RAS CDT students Siobhan Duncan and Boris Mocialov attended the Dumfries and Galloway Science Festival along with Nathan Todd and Klaudia Kleczkowska from the Heriot-Watt Robotics Society.
Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes interaction with machines possible through voice and text platforms, and is a rapidly growing research area. It is estimated that 16% of adults in the US own and regularly use smart speakers, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home (NPR & Edison research).
These Conversational AI Systems have experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using “intelligent” data-driven machine learning methods.
Teun Krikke (2014 cohort), Joao Moura (2015 cohort) Xinnuo Xu (2016 cohort), and Martin Asenov (2016 cohort) all sat on the Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Panel - EUYSRA.
Wenbin Hu, Iordanis Chatzinikolaidis, Kai Yuan, and Zhibin Li's paper "Comparison Study of Nonlinear Optimization of Step Durations andFoot Placement for Dynamic Walking" has been accepted to the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) on 21-25 May 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.
Throughout the evening you will hear from leaders in their field, Professor Emma Hart from Napier University and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar from the University of Edinburgh, outline how they are shaping the future of robotics and AI. You’ll have a unique opportunity to see and interact with some of the projects. You can even have a pint with a robot!!
Tickets cost £4.00 and can be purchased online: https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/designing-robots-and-ai-for-the-future
The next Executive meeting will take place on Friday 11th May from 9am until 11.30am in 9.01 Neil McCormack Room (David Hume Tower), University of Edinburgh.
What if it rains? Indeed, what if it snows or the mist rolls in? Will your autonomous vehicle still be able to guide you safely to your destination? These are the central questions at the heart of the PATHCAD (Pervasive low-TeraHz and Video Sensing for Car Autonomy and Driver Assistance) EPSRC/JLR project conducted by Birmingham, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities together with the engineering team at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
Abstract: At any given moment, how should an intelligent agent decide what to think about, how to think about it, and how long to think for? My research attempts to answer these questions by focusing on the best examples of intelligent agents that we have: humans.
Scotland’s First Minister has welcomed a unique robotics partnership – set to forge strong links between Scotland and China.
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics has joined forces with The State Key Laboratory of Robotics in Shenyang to work on joint research projects in marine robotics, nano robotics, electric power industry robotics and medical robotics.
This event hosted by IGEM Scottish Section and IET Scotland South East Network will look at robotics development, exploring academic research through to practical applications in the utilities sector.
The event will feature speakers at the forefront of robotics advancement, including: