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Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).

St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022

Closing date 11th November 2022

Sparse Temporal Representations for Video Understanding

Tuesday 27 September 2022 Time: 19:00-20:30

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations

John Swinney MSP visits The University of Edinburgh Wednesday 24th August 2022

'Video Friday'

Closing date: 11th August 2022

AI and Accountability

SIGGRAPH 2022

New Orleans, Lousianna 19-24 June 2022

Closing date: 14th July 2022

Closing date: 30th June 2022

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Shared Autonomy for Dependable Human Robot Interactions'

'From Automation to Autonomy: Novel Machine Learning driving the Next-Generation of Robotics’

Congratulations to Shen Li, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger, Sethu Vijayakumar and Julie Shah

How British Sign Language is changing in Computer Science - 28 March 2022

Congratulations Joao Moura, Chris Mower, Christian Rauch, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar

Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Christopher McGreavy, Andreas Christou and Sethu Vijayakumar

Outstanding Course Robotics Science and Systems

Two SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2022

From Automation to Autonomy: Data-driven Machine Learning for Interactive Robotics, 18th February 2022

“Towards a Vision for Next-generation AI”

Ram Ramamoorthy will chair this session at the Scottish AI Summit, 30th March 2022

1st March 2022, Rome Italy

Dr Vladimir Ivan and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, as part of the AvatarX team lead by Touchlab, qualify for the finals of the Avatar X PRIZE.

University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 23rd February 2022

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar provides his insight into the future of robotics in a four part WIRED documentary

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Future of Automated Robots: How far have we come?'.

Submit your articles to AI Communications, the European Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Submissions must be received no later than 30 April 2022)

2nd - 3rd December, virtual event

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.

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