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.

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.

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).