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
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
The Centre was delighted to welcome Mr. Hu Chunhua, Party Secretary of CPC Guangdong Committee, and Mr. Wen Guohui, Mayor of Guangzhou City, as part of a delegation visiting our facilities at Robotarium-East on Monday the 12th of June. Our Centre Director, Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, gave our distinguished guests a presentation including an overview of our research at the ECR and there were demonstrations of Valkyrie, our Humanoid Robot from our NASA partnership, our Husky UGV and our PR2 Humanoid.
Dr Thusha Rajendran from Heriot-Watt University, will present a talk "Robots, Virtual Environments and Developmental Disorders: Technology Advancement Needs Neurodiversity" on Thursday June 29 from 12:00-14:00 in Paterson's Land 1.19, at the Moray House School of Education (EH8 8AQ)
The Robotics and Interaction Laboratories at Heriot-Watt University are hosting an Open Day on Thursday 21st June. The Open Day will feature two keynote speakers, Dr Verena Rieser and Dr Mary-Ellen Foster. Along with PhD students they will present research plans and results. The full schedule for the day is detailed below:
The ERF2017 Organising Team is very proud to announce that they have been awarded the Outward Looking category in the 2017 Spirit of Heriot-Watt Awards. This award recognises the huge amount of effort the team put into organising and delivering the highly successful 2017 European Robotics Forum which reached over 800 delegates from academia and industry.
ERF2017 Organising Team:
Theodore Lim will present a talk "Game Based Learning - EU BEACONING Project" on Friday June 2nd from 12:15-14:00, room TBA.
Theodore is from IMPEE at Heriot-Watt University, his research centres around digital tools for intelligent manufacturing systems. His interests in game-based approaches, cyber-physical systems and data science have led to two successful EU funded projects in the area of serious games and technology-enhanced learning.
Antonio Fleres will present a talk “Robotics: What happens in the EU parliament?” on Friday May 26th from 2-3pm in room 3.06 in the Earl Mountbatten Building at Heriot-Watt University.
Antonio is a Master's student in Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Messina. He is visiting Heriot-Watt University on an Erasmus exchange.
Academics from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics will be speaking at a special event at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) on Thursday 15 June as part of the range of activities planned around Heriot-Watt University’s Year of Robotics and UK Robotics Week.