Team EduBot awarded 3rd place in Watt Ventures: Bright Ideas competition

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Tue, 10/07/2018 - 09:36

Watt Ventures: Bright Ideas is a business pitching competition run by the Enterprise Team at Heriot-Watt University that gives students with early-stage business ideas the chance to win up to £500.  To be considered for this award, students are asked to submit a two-minute video of them pitching their business idea.

We are delighted to report that our CDT students Siobhan Duncan and Boris Mocialov, and affiliated student Ingo Keller have been awarded 3rd prize at the Watt Ventures Awards for their pitch for their business idea EduBot – Robotics Education for Kids.

Journal Club Meeting

Date: 
Thu, 12/07/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 13/07/2018 - 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.

Boris will be presenting:

- Regularizing and Optimizing LSTM Language Models. Stephen Merity, Nitish Shirish Keskar and Richard Socher (2017)

And Xinnuo will be presenting:

- Toward Controlled Generation of Text. Zhiting Hu, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Eric P. Xing (2017).

 

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. 

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)

IEEE Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics 2018

Submitted by ls234 on Wed, 20/06/2018 - 15:58

Dr Patricia A Vargas, Dr Renan Moioli, Dr Micael Couceiro, Prof Josh Bongard and Prof Phil Husbands are leading and organising a special session that will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July this year.

The IEEE Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics is part of the WCCI 2018, which is the largest technical event in the field of computational intelligence.