News and Events
Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group.
Bayes Centre Tour: Meet the Robots
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics are involved in world leading research on robots for human assistance. Visit the laboratory to discover their cutting-edge robotic research, meet humanoid robots and learn the ways robots can assist humans.
HARMONY Assistive Robots for Healthcare 2nd General Assembly
7-9 February 2023
ICRA 2023 Embracing Contacts Workshop
2nd June 2023, London
Robotics, AI, and Pushing the Frontiers of Human Potential event
The National Robotarium, Tuesday 31 January 2023
PhD Studentship in Biomechanically Enabled Robot Support for Assisted Living
Closing date 27th January 2023
Best Conference Paper Finalist at IEEE Robio 2022
Congratulations to Andreas Christou, Daniel Gordon, Theodoros Stouraitis and Sethu Vijayakumar
Published Paper Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2022)
Congratulations to Christopher Mower, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Christian Rauch, Lei Yan, Nazanin Zamani Behabadi, Michael Gienger, Tom Vercauteren, Christos Bergeles and Sethu Vijayakumar
MEMMO project winner of Étoiles de l’Europe
Horizon 2020 MEMMO project awarded the 12 stars of Europe 2022
DAWN Avatar Robot Cafe
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar visits the cafe to see the impact of our collaboration with Kawada Robotics Corporation
The Alan Turing Institute-Waseda University MoU signing
14th November 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar invited to present lecture at Waseda University, Japan
Monday 14th November 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar at Data Summit 2022
3rd & 4th November 2022 - EICC, Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh-Digital University Kerala MoU signing
St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar invited speaker at The 8th International Symposium on "Dialogue for Global Innovation" (DFGI-8)
Wednesday 5th -Thursday 6th October, London
Impact of UKIERI collaborations
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations
Papers accepted at IROS 2022 Conference
Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2022
Deputy First Minister visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
John Swinney MSP visits The University of Edinburgh Wednesday 24th August 2022
The Turing Lectures: Where next for self-driving vehicles?
Tuesday 27 September 2022
ANYmal film features on IEEE Spectrum website
'Video Friday'
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2022), Philadelphia USA
Three members of the SLMC team present their work at ICRA 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents keynote speech at Altair Executive Dinner
Invited Keynote and Panellist at Altair Executive Dinner & Networking Event
Published Paper IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
Congratulations to Christian Rauch, Ran Long, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar
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
SLMC welcomes a new Postdoctoral Researcher to the team
Dr Saeid Samadi joins the team in Edinburgh
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