ECR to attend Dumfries & Galloway Science Festival

Date: 
Sat, 21/04/2018 - 12:00 to Sun, 22/04/2018 - 11:45
Location: 
Easterbrook Hall, Crichton Campus, Dumfries

Students from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics will be attending this event to showcase the work of the Centre through demonstrations of Miro, Nao and Spheros robots. 

This is a family-oriented science fest from the makers of Glasgow Science Festival, with drop-in displays and exhibitions and loads of science related fun for everyone.

CISA (et al) Seminar: Multiagent Learning: Foundations and Recent Trends

Date: 
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 14:00 to Tue, 06/02/2018 - 13:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33
Speaker: 
Stefano Albrecht
University of Edinburgh

Next Monday Feburary 5th from 2-3pm Stefano Albrecht will present parts of a tutorial given at the IJCAI'17 conference (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~larg/ijcai17_tutorial/).

Multiagent Learning: Foundations and Recent Trends (IJCAI'17 Tutorial)

IPAB Workshop: Towards Programming by Discussion: Grounding Symbols and Using them in Motion Planning

Date: 
Thu, 25/01/2018 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Ram Ramamoorthy
University of Edinburgh

There will be an IPAB Workshop on Thursday the 25th January at 12:45 - 13:45 held in the Informatics Forum, conference room 4.31/33. Ram Ramamoorthy will be speaking.

Pastries will be available.

Student Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 25/01/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 26/01/2018 - 17:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33

Presenters:

Ioannis: Navigational Instruction Generation as Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Neural Machine Translation (2016). Andrea F. Daniele, Mohit Bansal, and Matthew R. Walter. 

Xinnuo: Attention Is All You Need (2017). Ashish Vaswani, et al.

 

 

Prof Sethu Vijayakumar on BBC Radio Scotland - Brainwaves

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Mon, 15/01/2018 - 11:22

On January 17th an interview with Prof Sethu Vijayakumar will air as part of BBC Radio Scotland's Brainwaves series.  

It will be boadcast at 13:30 on Janurary 17th and again on Sunday the 21st at 06:00, with ability to replay on their website by following the link here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m17xr

"What role will robots play in our lives in the future? We already interact with robots on a daily basis but with the development of intelligent, free-thinking robots our relationship with them will change.

IPAB Workshop: Quadrotors as a model for the study of dragonfly hunting behaviour & Emergence of Human-comparable Balancing Behaviours by Deep Reinforcement Learning

Date: 
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Jan Stanciewicz & Chuanyu Yang
University of Edinburgh

There will be an IPAB Workshop on Thursday the 11th January at 12:45 - 13:45 held in conference room 4.31/33. Jan Stanciewicz and Chuanyu Yang will be speaking.

Pastries will be available.

Why Do Robots Need Common Sense?

Date: 
Sat, 03/02/2018 - 13:30
Location: 
Big Bang Weekend - Main Hall, County Buildings, Wigtown
Speaker: 
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Why is it so hard to create a machine that can think like a 2-year old child, yet that same machine can beat a grand master in chess?

Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy will take the audience from the the lab floor and into the future where scientists are exploring consciousness, learning and how thinking creates life.