Avatar XPrize Semi-finalists

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Mon, 03/05/2021 - 12:25

Members of the Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals.

The Avater XPrize aims to create an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time. Dr Vladimir Ivan and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar are part of the AvatarX team led by Touchlab developing a mobile remotely operated robot with a unique capability of touch combined advanced shared control. 

Intellectual Property Workshop for CDT1 students

Date: 
Tue, 25/05/2021 - 14:00 to 16:00
Location: 
On line
Speaker: 
Edinburgh Innovations
University of Edinburgh

Michael Herrmann has arranged with Edinburgh Innovations to run the above workshop on Tuesday 25th May 2021 from 14.00-16.00 hours.  The workshop will give an overview of IP and will focus on patenting relating to robotics and software.

This training is part of the CDT #Cauldron programme which aims to help students to develop relevant soft skills, and it is recommended that as many of you participate as possible by registering at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ip-training-tickets-152661395343

International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Mental Health - SOCIAL AI CDT - University of Glasgow

Date: 
Tue, 08/06/2021 - 10:00 to 17:00
Location: 
On-line
Speaker: 
Please see agenda

Students are encouraged to attend this international workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health hosted by the SOCIAL AI CDT at the University of Glasgow.

Programme (More information about talks and speakers is available at socialcdt.org/aimh/)

10.00 - 11.00:    The role of habits in health behaviour: Challenges and opportunities for digital interventions - Esther Papies - University of Glasgow

IPAB Workshop: Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong Li

Date: 
Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location: 
Online
Speaker: 
Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong Li
University of Edinburgh

The next IPAB Workshop will take place on Thursday, 22/04/2021 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Wenbin Hu, Julian Habekost, Weihong li will be speaking.

The link the the workshop can be found in the corresponding email.

Speaker: Wenbin Hu

Title: Learning Reactive Motor Skills of Reaching and Grasping via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Multi-Agent Systems Talk Series: Change for Social Good using AI

Date: 
Fri, 26/03/2021 - 13:00 to 13:45
Location: 
Online
Speaker: 
Dr Kobi Gal
University of Edinburgh

We are pleased to announce the next talk in the Multi-Agent Systems Talk Series at the Turing Institute.

Date/time:
1pm, 26 March 2021

Speaker:
Dr Kobi Gal,
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/kgal/index.html

Talk:
“Behaviour Change for Social Good using AI”