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.

Robotics, AI, and Pushing the Frontiers of Human Potential event

The National Robotarium, Tuesday 31 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

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

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