This one-day event will showcase the research of postgraduate students from across the Centres for Doctoral Training and institutes in the School of Informatics.
The event is jointly organised by the:
The ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference and the Computer and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016) is the world's leading research conference in mechanical engineering. IDETC/CIE 2016 consists of 11 conferences including The 40th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference.
The Summer School is intended for graduate students and young researchers in robotics. Participants are expected from both academia and industry. The course delivers a comprehensive overview of the basic concepts and some of the main applications of screw-theory, and hence will be particularly attractive to doctoral students and young researchers in robotics and related fields, mechanical engineering, or applied mathematics. Dr Xianwen Kong from Heriot-Watt will give lectures on the creative design of parallel mechanisms.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation has identified Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) as a key technology that impacts on the Foundation’s core objectives and has therefore commissioned a team led by Professor David Lane , Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Director, to produce a Foresight Report.
If you wish to see minutes from previous meetings, please email Selina.Aragon@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is pleased to announce that next year’s European Robotics Forum will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 22nd to 24th March 2017. The Centre's application to host this event was approved early January this year by EU Robotics.
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has predicted that AI might be the greatest existential threat humans will have to face and Prof Stephen Hawking has warned that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. But is technology already hurting us? And should we put the brakes on AI before it is too late?
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, will join a distinguished panel to talk about the risks that could arise from the development of human-level artificial intelligence (AI).
Edinburgh Centre of Robotics students Wolfgang Merkt, James Garforth, Iris Kyranou, Carson Vogt and Sandy Enoch discuss some of the robots they have created and what artificial intelligence might do in the future.
Cost: £8.50 standard price / £6.50 concessions / £4.25 #SciPals students
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Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Director, Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, is one of the three judges for the 2016 BBC Robot Wars alongside:
Dr Patricia Vargas, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Outreach and Public Engagement Lead, is co-organising the Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics at the renowned IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. You can watch the promotional video of the event at the IEEE WCCI 2016 YouTube Channel.