Executive meeting
Date:
Fri, 17/11/2017 - 11:00 to Sat, 18/11/2017 - 10:45
Location:
Robotarium Seminar room, Earl Mountbatten building, Heriot-Watt University
All staff meeting
Date:
Fri, 17/11/2017 - 13:30
Location:
Robotarium seminar room - Earl Mountbatten Bldg Heriot-Watt University
All staff meeting to discuss developments in the Centre
IPAB Workshop: Building motion models that are both discrete and continuous
Date:
Thu, 02/11/2017 - 12:45
Location:
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Vladimir Ivan
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB workshop will take place on Thursday November 2nd at the Informatics Forum in room 4.31/4.33, pastries will be provided.
Vladimir Ivan will give a talk "Building motion models that are both discrete and continuous".
*Abstract:* Robot motion has continuous properties, such as control effort and distance to the goal, but also discrete properties, e.g.
sequence of contacts or an order in which to manipulate objects.
Gateway Event: Introduction to humanoid robot's full-body manipulation and development of high-power and robust hardware
Date:
Tue, 14/11/2017 - 14:00 to Wed, 15/11/2017 - 13:45
Location:
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Shunichi Nozawa
JSK Robotics Lab (University of Tokyo)
On Tuesday November 14th, Shunichi Nozawa from the JSK Robotics Lab at the University of Tokyo, will be giving a talk at the Informatics Forum.
Talk title: Introduction to humanoid robot's full-body manipulation and development of high-power and robust hardware
IPAB workshop: TrimBot2020 and recent research in Fisher's vision group
Date:
Thu, 19/10/2017 - 12:45
Location:
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Bob Fisher
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB workshop will be this Thurday at 12:45 in IF 4.31/4.33. Pastries will be provided.
Title: *TrimBot2020 and recent research in Fisher's vision group
RSE Franco-Scottish Lecture: Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics
Date:
Wed, 15/11/2017 - 18:00 to Thu, 16/11/2017 - 17:45
Location:
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar
University of Edinburgh
The next generation of robots are going to work much more closely with humans and with other robots, and interact significantly with the environment around them. As a result, the key paradigms are shifting from isolated decision-making systems to one that involves shared control – with significant autonomy devolved to the robot platform; and end-users in the loop making only high-level decisions.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar keynote at IGD Leaders Forum
Submitted by Colette Bush on Fri, 13/10/2017 - 13:45Professor Sethu Vijayakumar will be a keynote speaker at the IGD Leaders Forum on 18th October in London. The topic for discussion will be Artificial Intelligence in the food industry and will comprise of the following:
Automation is accelerating in food and grocery. Will this promote productivity and prosperity or will it feed the fires of discontent and rebellion?
- Is AI about to transform the business world?
- Is it any different to previous waves of technology?
- What ethical challenges will it present?
Welcome to three new Centre academics
Submitted by Colette Bush on Fri, 13/10/2017 - 13:23We are delighted to announce the arrival of three new academics to our fast-growing centre. We would like to welcome Dr Lynne Baillie, Dr Hakan Bilen and Dr Thusha Rajendran and all of the experience and expertise they will bring to the Centre.
Dr Lynne Baillie
Lynne is based in the department of MACS at Heriot-Watt University. Her reseach interests are Health and Rehabilitation Technologies & Robotics, Mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human Robotic Interaction (HRI).
Git Tutorial
Date:
Fri, 13/10/2017 - 14:00 to Sat, 14/10/2017 - 13:45
Location:
Appleton Tower room 7.14, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Vladimir Ivan
University of Einburgh
The Git Tutorial will cover the following:
- Adding READMEs and .gitignore.
- Using a GUI to manage file changes.
- Using a GUI to visualize the history of the repo.
- Creating a feature branch.
- Switching between branches.
- Merging changes from other branches.
- Rebasing a branch.
- Managing remotes.
- Pushing/pulling branches to/from the remote.
- Creating pull requests.
- Reviewing pull requests.
- Merging pull requests.
- Creating, solving, and closing issues.
Welcome to Dr. Stefano Albrecht
Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Wed, 11/10/2017 - 16:47
We would like to welcome Dr. Stefano Albrecht as a supervisor for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics! He is the new Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in the areas of autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, machine learning, and game theory, with a focus on sequential decision making under uncertainty.