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Edinburgh Science: Can Robots Care?
12 April 2023, Bayes Centre
Edinburgh Futures Institutes Love Machines series: Living with Robots
13 March, 18:00pm (UK)
Playfair Library Hall, Old College
Edinburgh Science: Games Robots Play
13 April 2023, 7pm (UK), Bayes Centre
Edinburgh Science: Bayes Centre Tour - Meet the Robots
14 April 2023
ICRA 2023 Embracing Contacts Workshop
2nd June 2023, London
MEMMO project winner of Étoiles de l’Europe
Horizon 2020 MEMMO project awarded the 12 stars of Europe 2022
Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht awarded RAEng Industrial Fellowship
Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).
University of Edinburgh-Digital University Kerala MoU signing
St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022
PhD Studentship in Biomechanically Enabled Robot Support for Assisted Living
Closing date: 27 January 2023 (or until position is filled)
Laura Sevilla-Lara - Google Scholar Awards 2022
Sparse Temporal Representations for Video Understanding
The Turing Lectures: Where next for self-driving vehicles?
Tuesday 27 September 2022 Time: 19:00-20:30
Impact of UKIERI collaborations
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations
Deputy First Minister visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
John Swinney MSP visits The University of Edinburgh Wednesday 24th August 2022
ANYmal film features on IEEE Spectrum website
'Video Friday'
Laboratory Software Engineer - vacancy
Closing date: 11th August 2022
Ram Ramamoorthy speaks at Scottish Parliament briefing panel
AI and Accountability
Taku Komura and group win best paper award
SIGGRAPH 2022
Best paper finalist in CVPR 2022
New Orleans, Lousianna
19-24 June 2022
Robotics Laboratory Manager - vacancy
Closing date: 14th July 2022
Research Associate - 3 available posts within SLMC group
Closing date: 30th June 2022
Vision Zero Summit Japan 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Shared Autonomy for Dependable Human Robot Interactions'
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk at ADAPT research centre in Dublin
'From Automation to Autonomy: Novel Machine Learning driving the Next-Generation of Robotics’
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) Published Paper
Congratulations to Shen Li, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger, Sethu Vijayakumar and Julie Shah
BBC Reporting Scotland broadcast with Professor Sethu Vijayakumar
How British Sign Language is changing in Computer Science - 28 March 2022
IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter 1st Prize Poster Winners
Congratulations Joao Moura, Chris Mower, Christian Rauch, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) Published Paper
Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Christopher McGreavy, Andreas Christou and Sethu Vijayakumar
Dr Alex Li nominated in the EUSA Teaching Awards 2022
Outstanding Course Robotics Science and Systems
Papers accepted at ICRA 2022 Conference
Two SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar talks at CompSoc Student Society
From Automation to Autonomy: Data-driven Machine Learning for Interactive Robotics, 18th February 2022
Prof. Ram Ramamoorthy contributes to a new Podcast
“Towards a Vision for Next-generation AI”
“What does AI offer people as they get older and what is the role of co-design?”
Ram Ramamoorthy will chair this session at the Scottish AI Summit, 30th March 2022
Turing UK-Italy Robotics and AI research collaboration workshop
1st March 2022, Rome Italy
Avatar XPrize Finalists
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.
IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference 2022
University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 23rd February 2022
The Future of Robotics WIRED documentary
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar provides his insight into the future of robotics in a four part WIRED documentary
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