Executive Meeting
Date:
Fri, 03/08/2018 - 10:00 to Sat, 04/08/2018 - 11:45
Location:
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University
Team Edinbots take part in RoboCup 2018
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Tue, 03/07/2018 - 09:50
A team of students represented the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada from the 15th to the 22nd of June.
Team Edinbots competed in the Rescue Simulation League, a challenge where a group of robots navigate autonomously through an unknown disaster environment in search of victims. Edinbots competed against a team from Cambridge University in an exhilarating, fast-paced and tight final set of 4 matches, with Cambridge winning by an extremely narrow margin.
Year of Robotics' success at Herald Higher Education Awards 2018
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Fri, 29/06/2018 - 16:54Heriot-Watt University has just been awarded the Herald Higher Education Award for ‘Campaign of the Year’ for Year of Robotics 2017.
Journal Club Meeting
Date:
Thu, 28/06/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 29/06/2018 - 17:45
Location:
Rooms 4.31/4.33, Informatics Forum
There is a journal club meeting this Thursday at 6pm at the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
Martin will be presenting:
- Flexible Neural Representation for Physics Prediction. Damian Mrowca, et al. (2018)
And Iris will be presenting:
- Transfer Learning for sEMG Hand Gestures Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Ulysse Cote-Allard, et al. (2017)
Sethu Vijayakumar gives TEDx talk
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 19/06/2018 - 10:13
Sethu Vijayakumar appeared at TEDx Glasgow on Friday 1st June, giving a talk entitled 'Sending your robot to Mars? List of things to pack'.
In the talk, Sethu outlined the capabilities that would be required in an unmanned robotic pre-deployment mission to Mars. Three live robotics demonstrations were also included. Students from the centre joined Sethu to assist with the robots.
Journal Club Meeting
Date:
Thu, 14/06/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 15/06/2018 - 17:45
Location:
Rooms 4.31/4.33, Informatics Forum
There will be a journal club meeting this Thursday at 6pm at the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
Iordanis will be presenting:
- Application of Wrench based Feasibility Analysis to the Online Trajectory Optimization of Legged Robots. R. Orsolino, M. Focchi, C. Mastalli, H. Dai, D. Caldwell,
and C. Semini (2018).
And Marian will be presenting:
- Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning. T. Weber, et al (2018).
Robotics in Healthcare Event
Date:
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location:
TBC
The Usher Institute is running a half-day event on robotics in healthcare on Wednesday 8th August.
Details are below. If you are interested in taking part, please email Hajar Mozaffar (Hajar.Mozaffar@ed.ac.uk). Please note that places are limited.
Robotics in Healthcare: Current issues and future trends
Presentation skills training
Date:
Fri, 28/09/2018 - 13:30 to Sat, 29/09/2018 - 16:45
Location:
Rooms 4.31/4.33 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
This half-day masterclass aims to provide students with the skills required to deliver a clear and confident pitch at the CDT Annual Conference in October.
The workshop will cover:
•Understanding what makes an effective pitch
•Being clear about the objective and the audience
•Filming of your pitch with feedback
•Reflections and action plan
Throughout the session the following areas will be addressed:
Presentation skills training
Date:
Thu, 27/09/2018 - 13:30 to Fri, 28/09/2018 - 16:45
Location:
Robotarium seminar room - Heriot-Watt University
This half day masterclass aims to provide students with the skills required to deliver a clear and confident pitch at the CDT Annual Conference in October.
The workshop will cover:
- Understanding what makes an effective pitch
- Being clear about the objective and the audience
- Filming of your pitch with feedback
- Reflections and action plan
Throughout the session the following areas will be addressed:
Consensus meeting
Date:
Mon, 11/06/2018 - 11:00 to Tue, 12/06/2018 - 11:45