RAS Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
Mon, 22/02/2021 - 10:00 to Tue, 23/02/2021 - 11:45
Location:
Online
IPAB Workshop - Towards robotic lung sampling in critically ill patients
Date:
Thu, 04/02/2021 - 13:00 to Fri, 05/02/2021 - 13:45
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Mohsen Kadem
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 04/02/2021 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Mohsen Kadem will be speaking. The link can be found in the cooresponding email.
Title: Towards robotic lung sampling in critically ill patients
New publication from Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi
Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Fri, 22/01/2021 - 10:48Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi, one of our academics based at the University of Edinburgh, has a new publication out on Science Robotics. You can read it here!
IPAB Workshop - 21/01/2021 at 1pm - Persistent Homology for Warm-starting Optimal Control
Date:
Thu, 21/01/2021 - 13:00 to Fri, 22/01/2021 - 13:45
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Vlad Ivan
University of Edinburgh
Hi All,
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 21/01/2021 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate. The link can be found in the original email.
Speaker:Vlad Ivan
Title: Persistent Homology for Warm-starting Optimal Control
Abstract: Shooting methods are an efficient approach to solving non-linear optimal control problems.
CDT RAS End of Year Event
Date:
Wed, 16/12/2020 - 16:00 to Thu, 17/12/2020 - 17:45
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Alexandra Mousavizadeh
16.00 hours Keynote speaker - Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Alexandra Mousavizadeh is a Danish economist and partner at Tortoise Media in London and creator of The Responsibility100 Index and The Global AI Index. She specialises in index creation, using data to build indices that rank nations, companies and other entities on key social and technological issues.
16.45 hours Festive bake off competition
IPAB Workshop: Explainability in Reinforcement Learning
Date:
Thu, 03/12/2020 - 13:00 to Fri, 04/12/2020 - 13:45
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Michael Herrmann
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 03/12/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Michael Herrmann will be speaking. The link can be found in your emails.
Title: Explainability in Reinforcement Learning
RAS Executive Meeting
Date:
Tue, 19/01/2021 - 10:00 to Wed, 20/01/2021 - 11:45
Location:
Virtual (on-line)
Turing Lecture: Building Dynamic Robotics with Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics
Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Tue, 17/11/2020 - 09:40Over 630 attendees logged in to watch the full interview between Marc Raibert, Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, and to interactively take part in the live online polls and Q&A session.
Boston Dynamics are leaders in some of the world’s most advanced robots including Spot, Atlas and Handle. The company specialises in robots which can reach inaccessible areas and are able to move more quickly to get the work done faster.
ECR Staff to lead Research Nodes as part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme
Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Mon, 09/11/2020 - 16:04The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched six new research projects or, “nodes” aimed at tackling challenges to the development of autonomous systems. These are part of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme which will undertake fundamental, creative and multidisciplinary research in various areas key to ensure autonomous systems can be built in a way society can trust and use.
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics has been awarded funding for two nodes:
IPAB Workshop: Bob Fisher
Date:
Thu, 12/11/2020 - 13:00 to Fri, 13/11/2020 - 13:45
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Bob Fisher
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place 12/11/2020 at 1pm via Blackboard Collaborate - Bob Fisher. The link can be found in your emails.