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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
AR puppy presented at Adobe MAX
The Mode Adaptive Neural Networks is adopted for controlling the AR puppy in Adobe Aero
Members of RAD group awarded best paper runner up at robot learning conference
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2019), Oct 30-Nov 01 in Osaka, Japan
Professor Vijayakumar hosts UK-Japan Robotics and AI research collaboration workshop
Co-organised by The Alan Turing Institute and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Former IPAB student receives Presidential award
Svetlin Penkov
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy hosts RAI-NR workshop in Edinburgh
Robust Artificial Intelligence for Neurorobotics
NEXTAGE Open Collaborative Humanoid Robot
New arrival to Bayes Centre
Robotic autonomy in our complex world Event
Robotic autonomy in our complex world Event 15 Aug 2019 at Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS
Carl Allen and Timothy Hospedales awarded Best Paper Honourable Mention at ICML 2019
King - man + woman = queen: the hidden algebraic structure of words
Postdoctoral research position in multi-agent systems
Applications are invited for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project “Model Criticism in Multi-Agent Systems”.
Pint of Science Festival 2019
Taking place 20-22 May 2019
CDT-RAS funding renewed
£18m funding boost for Robotics research in Scotland
National Museum of Scotland exhibition - Robots
The Robotics exhibition is now open at Chamber Street, Edinburgh and will run until 5 May 2019.
Michael Herrmann appointed as guest Professor with GIIM
Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing (GIIM)
SIGGRAPH 2018 - keynote speech includes UoE mention
University of Edinburgh character animation work mentioned in NVIDIA CEO keynote speech
Bayes Centre now open
IPAB staff locations
Bob Fisher - UK representative
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Bob Fisher - book publication
3D Shape Analysis: Fundamentals, Theory, and Applications
GIIM visit IPAB and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufactoring (GIMM)
ANYmal at Goodwood Festival of Speed
12-15 July, Chichester.
Sony Playstation game launch - Bob Fisher
'Detroit: Become Human' developed by Quantic Dream
CVPR Tutorial 2018 - Hakan Bilen
18th June 2018, Salt Lake City, USA
Sethu Vijayakumar speaking at TEDx Glasgow
Friday, 1st June 2018
IPAB YouTube channel
Videos showcasing research projects of IPAB members.
Pint of Science: Designing Robots and AI for the future
Wednesday, 16 May, 2018 - 19:00.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar speaks at OGTC's Tech20
The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) has launched a series of weekly events called 'Tech20'
Artificial Intelligence in the Cinema collection events
AI in the Cinema collection events lead by Bob Fisher including Forbidden Planet, Dystopian AI and Philip K Dick Day.
Karctic Subr secures funding
Holey Sampling: Topological Analysis of Sampling Patterns for Assessing Error in High-Dimentional Quadrature project