Centre Academics named as Ones to Watch 2019

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Tue, 18/12/2018 - 11:31

Professor Verena Rieser and Professor Oliver Lemon have been named as People to Watch in 2019 in the Digital List in FutureScot, a journal that reports on the digital technology sector in Scotland. The article recognises the team’s research work in the area of AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing and acknowledges that this has enabled Heriot-Watt University to be a top three finalist in the Amazon Alexa Challenge for two years in a row.

Green light for National Robotarium

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Tue, 18/12/2018 - 11:14

The creation of the UK’s first National Robotarium reached a significant milestone on 17th December after its business case was approved by the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal Joint Committee.

The multimillion pound hub, to be built at Heriot-Watt University in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, will be the UK’s leading innovation hub for robotics and autonomous systems, delivering leading-edge research and support for business creation and growth, as well as data skills.

The next great leap forward? Combining robots with the Internet of Things

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Mon, 17/12/2018 - 11:09

Centre Academic Mauro Dragone has authored an article in The Conversation on the major opportunities that will be opened up by incorporating robots into the Internet of Things. 

The full article can be read here http://theconversation.com/the-next-great-leap-forward-combining-robots-with-the-internet-of-things-108307

Autonomous Systems Research Masterclasses

Date: 
Mon, 17/12/2018 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
Robotarium, HWU
Speaker: 
Various
Heriot-Watt University

The 2018 cohort of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Centre for Doctoral Training will be giving a series of Masterclasses on a variety of topics in machine learning, control, robot collaboration, perception, manipulation and more! Venue will be the ROBOTARIUM meeting room in EMB @HWU. 

Student journal club

Date: 
Thu, 29/11/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 30/11/2018 - 18:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum, rm 4.31/33.

Presenters at this Journal club are:

Iordanis Chatzinikolaidis - Control-Limited Differential Dynamic Programming. Y. Tassa, N. Mansard, and E. Todorov (2014).

Chris McGreavy - RelaxedIK: Real-time Synthesis of Accurate and Feasible Robot Arm Motion. D. Rakita, B. Mutlu, and M. Gleicher (2018).

 

 

 

SICSA Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems

Date: 
Fri, 16/11/2018 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
G.03, Bayes Center at Edinburgh University
Speaker: 
Various

With this workshop, we will bring together interested students, academics and industrial participants from the field of Cyber Physical Systems. Overall the workshop will discuss how CPS is best described by the bringing together of a variety of techniques and concerns. In particular, we will have invited speakers who will talk about human interfaces, surgical applications of autonomy and modern perceptual systems including the use of machine learning. These will anchor poster sessions from other SICSA participants and set the scene for a multi-disciplinary discussion.