IEEE Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics 2018

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.

Sethu Vijayakumar gives TEDx talk

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.

Journal Club Meeting

Date: 
Thu, 14/06/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 15/06/2018 - 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.

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).

 

Presentation skills training

Date: 
Fri, 28/09/2018 - 13:30 to Sat, 29/09/2018 - 16:45
Location: 
Rooms 4.31/4.33 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

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:

Presentation skills training

Date: 
Thu, 27/09/2018 - 13:30 to Fri, 28/09/2018 - 16:45
Location: 
Robotarium seminar room - Heriot-Watt University

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:

Journal Club Meeting

Date: 
Thu, 31/05/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 01/06/2018 - 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.

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).