uncertain Perception to Robust Action: Some Adventures with Autonomous Driving
Date:
Fri, 15/02/2019 - 15:00 to 16:30
Location:
IT 4.31/4.33 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy
University of Edinburgh / FiveAI
Title: From Uncertain Perception to Robust Action: Some Adventures with Autonomous Driving
Abstract:
Centre collaborates in ground breaking study to test new therapies for Parkinson's disease
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Mon, 14/01/2019 - 16:41A ground-breaking study is to test new therapies for Parkinson’s disease on robots – replacing the need for animal testing. Over the next year, academics from Heriot-Watt University and the International Institute of Neuroscience in Brazil will join forces on the pioneering study: Neurorobotics Model of Parkinson’s disease. Currently, scientists use rats in experiments to find new treatments but in this study, data already recorded from other animals in Brazil and robots in UK will be used instead.
RAS CDT to host third student CDT conference
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Wed, 09/01/2019 - 16:07The RAS CDT is delighted to be hosting the third student annual conference held jointly with the Robotics CDTs in Bristol (FARSCOPE), Edinburgh (RAS) and Oxford (AIMS). The conference will take place at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th June. More information about the conference can be found here https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/cdt-student-conference-3rd-4th-june-2019
Gateway Event - Burns Supper
Date:
Fri, 25/01/2019 - 17:00 to 19:30
Location:
Room G.07, Informatics Forum
Gateway to Burns is a Gateway event with a twist! We hope that as many students and staff are able to join this one-off Burns Supper that will follow on from Professor Aisha Holloway's presentation on Friday 25th January in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh.
Journal Club
Date:
Thu, 10/01/2019 - 18:00 to Fri, 11/01/2019 - 18:45
Location:
rpoom 4.31/33 Informatics Forum
Ross will be presenting:
- Morphological Evolution of Physical Robots through Model-Free Phenotype Development. L. Brodbeck, S. Hauser, and F Iida. (2015)
And Jack will be presenting:
- Planning for cars that coordinate with people: leveraging effects on human actions for planning and active information gathering over human internal state. D. Sadigh, et al. (2018)