International Workshop on Robotics, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Submitted by Colette Bush on Thu, 06/07/2017 - 14:25

Researchers, end users and technology developers attended the International Workshop on Robotics (IWR 2017) which took place on 30th and 31st March at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil.

 

This workshop, with a theme of “Robotics and automation: uncovering recent developments and applications on energy, industry, environment, agriculture, health and social settings” was organised jointly by Dr Patricia Vargas from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Professor Ely Carneiro de Paiva, from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Unicamp. 

Heriot-Watt Robotics and Interaction Labs host an Open Day

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Wed, 28/06/2017 - 11:02

The Robotics and Interaction Labs at Heriot-Watt University hosted a joint Open Day on Wednesday 21st June. The Open Day included two keynote speakers: Dr Verena Rieser from the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt and Dr Mary-Ellen Foster, a Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Rieser discussed "Data-driven methods for spoken dialogue systems" and Dr Foster presented on "Face-to-face conversation with socially intelligent robots". 

Seminar and workshop: Current Trends and Technical Challenges in Surgical Robotics

Date: 
Tue, 27/06/2017 - 11:00 to Wed, 28/06/2017 - 10:45
Location: 
Heriot-Watt University, PGC 2.02
Speaker: 
Prof. Jérôme Szewczyk
Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris VI

Prof. Jérôme Szewczyk will present a talk " Current Trends and Technical Challenges in Surgical Robotics" on Tuesday June 27th at Heriot-Watt University at 11AM in PGC 2.02.  Following this there will be  a half day workshop lead by Prof. Szewczyk and Dr. Mustafa Suphi Erden in WP 3.15 where they will discuss collaboration possibilities in the domain of laparoscopy, laparoscopy skill training and robotic assistance for laparoscopy.

Induction Afternoon new cohort University of Edinburgh

Date: 
Thu, 14/09/2017 - 13:00 to Fri, 15/09/2017 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

This induction day is mandatory for all students commencing the programme in September 2017.

The schedule for the day is as follows:

13:00 - 14:00   Welcome Lunch with other Informatics CDT students  (4th Floor, Mini Forum 2)

14:00 -16:00    Introduction to Informatics (Room 1.15) 
                        Tour of Facilities

16:00 - 17:00   RAS CDT reception – new and continuing students (G.07)

Induction Day new cohort Heriot-Watt University

Date: 
Thu, 07/09/2017 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University

This induction day is mandatory for all students commencing the programme in September 2017.

The schedule for the day is as follows:

09:30-09:45    Welcome coffee

09:45-10:30    RAS CDT introduction - Professor David Lane, CDT Director, Heriot-Watt University

10:30-12:00    Tour of facilities

12:00-12:30    Health and Safety Briefing; Allocation of desk space

12:30-13:30    Networking lunch

13:30-14:30    Course choices, enrolment completion with Registry

 

Annual Conference

Date: 
Wed, 11/10/2017 - 09:00 to Fri, 13/10/2017 - 16:45
Location: 
Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities

The aim of the 2017 conference is two-fold:

to provide delegates with an overview of the areas of research in which the RAS CDT students are working 

to provide a forum in which academia and industry can open the dialogue about collaborating to seek solutions to real world challenges

Morals and the Machine Training programme (all cohorts)

Date: 
Tue, 10/10/2017 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
G.07 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

Guest speakers:

Wendell Wallach http://wendellwallach.com/wordpress/

Professor Tony Prescott https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/tprescott

Dr Sabine Hauert http://robohub.org/author/sabinehauert/

Schedule

9:30 Welcome & Coffee

10:00 Invited Speaker 1

10:45 Invited Speaker 2

11:30 Invited Speaker 3

12:15 Lunch

Creativity@Home training for 2014 & 2015 cohorts

Date: 
Mon, 18/09/2017 - 00:00 to Tue, 19/09/2017 - 23:45
Location: 
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University

Monday 18th September

09.15 - 09.50

Introduction plus short warm up activity

09.50 – 11.10

Teaching 10 micro-tools for creative thinking

11.10 – 11.30

Break

11.30 – 13.00

Problem Solving Techniques

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.15

Igniting creativity

15.15 – 15.30

Break

15.30 – 16.25

Gamestorming

16.25 – 16.50

Thinking big

16.50 – 17.00