There is a Journal Club meeting this Thursday at 6pm at the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
Chris will be presenting:
- Forbidden-region virtual fixtures from streaming point clouds. Fredrik Ryden and Howard Jay Chizeck (2012).
And Calum Imrie will be presenting:
- Path Planning based on Reaction-Diffusion Process. Alejandro Vazques-Otero, Jan Faigl and Alberto P. Munuzuri (2012).
Dr. Filippo Cavallo with be hosting a joint seminar with University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. The dates and times are as follows:
Date: Monday 11th June
Place: Room G.07, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Time: 3pm – 4pm
Date: Wednesday 13th June
Place: Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University
Time: 3pm-4pm
During the event, run by Scotland’s Futures Forum and the RSE’s Young Academy of Scotland, a video and engagement project to explore people’s hopes and fears about the changes that would face the country in the coming decades.
#OurFutureScotland challenges everyone – from the First Minister and other party leaders, to leading business and technology figures, and award-winning authors and artists – to consider the kind of country they want Scotland to be in the future.
Sending your robot to Mars? List of things to pack
Robotics are changing the way we work, play and explore. In his talk, Sethu explores some daring ideas that are both out of this world and have a profound impact on our daily lives – ideas that would have been considered impossible just a decade ago but are now critical to the very survival of our race. Ideas that are being enabled through cutting-edge developments in robotics and artificial intelligence.
We are delighted to confirm that a team of six students from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (ECR) along with one undergraduate student from Heriot-Watt University has been selected to take part in the final round of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League - Virtual Robot Competition.
Nowadays service robotics is experimenting an increasing number of opportunities to be integrated in several scenarios of daily living, from the home to the city and at work. This trend comes with a number of scientific challenges in the field of robotics, all aiming to improve the robot capabilities and abilities. Hence, the integration of Robotics, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence is an interesting approach that enables the possibility to design and develop new frontiers in human robot interaction, collaborative robotics, cognitive robotics, etc.
Abstract: Nowadays service robotics is experimenting an increasing number of opportunities to be integrated in several scenarios of daily living, from the home to the city and at work. This trend comes with a number of scientific challenges in the field of robotics, all aiming to improve the robot capabilities and abilities. Hence, the integration of Robotics, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence is an interesting approach that enables the possibility to design and develop new frontiers in human robot interaction, collaborative robotics, cognitive robotics, etc.
Abstract: This talk unifies my work on "Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases" and "The meaning of the EPSRC principles of robotics" into a coherent whole, explaining what I meant to say in 2007 when I wrote "Robots should be slaves". For links to these papers, please see Joanna’s page on Google Scholar