**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.
Robotics research in Scotland is set to further expand with the announcement of a £18m funding boost.
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.
Abstract:
A 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.
The 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 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.
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)
Robots have been successful in the applications which require speed, power and precision, but very limited where soft and delicate interactions are necessary. In this context the use of soft functional materials opened the door to a range of new types of machines, soft robots, that can not only interact with soft objects in the environment but also make robots themselves into soft structures for better adaptability in different situations.