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Jerry Zhao, Master of Informatics, NeuroMONSTER 2021: Mathematics Of Neuro-Science, Technology and Engineering - 21st and 22nd September

EEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Developing Country Faculty Engagement Program

September, 29th-30th

REEL TALKS: THE PURPOSE OF CONNECTION - Edinburgh International Film Festival

AI Research in Japan: Challenges at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project - Online Event Professor Sethu Vijayakumar chairs the online event with Professor Sugiyama Masashi, Director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN-AIP)

The episode of a popular computer science podcast featuring Professor Ramamoorthy has been watched by almost 40 thousand people so far.

"Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics" 

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.

Dr Svetlin Penkov and Dr Daniel Angelov, co-founders of start-up company Efemarai

Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Amanda Solloway MP

3rd June at 1pm

Professor Subramanian Ramamoorthy and his collaborators on the COVIBOT project looked into whether healthcare professionals are likely to accept being supported by robots to overcome hazards and risks related to COVID-19 transmission control.

Ranked 15th in area of Computer Graphics

SIGGRAPH, 9-13 August (online)

“Would you trust a driverless car?”

Members of the SLMC group in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals.

Professor Vijayakumar secures two new Joint Industry Projects (JIP) with HONDA and Kawada

AI insect-inspired approaches to robot grasping

Full-time, fixed-term 24 month post

30 May - 5 June 2021 Xi'an, China

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar looks at flexible and safe autonomous mobile manipulation robots for use in human-centred environments by making fundamental contributions in cognitive mechatronic technologies as part of his new H2020 project, HARMONY.

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar explains how robotics can lend a personal touch to human healthcare.

Alex Li and team, in collaboration with Zhejiang University, have created a quick-thinking quadruped that has the ability to use pre-learned skills to respond and adapt to previously unseen situations.

22nd September 2020, 15:00

SIGGRAPH 2020

Full-time, fixed-term appointment

Newest addition to the robotics research lab

Weakly-Supervised Learning in Computer Vision - 28th August 2020.

International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems - October 2020

10th July 2020

15th July 2020 @ 8pm

Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness Grant

30th June 2020 at 2pm - How Artificial Intelligence is changing our world

Wednesday 17th June from 8.30am-10.30am

International Space Connections episode

August 23rd - 28th 2020

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar will lead Collaborative Robotics and Autonomous Systems panel discussion - 8th June, 10am

The project will develop new algorithms for explainable reasoning, learning, and interaction for ad-hoc multi-agent collaboration

'Robots with insect brains'

Developed by IPAB SLMC researchers

**Due to Coronavirus, this event has been cancelled** Edinburgh International Science Festival, 4 - 19 April 2020

C-CROC: Continuous and Convex Resolution of Centroidal Dynamic Trajectories for Legged Robots in Multicontact Scenarios

Prof Bob Fisher, who leads the EC funded TrimBot 2020 project that delivered the world's first autonomous gardening robot would like more girls to study STEM. On the back of the project a video aimed at pre-school girls entitled ‘Ani’s Year in the Garden’ was commissioned.

Thursday, 23rd January in the V&A Dundee.

3 full-time posts available

Deep neural network generates realistic character-scene interactions

The Mode Adaptive Neural Networks is adopted for controlling the AR puppy in Adobe Aero

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2019), Oct 30-Nov 01 in Osaka, Japan

Co-organised by The Alan Turing Institute and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Svetlin Penkov