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.
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).
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
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:
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:
Throughout the session the following areas will be addressed:
There will be a Journal Club meeting this Thursday at 6pm at the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
Ross will be presenting the paper:
- Mori: A Modular Origami Robot. Christoph H. Belke and Jamie Paik (2017).
And Xinnuo will be presenting:
- Toward Controlled Generation of Text. Zhiting Hu, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Eric P. Xing (2017).
Abstract: Recent advances in technology both in hardware and soft-ware have fuelled visions of swarms of robots being sent to remote or hazardous environments in which they will need to survive over long periods of time.