Professor Sethu Vijayakumar invited as speaker at the India-UK Tech Summit - Nov 2016

Submitted by Cat Andrade on Tue, 11/10/2016 - 08:48

Professor Vijayakumar, ECR Director, will be one of the high profile speakers headlining the biggest showcase of UK-India Technology in sectors ranging from Agriculture, Life Science, Healthcare, Smart Cities, Advanced Manufacturing and of course, Robotics being held in New Delhi on Nov 7-9, 2016. ECR affiliated student, Aga,  and enterprise fellow, Sandy, will showcase live demonstrations of their research at the high profile exhibition venue.

ECR Academic Dr. Mauro Dragone presents at ScotSoft 2016

Submitted by Cat Andrade on Thu, 29/09/2016 - 17:39

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics academic Mauro Dragone spoke at ScotSoft 2016 on the 8th October 2016 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

http://www.scotlandis.com/scotsoft/programme/

Dr. Dragone illustrated the potential of building an Internet of Robotic Things, and discussed the artificial intelligence and software engineering issues associated with its realisation.

Visit by the US Office of Naval Research Global (ONR-G)

Date: 
Wed, 28/09/2016 - 15:15
Location: 
Earl Mountbatten EM2.33

The Centre is delighted to be hosting a short visit by the US Office of Naval Research Global (ONR-G) Technical Director Dr Patricia Gruber and her colleague Dr Deji Coker, Associate Director.

ONR-G fund collaborations with US laboratories and groups through travel grants and other forms of seed corn funding. They also sponsor events such as conferences as part of their world-wide technology watch and awareness.

Gateway Event - NASA's Dr Robert Ambrose - Distinguished Lecture

Date: 
Tue, 27/09/2016 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum Room G07
Speaker: 
Dr Robert Ambrose
NASA

 

Principle Technologist for NASA's  Game Changing Development Programme, Dr Robert Ambrose will be delivering a Distinguished Lecture at the School of Informatics on 27th September.  He is also the first speaker in the new series of Informatics Ventures 'IV Tuesday' events.

Dr. Ambrose is primarily interested in ideas that will change how humans explore space.

Talk title:

Robotic Caretakers:  Enabling the Pre-Deployment Approach to Human Space Exploration

Abstract:

The Royal Society of Edinburgh interview ECR director for 'Quiz a Whiz' YouTube series

Submitted by Cat Andrade on Fri, 29/07/2016 - 13:27

Our director Sethu Vijayakumar has been interviewed for The Royal Society of Edinburgh 'Quiz a Whiz'  YouTube video series.

 Find out what made Sethu interested in robotics, his research and what he thinks will be the next big thing.

School of Informatics - Recent News

Sethu 'Quiz a Whiz' with RSE YouTube video

Royal Society of Edinburgh
 

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Annual Conference

Date: 
Thu, 13/10/2016 - 09:00 to 22:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

Please note this event is by invitation only.

The aim of this conference is to provide delegates with an overview of the areas of research in which the CDT students are working,  and to provide an opportunity to explore areas of collaboration with the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.

Thursday 13th October 2016

The agenda is as follows:

09:00                     Registration, teas and coffees

09:25                     Welcome – Professor Sethu Vijayakumar

Induction for new Robotics students 2016 (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 
Thu, 15/09/2016 - 13:00 to Fri, 16/09/2016 - 16:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, Crichton Street
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

We look forward to welcoming new RAS CDT students to our induction event at the University of Edinburgh.  The schedule for the afternoon is as follows:

13:00 - 14:00       Welcome Lunch  with other Informatics CDT students – Mini-forum 1

14:00 – 16:00       Pitching Skills Workshop – room G07, followed by a tour of facilities

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