News and Events
Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group.
Papers accepted at IROS 2023
Two papers accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023, being held in Detroit.
Congratulations (Dr.) Ran Long for successfully passing his DPhil viva
Title: Robust SLAM and motion segmentation under long-term dynamic large occlusions
Published Paper Royal Society Open Science
Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Andreas Christou, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger and Sethu Vijayakumar
Congratulations (Dr.) Russell Buchanan for successfully passing his DPhil viva
Title: Inertial Learning and Haptics for Legged Robot State Estimation in Visually Challenging Environments
Congratulations (Dr.) Traiko Dinev for a successful PhD Defence
Title: Concurrent Design and Motion Planning in Robotics using Differentiable Optimal Control
Congratulations (Dr.) Jiayi Wang for a successful PhD Defence
Title: Online Receding Horizon Planning of Multi-Contact Locomotion
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
SLMC and The Alan Turing Institute present one keynote, five papers and a workshop at ICRA2023
Bayes Centre Tour: Meet the Robots
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics are involved in world leading research on robots for human assistance. For one day only we opened our laboratory to adults and children to discover cutting-edge robotic research, meet humanoid robots and learn the ways robots can assist humans.
Published Paper IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Congratulations to Mathew Pollayil, Franco Angelini, Guiyang Xin, Michael Mistry, Sethu Vijayakumar, Antonio Bicchi and Manolo Garabini
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