Centre Director David Lane to be guest of honour at Policy UK event

Submitted by Cat Andrade on Wed, 02/11/2016 - 12:51

Our centre director David Lane will be the guest of honour at Policy UK's event - The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Future: Putting Britain at the Forefront of the 4th Industrial Revolution. The event will be held in London on November 23rd and will see David, lead author on the RAS2020 UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Strategy  speak on Next Steps for Implementing the Robotics and Automated Systems 2020 Strategy.

European Robotics Forum 2017

Date: 
Wed, 22/03/2017 - 09:00 to Sat, 25/03/2017 - 16:45
Location: 
Edinburgh International Conference Centre

This 3-day event is expected to attract over 600 delegates.  This audience will comprise researchers, engineers, managers, entrepreneurs, and public and private sector investors in robotics R&D.

The objectives of the forum are to:

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Annual Conference 2016

Submitted by Cat Andrade on Thu, 20/10/2016 - 11:08

On Thursday 13 October 2016, the second Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Conference took place at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh.  Industry partners, academic staff and students attended the event which was kicked off by Professor Chris Atkeson’s engaging keynote talk: ‘What next for humanoid robotics?’

Centre directors David Lane and Sethu Vijayakumar provided an overview of the Centre’s activities over the last year as well as introducing the new cohort of students.

Postgraduate Open Day at The University of Edinburgh

Date: 
Wed, 16/11/2016 - 09:30 to 16:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

Come and learn more about postgraduate study at The University of Edinburgh and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems on Wedensday 16th November.

Hear from academics and students on postgraduate study at the School of Informatics, tour the facilities and have the chance to have your questions answered.

More information and to register

http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-day

Dr Patricia Vargas named as one of 25 women in robotics you need to know about

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Wed, 12/10/2016 - 09:40

Congratulations to Dr Patricia Vargas who is included in Robohub’s fourth annual ‘25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About‘ list, complied in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day.

Patricia Vargas is the Founding Director of the Robotics Laboratory and Associate Professor/Reader in Computer Science and Robotics at the School of Mathematical and Computer Science (MACS) at  Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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: