Robot Lab - Edinburgh International Science Festival

Date: 
Sat, 26/03/2016 - 00:00 to Wed, 30/03/2016 - 23:45
Location: 
Learning Centre Level 2, National Museum of Scotland
Speaker: 
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics current students
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

 

Meet and interact with our current students at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at the Edinburgh International Science Festival from 26th to 30th March. They will be showing demos and and will be happy to answer any questions you have about robots.

For further information, please visit the Science Festival event page.

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Current CDT students

CDT in Robotics and Autonomous Systems Open Day

Date: 
Fri, 26/02/2016 - 09:00 to Sat, 27/02/2016 - 15:45
Location: 
Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

 

Find out more about the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Open Day on 26th February 2016 at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. The morning session will be held at Heriot-Watt University (9:00am) and the afternoon session at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (12:30pm). Please note that EPSRC CDTs in Pervasive Parallelism and Data Science will be part of  the afternoon session at the University of Edinburgh.

Tam Dalyell Prize Lecture at the Science Festival

Date: 
Sun, 10/04/2016 - 18:00 to 19:30
Location: 
Playfair Library
Speaker: 
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, University of Edinburgh

 

In this year’s Tam Dalyell lecture, Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, looks at how humans and robots will work together in the future. The next generation of robots will work much more closely with humans, other robots and interact significantly with the environment around them. With significant autonomy devolved to the robotic platforms, will we be able to share control in a way we are comfortable with?

Meet Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at SubSea Expo Aberdeen 2016

Date: 
Wed, 03/02/2016 - 09:00 to Thu, 04/02/2016 - 08:45
Location: 
Subsea Expo 2016, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
Speaker: 
Various
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, Heriot-Watt University

 

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics will be exhibiting at Subsea Expo, the world’s largest subsea exhibition and conference which is taking place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre from 3rd to 5th February 2016.

Honda Research Institute to collaborate with Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Submitted by maragon on Tue, 26/01/2016 - 09:37

Last Friday 22nd January 2016, Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Personal Chair in Robotics in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, concluded a contract signing with Honda Research Institute Europe, in the Informatics Forum’s Turing Room. This marks the beginning of a fruitful collaboration in the domain of interactive robotics between the Centre and Honda RI, the home of the world famous ASIMO humanoid. Professor Vijayakumar said:

ECR welcomes Professor Michael Beetz from the University of Bremen

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Mon, 18/01/2016 - 11:43

The team at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics was delighted to welcome Professor Michael Beetz to Edinburgh last week. Professor Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Faculty for Mathematics & Informatics of the University Bremen and Head of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI). IAI investigates AI-based control methods for robotic agents, with a focus on human-scale everyday manipulation tasks.  

How Robotics Will Reshape Our Lives in the Next Two Decades - Public Debate

Date: 
Thu, 04/02/2016 - 18:30 to 20:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum, G.07/G.07A
Speaker: 
Various
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and British Science Association

We have come to expect gadgets to make life easier and more enjoyable for us in our homes, at work and at play. But what do we make of the rapid advances in robotics and autonomous systems (driverless vehicles, service industry machines, logistics robots in warehouses, combat vehicles)? Are they to be welcomed as further progress or feared for unwanted impacts on our lives, our jobs and our society?