Heriot-Watt University and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics was represented in the Future Combat Systems Expo 2018, that took place on the 3rd of July and organized by BAE Systems. This forum was an opportunity for us to present our research and engage with industry to identify the most pressing needs in the area of underwater systems.
Heriot-Watt has been recognised with one of the country’s top marketing honours for its Year of Robotics campaign.
To encourage innovation from research underway in the Centre, the CDT has allocated some modest resources to support current RAS CDT students in the preparation of prototype hardware and/or software that could lead to a commercial idea.
Two groups of students are already benefiting from funding from the first round of calls at the start of 2018 with exciting projects progressing well.
09:00 Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh)
Being good to robots
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.
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).
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.
Heriot-Watt University has just been awarded the Herald Higher Education Award for ‘Campaign of the Year’ for Year of Robotics 2017.