Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 22/03/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 23/03/2018 - 17:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Calum Imrie & Boris Mocialov

There will be a journal club meeting this Thursday in the Informatics Forum, room 4.31/33, at 6pm.

Calum Imrie will be presenting the paper:

- The dynamic neural field approach to cognitive robotics. Wolfram Erlhagen, and Estela Bicho.

 

And Boris Mocialov will be presenting:

- Universal neural machine translation for extremely low resource languages. Jiatao Gu, Hany Hassan, Jacob Devlin, and Victor O.K. Li.

 

Gateway Event: Healthcare robotics – a qualitative exploration of key challenges and future directions

Date: 
Fri, 16/03/2018 - 14:00 to Sat, 17/03/2018 - 15:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Dr. Kathrin Cresswell
Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics University of Edinburgh

There will be a Gateway Event this Friday March 16th from 2-4pm at the Informatics Forum room 4.31/4.33.  The speaker, Kathrin Cresswell, will be accompanied by two of her colleagues, Hajar Mozaffar and Aziz Sheikh. They will be available for a discussion after the presentation.

 

Healthcare robotics – a qualitative exploration of key challenges and future directions"

Dr. Kathrin Cresswell
Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow, Director of Innovation
Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
University of Edinburgh

IPAB Seminar and Workshop

Date: 
Thu, 08/03/2018 - 12:30 to Fri, 09/03/2018 - 13:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Antonio Javier Gallego Sánchez & Zhibin (Alex) Li

Thursday March 8th there will be two talks in the Informatics Forum 4.31/4.22 with pastries available.

EVENT CANCELLED: When Robots Hit the Road: New Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination and Control

Date: 
Fri, 02/03/2018 - 10:15
Location: 
WP315, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Amanda Prorok
University of Cambridge

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER. N

We are pleased to announce that Dr Amanda Prorok, a University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge will present at the next Gateway event.

Title:

When Robots Hit the Road: New Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination and Control

Abstract:

IPAB Workshop

Date: 
Thu, 22/02/2018 - 12:45 to Fri, 23/02/2018 - 13:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Evripidis Gkanias, Daniel Angelov & Raluca Scona
University of Edinburgh

There will be an IPAB Workshop on Thursday the 22nd February at 12:45 - 14:00 in conference room 4.31/33. Evripidis Gkanias, Daniel Angelov and Raluca Scona will be speaking.  Pastries will be available

Speaker: Evripidis Gkanias

Title: Insect inspired design of a polarisation compass

Gateway Event - HRI from a psychologist's perspective

Date: 
Fri, 04/05/2018 - 10:30 to 11:30
Location: 
Robotarium Seminar Room, EM, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Thusha Rajendran
Heriot-Watt University

HRI especially socially assistive robots is an interdisciplinary field. Here, I offer the perspective of a developmental psychologist of what psychology can gain and what we can offer to this field (e.g. theory and research methods). I will discuss key elements of child development (e.g. joint attention, theory of mind) which are relevant to developmental robotics and aspects of social developmental (e.g. communication development) that are key to social robotics.

Journal Club Meeting

Date: 
Thu, 22/02/2018 - 18:00 to 19:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum, room 1.16

Marian Andrecki will be presenting the paper:

- Prediction Under Uncertainty with Error-Encoding Networks. Mikal Henaff, Junbo Zhao, and Yann LeCun.

Siobhan Duncan will be presenting:

- Benchmark of swarm robotics distributed techniques in a search task. Micael S. Couceiro, Patricia A. Vargas, Rui P. Rocha, and Nuno M.F. Ferreira.

EVENT CANCELLED: Google Hash Code comes to Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Date: 
Thu, 01/03/2018 - 15:30 to Fri, 02/03/2018 - 21:45
Location: 
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Amanda Proroc
University of Cambridge

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON...

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is hosting its own “Google Hash Code Hub” on Thursday 1st March.  The event which is being organised by a small group of female STEM students, led by PhD student Siobhan Duncan, is open to female developers, engineers and tech enthusiasts from all across Edinburgh.