The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the French Embassy in London are collaborating in a programme of science events designed to explore and publicly present areas of science in which both Scotland and France have a powerful presence. These events are intended to stimulate Franco–Scottish collaboration in science, present new scientific ideas and their social and commercial implications to the public and increase awareness of French and Scottish science in each other’s country. The 2017 Seminar is on the topic of Robotics.

The next IPAB workshop will take place this thursday in IF 4.31/4.33 at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Sethu Vijayakumar will be speaking.  Pastries will be provided.

Title: Shared Autonomy -- The Future of Interactive Robotics

All staff meeting to discuss developments in the Centre

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.

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

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

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.