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India Science Festival (online event) - 21st January 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Future of Automated Robots: How far have we come?'.
ATI - Special issue: Multi-agent systems research in the UK
Submit your articles to AI Communications, the European Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Submissions must be received no later than 30 April 2022)
Prof. Ram Ramamoorthy speaks at Validate AI Conference 2021
2nd - 3rd December, virtual event
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems win 2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award
The sixth edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award was presented at a ceremony on 26 October 2021, during the 17th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2021), a hybrid event in Madrid and online.
Informatics presentation at NeuroMONSTER 2021 conference
Jerry Zhao, Master of Informatics,
NeuroMONSTER 2021: Mathematics Of Neuro-Science, Technology and Engineering - 21st and 22nd September
Prof. Ram Ramamoorthy takes on mentor role as part of new IEEE initiative
EEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Developing Country Faculty Engagement Program
Stefano Albrecht to speak at "Meeting of Minds 2021"
September, 29th-30th
Barbara Webb - panelist for Film Festival event
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
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)
Prof. Ramamoorthy features in the Computerphile podcast series
The episode of a popular computer science podcast featuring Professor Ramamoorthy has been watched by almost 40 thousand people so far.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar keynote speaker at Automatica Sprint 2021
"Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics"
IPAB members have papers accepted at IROS
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
IPAB and RAD group alumni successfully close pre-seed investment round
Dr Svetlin Penkov and Dr Daniel Angelov, co-founders of start-up company Efemarai
Ministerial Visit for Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Amanda Solloway MP
Prof Ramamoorthy talking at Φ-ML meets Engineering
3rd June at 1pm
COVIBOT project examines doctors' perception of robots helping out during the pandemic
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.
Taku Komura named among the top 100 most influential researchers AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars list
Ranked 15th in area of Computer Graphics
Two papers accepted at SIGGRAPH 2021
SIGGRAPH, 9-13 August (online)
Ram Ramamoorthy - Living with AI Podcast
“Would you trust a driverless car?”
Avatar XPrize Semi-finalists
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
Professor Vijayakumar secures two new Joint Industry Projects (JIP) with HONDA and Kawada
Barbara Webb awarded five-year EPSRC Advanced Career Fellowship
AI insect-inspired approaches to robot grasping
HARMONY project are recruiting for a Research Associate
Full-time, fixed-term 24 month post
Nine SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2021
30 May - 5 June 2021
Xi'an, China
Harmony: Enhancing Healthcare with Assistive Robotic Mobile Manipulation
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.
Scotsman Inside Science
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar explains how robotics can lend a personal touch to human healthcare.
Dr. Alex Li - Teaching a Robot Dog New Tricks
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.
Sethu Vijayakumar to host Turing Lecture: Building Dynamic Robots with Boston Dynamics
22nd September 2020, 15:00
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is recruiting for Robotics Laboratory Manager
Full-time, fixed-term appointment
Talos six-foot humanoid robot arrives in Edinburgh
Newest addition to the robotics research lab
Hakan Bilen and collaborators to host ECCV online tutorial
Weakly-Supervised Learning in Computer Vision - 28th August 2020.
Seven SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2020
International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems - October 2020
Subramanian Ramamoorthy taking part in "The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas" (CODI)
15th July 2020 @ 8pm
Subramanian Ramamoorthy awarded grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering
Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness Grant
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar to present at RSE Artificial Intelligence Event
30th June 2020 at 2pm - How Artificial Intelligence is changing our world
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar to present AIRS SPOTLIGHT series seminar.
Wednesday 17th June from 8.30am-10.30am
Dr Vladimir Ivan appears on Edinburgh: Space Data Capital
International Space Connections episode
2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Goes Online
August 23rd - 28th 2020
SLMC goes to CogX2020
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar will lead Collaborative Robotics and Autonomous Systems panel discussion - 8th June, 10am
Stefano Albrecht receives major grant from US Office of Naval Research
The project will develop new algorithms for explainable reasoning, learning, and interaction for ad-hoc multi-agent collaboration
Barbara Webb has perspective article published in Science Magazine
'Robots with insect brains'
EXOTica motion planning and control toolbox in the 15 most downloaded ROS packages in 2020
Developed by IPAB SLMC researchers
Sethu Vijayakumar represents ECR at EISF 2020 **CANCELLED**
**Due to Coronavirus, this event has been cancelled**
Edinburgh International Science Festival, 4 - 19 April 2020
Steve Tonneau paper accepted in IEE Transactions on Robots Journal
C-CROC: Continuous and Convex Resolution of Centroidal Dynamic Trajectories for Legged Robots in Multicontact Scenarios
TrimBot2020 launches animated short to encourage girls to get into STEM
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.
Professor Vijayakumar to present at 'Hello Robot' exhibition
Thursday, 23rd January in the V&A Dundee.
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics recruiting for Research Associates/Senior Research Associates
3 full-time posts available
Sebastian Starke to present at SIGGRAPH Asia on 19 November
Deep neural network generates realistic character-scene interactions