Congratulations to Edinburgh Centre for Robotics student Siobhan Duncan (2016 cohort) who was awarded first place in the ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Student Research Competition held in Cyprus in April for her work titled “Bringing Stigmergy into the Real World”
Robots combined with artificial intelligence (AI) are the future. Edinburgh's own Centre for Robotics is leading the field, with world-leading research across a variety of robotics projects. Join us for this fascinating evening on the future of robotics and AI. Should we regulate artificial intelligence? If we regulate now, will it impede technological innovation? And what can insects teach us about advanced robotics? Grab a pint and relax, this evening has a lot in store!
More details to follow.
By invitation only
13.00 Networking lunch
14.00 Review of current - David Lane/Sethu Vijayakumar
Update new CDT - Helen Hastie/Michael Mistry
National Robotarium - David Lane
Q&A Session
15.30 Break for Tea/Coffee
16.00 Student feedback - Centre Directors
Ross will be presenting:
- An Automated Liquid Manipulation by Using a Ferrofluid-Based Robotic Sheet. T. Tone and K. Suzuki (2018).
Professor Stefan Willliams, Head of School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney visited Heriot-Watt University on Monday 13th May and delivered a seminar on Applications in Marine Imaging.
The practical realization of automated mobility, transport, and end-to-end logistics is burgeoning. Coordinated multi-vehicle systems are facilitating this new reality through the execution of task allocation, path planning, and formation control. In this talk, I shed some light on new challenges in these areas, and present insights that pertain to their scalability, robustness and privacy.
Bio
For more than three decades Roberto Pieraccini has been actively working towards the goal of building machines that can intelligently converse with humans using speech. The technologies that enable a machine to recognize the words of an utterance, understand its meaning, decide how to act on that, perform an action and generate a spoken message back to a user where very limited thirty years ago.