There is a journal club meeting this Thursday at 6pm at the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
Martin will be presenting:
- Flexible Neural Representation for Physics Prediction. Damian Mrowca, et al. (2018)
And Iris will be presenting:
- Transfer Learning for sEMG Hand Gestures Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Ulysse Cote-Allard, et al. (2017)
ECR member Dr. Stefano Albrecht is guest co-editor of a new special issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents, to be published in the journal Artificial Intelligence.
Robotics: Utilities and Beyond organised by the IGEM Scottish Section and IET Scotland South East Network took place at Apex Grassmarket Hotel, Edinburgh. Keynote speakers included Sam Wilson, Head of UK Business Development at ULC Robotics; Wez Little, Innovations Director at Synthotech Limited; Wolfgang Merkt and Joao Moura, from the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
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.
The Workshop in Complex Cyber Physical Systems is taking place on Wednesday 27th June in room EM 2.44, Heriot-Watt University.
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: