"Sharing autonomy (and responsibility): The robots are ready, are you?" Professor Vijayakumar's Our Changing World Lecture 2015

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, who holds a RAEng - Microsoft Research Chair in Robotics and is the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics director at the University of Edinburgh, delivered the first lecture in the University’s Our Changing World series for 2015 on Tuesday 29th September 2015.

Internships & Career Planning (IAD) - 1st year PhD (CDT-RAS) students

Date: 
Fri, 20/11/2015 - 10:00 to Sat, 21/11/2015 - 13:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum, G.07
Speaker: 
Keith Edwards
Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh

This course is compulsory for 1st year PhD students of the CDT in Robotics & Autonomous Systems. Many Informatics PhD students break their studies for three to six months to take up an industrial internship. Internships can be beneficial in many ways. You may gain a new perspective on the practical application of your research area, you will get a flavour of working in an industrial setting, and you will make contacts which may be useful to you as your career evolves.

Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge - Introduction event

Date: 
Fri, 16/10/2015 - 16:00 to Sat, 17/10/2015 - 15:45
Location: 
Room 2.23, Earl Mountbatton Building, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Jose Part
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) is an international robotics competition to be held every two years with total prize and team sponsorship of USD 5 Million.