Executive Meeting

Date: 
Thu, 05/05/2016 - 14:00 to Fri, 06/05/2016 - 15:45
Location: 
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Please contact the CDT administrator to request minutes from previous meetings.
 

Robot Lab and 'Technologies of the Future: Today' at the Edinburgh International Science Festival

Submitted by maragon on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 12:13

James Garforth, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics student, organised the events Robot Lab and Technologies of the Future, Today. Robot Lab ran from 26th to the 30th March in the National Museum of Scotland and consisted of  a series demos that showcased the research carried out at the Centre by current students. Technologies of the Future, Today took place on 30th March in Summerhall. Carson Vogt, Iris Kyranou, Agamemnon Krasoulis, Sandy Enoch and Wolfgang Merkt gave talks about robots and showed some demos.

3DT and Friends

Date: 
Thu, 26/05/2016 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum
CDT in Robotics & Autonomous Systems, CDT in Data Science, CDT in Pervasive Parallelism

 

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)

Date: 
Sun, 21/08/2016 - 00:00 to Wed, 24/08/2016 - 23:45
Location: 
Charlotte, North Carolina

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. 

2016 International Summer School on Screw-Theory Based Methods in Robotics

Date: 
Sun, 28/08/2016 - 00:00 to Mon, 05/09/2016 - 23:45
Location: 
Montreal, Canada
Speaker: 
Dr Xianwen Kong
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

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.

Invitation to contribute to the Lloyd's Register Foundation RAS Foresight Review Survey

Submitted by maragon on Tue, 22/03/2016 - 15:17

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.

Unbottling the AI Demon

Date: 
Thu, 07/04/2016 - 17:30 to Fri, 08/04/2016 - 18:45
Location: 
Auditorium , National Museum of Scotland
Speaker: 
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar
Edinburgh Centre for 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).