The Robots for Resilient Infrastructure Competition was an International Robotics Challenge Event held at the University of Leeds June 27-28, 2017.
Wolfgang Merkt, Yiming Yang, Theodoros Stouraitis, Christopher Mower, Maurice Fallon and Sethu Vijayakumar
The Centre is delighted to welcome Dr Sen Wang to the academic team based at Heriot-Watt University. Dr Wang's research interests include localisation, navigation, robotic vision, SLAM, autonomy, robot learning.
An inter-disciplinary team, involving students and academics from across Heriot-Watt University, took the CBBC channel by storm on Thursday 10th August with an appearance on the long-running magazine programme, Blue Peter.
A group of PhD students from Heriot-Watt University are the only team from the UK to be chosen as one of three finalists in Amazon's $2.5 Million Alexa Prize.
The six strong student group, from the Interaction Lab in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, were originally chosen from over 100 entries from 22 countries world-wide.
Autonomous Mining Systems
New Scientist Live, a festival of ideas and discovery, is taking place at ExCeL London from 28th September until 1st October.
The event will have five main themes – Humans, Technology, Earth, Cosmos and Engineering. There will be a wide range of speakers including two academics from the Centre.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar will speak about “Shared autonomy: the future of interactive robotics”. Professor Barbara Webb will discuss "How insects inspire robotics".
Students from Heriot-Watt joined Pudsey Bear last weekend for a major new outreach activity, forming part of the University’s Year of Robotics.
On Thursday 10th August at 5.30pm on the CBBC Channel, Pepper, one of our social robots, will help present an episode of Blue Peter! As part of our Year of Robotics celebrations, Dr Thusha Rajendran from SOS will also be on hand to guide viewers through some of our robotics and AI work including MiRo dog-bots and Alyx, our EMYS head. After the episode, viewers can head online to the CBBC website where they can enjoy more digital content plus Pepper will be answering questions posed by young viewers.
The next meeting of the SICSA AI Theme will take place on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at the Cottrell Building Room B3, University of Stirling.
You can register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial-intelligence-research-theme-meeting-tickets-36141047847
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