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.
Deadline to send posters in pdf format to Selina.
Deadline for 2014 cohort students to send their presentations to Selina Aragon.
If you wish to see the minutes from the last Executive Meeting, please email Selina Aragon.
If you wish to see the minutes from the last Executive Meeting (22nd September 2015), please email Selina Aragon.
Deadline for students to send their posters to their supervisors
The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (Robotarium East) has been successful with a Horizon 2020 research proposal, called TrimBot2020. The project will research the underlying robotics and vision technologies and prototype the first outdoor garden trimming robot. The robot will navigate over varying terrain, approach rose bushes, hedges and boxwood topiary, to trim them to an ideal shape.
"Robots that can understand human emotions are being brought into Scottish schools to help with teaching. It’s hoped the machines will be used to assist in subjects such as history or geography – and because they can sense when children are bored, frustrated or unhappy, they’ll be able to adapt their teaching methods in a simpler way to a human tutor."
"Learning and self-adapting robots have finally arrived. We are seeing real world applications, both positive and negative, emerging in the recent times that are creating disruptive changes in the way we work, commute, play, cure ourselves and compete through real-world adaptive robotic applications. This has thrown up interesting debates about trust, responsibility and accountability.