Professor Alessandro Vinciarelli from the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow will speak on Synthetic impressions through artificial gestures.
There will be a journal club meeting this Thursday in the Informatics Forum, room 4.31/33, at 6pm.
Calum Imrie will be presenting the paper:
- The dynamic neural field approach to cognitive robotics. Wolfram Erlhagen, and Estela Bicho.
And Boris Mocialov will be presenting:
- Universal neural machine translation for extremely low resource languages. Jiatao Gu, Hany Hassan, Jacob Devlin, and Victor O.K. Li.
There will be a Gateway Event this Friday March 16th from 2-4pm at the Informatics Forum room 4.31/4.33. The speaker, Kathrin Cresswell, will be accompanied by two of her colleagues, Hajar Mozaffar and Aziz Sheikh. They will be available for a discussion after the presentation.
Healthcare robotics – a qualitative exploration of key challenges and future directions"
Dr. Kathrin Cresswell
Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow, Director of Innovation
Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
The Journal Club will take place this Thursday at 6pm in the Forum (Room: 4.31/33)
Chris McGreavy will be presenting the paper: 'Human Push-Recovery: Strategy Selection Based on Push Intensity Estimation (2016)' Lukas Kaul and Tamim Asfour.
Chris Mower will also be presenting (paper choice tbc).
Thursday March 8th there will be two talks in the Informatics Forum 4.31/4.22 with pastries available.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER. N
We are pleased to announce that Dr Amanda Prorok, a University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge will present at the next Gateway event.
Title:
When Robots Hit the Road: New Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination and Control
Abstract:
A prominent UK Government Minister visited Heriot-Watt University today, to find out more about cutting-edge robotics research.
Lord Henley toured the Ocean Systems and Human Robot Interaction labs to hear more about innovative work which goes on at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
During the event, the Minister met with academics and was given demonstrations of underwater robots, which are used in extreme environments.
There will be an IPAB Workshop on Thursday the 22nd February at 12:45 - 14:00 in conference room 4.31/33. Evripidis Gkanias, Daniel Angelov and Raluca Scona will be speaking. Pastries will be available
Speaker: Evripidis Gkanias
Title: Insect inspired design of a polarisation compass
HRI especially socially assistive robots is an interdisciplinary field. Here, I offer the perspective of a developmental psychologist of what psychology can gain and what we can offer to this field (e.g. theory and research methods). I will discuss key elements of child development (e.g. joint attention, theory of mind) which are relevant to developmental robotics and aspects of social developmental (e.g. communication development) that are key to social robotics.