Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Annual Conference

Date: 
Tue, 09/10/2018 - 09:00 to Wed, 10/10/2018 - 16:45
Location: 
John McIntyre Conference Centre
Speaker: 
Prof. Katja Mombaur; Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon; Dr. Stefan Schaal; Dr Kimberly Hambuchen

Please note that this event is by invitation only.

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics fourth annual conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday 9th October in the John McIntyre Pentland Suite, Pollock Halls. 

Programme

09.00                    David Lane and Sethu Vijayakumar - Welcome to conference & 2018 cohort

09.15                    David Lane and Sethu Vijayakumar - Review of 2017-18

09.45                    Keynote speaker – Professor Katja Mombaur, Heidelberg University

Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 18:00 to Fri, 09/02/2018 - 17:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh

The next meeting will be this Thursday, the 8th, at 6pm in the Forum, rm 4.31/33.
 

Iordanis will be presenting the paper:
- Gait and Trajectory Optimization for Legged Systems through Phase-based End-Effector Parameterization.

And Ross will be presenting the paper:
- New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities (2017). Matthew A. Robertson and Jamie Paik.

 

International contest reveals assisted living robots of the future

Submitted by ls234 on Thu, 01/02/2018 - 12:00

Europe’s most advanced assisted living robots were showcased in an international tournament at Heriot-Watt University, this week.

Academic teams from across the continent battled it out in the European Robotics League Service Robot Challenge (ERL), testing robots which aim to assist older people in a care setting.

The competition took place in the University’s custom built 60 square metre real life living laboratory, with researchers testing robots which could revolutionise the healthcare and social care sectors. 

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.