News and Events
Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group.
Papers accepted at Humanoids 2024
Two papers accepted at Humanoids 2024, being held in Nancy, France
Paper accepted at 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
6-9 November, 2024, Munich, Germany
Launch of two JST-UoE Moonshot Programme Research Projects
The University of Edinburgh and Japan Science & Technology (JST) Collaborative Moonshot Projects
Congratulations Juan Del Aguila Ferrandis for achieving Master of Research
Reinforcement Learning for Non-prehensile Manipulation under Visual Occlusions and Obstacles
Congratulations (Dr.) Andreas Christou for a successful PhD Defence
Enhancing Gait Rehabilitation Using Robotic Assistance and Functional Electrical Stimulation
Humanoid and Exoskeleton research featured in the Channel 5 Documentary
Mike Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body
Keynote at World Robotics Conference 2024 in Beijing
21-25 August 2024 Beijing, China
Papers accepted at ICRA@40
Two papers and a journal accepted at the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA@40), held in Rotterdam
Papers accepted at IROS 2024
Two papers and one workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024, being held in Abu Dhabi
UoE-DUK Partnership for CoE in AI announced at India's first GenAI Conclave in Kochi
GenAI Conclave in Kochi, 11-12 July 2024
AI in Healthcare Workshop
Supported by the EU Project HARMONY, The Alan Turing Institute, The National Robotarium and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
ICRA 2024 and ATR Symposium
SLMC in Japan, May 2024
Edinburgh Science Festival: Meet the Robots
We opened our laboratory to visitors to discover cutting-edge robotic research, meet humanoid robots and learn the ways robots can assist humans.
Paper Published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Congratulations Jiayi Wang, Sanghyun Kim, Teguh Santoso Lembono, Wenqian Du, Jaehyun Shim, Saeid Samadi, Ke Wang, Vladimir Ivan, Sylvain Calinon, Sethu Vijayakumar, and Steve Tonneau
Sir Hugh Cairns Lecture at the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS 2024)
19 April 2024, Edinburgh International Convention Centre (EICC)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
SLMC and the Alan Turing Institute present five papers and a workshop at ICRA 2024
AIUK Fringe 2024: Lab Open Day
Friday 29th March 2024
First Lego League students visit the Lab
Friday 23rd February 2024
Published Paper IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Congratulations to Lei Yan, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Wenfu Xu, Michael Gienger, and Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor Vijayakumar delivers Opening Keynote at AI Conference Nepal
AI for Prosperous Nepal conference on 3 March 2024
British Council GREAT Talk Session
11 February 2024 at the British Council, Dhaka
International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2023
29 November 2023
Waseda Super Global University (SGU) Symposium Keynote
Invited speaker at the International Symposium on Machine Intelligence for Future Society 2023
Lecture and live demo at Kawada
Final demonstration of Joint Industry Project between Kawada Robotics and University of Edinburgh on 27th Nov 2023, Tokyo
HARMONY Assistive Robots for Healthcare 3rd General Assembly
EU HARMONY project 3rd General Assembly held 6-8 November 2023 in Lisbon
Published Paper Autonomous Robots
Congratulations Henrique Ferrolho, Vladimir Ivan, Wolfgang Merkt, Ioannis Havoutis and Sethu Vijayakumar
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
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
Papers accepted at ICRA 2022 Conference
Two SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2022
'Personal AI-based robots as lifetime human companions' - Science AAAS Webinar
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 5pm
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 recently qualified for the finals of the Avatar XPRIZE.
IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference 2022
University of Edinburgh 23 February 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar talks at CompSoc Student Society
From Automation to Autonomy: Data-driven Machine Learning for Interactive Robotics, 18 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 21st January 2022 online event
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Future of Automated Robots: How far have we come?'.
SLMC welcomes two new PhD students
Two new PhD students join the team in Edinburgh
Congratulations (Dr.) Christopher Mower for his successful PhD Defence
Title: An Optimization-based Formalism for Shared Autonomy in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Journal Article, Volume 29
Congratulations to Carlo Tiseo, Wolfgang Merkt, Keyhan Kouhkiloui Babarahmati, Wouter Wolfslag, Ioannis Havoutis, Sethu Vijayakumar and Michael Mistry
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal Article Volume 142, August 2021
Congratulations to Henrique Ferrolho, Wolfgang Merkt, Carlo Tiseo and Sethu Vijayakumar
Papers accepted at IROS 2021 Conference
Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2021
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)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society TC Best Paper Award Finalist
Title: Online Hybrid Motion Planning for Dyadic Collaborative Manipulation via Bilevel Optimization
Minister for Science, Research and Innovation visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Amanda Solloway MP visits The University of Edinburgh
Thursday 24th June 2021
Paper accepted at IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2021)
Congratulations to Jiayi Wang, Sanghyun Kim, Sethu Vijayakumar and Steve Tonneau
Paper accepted at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2021)
Congratulations to Chris Mower, Joao Moura and Sethu Vijayakumar
Congratulations (Dr.) Daniel Gordon for his successful PhD Defence
Title: Exoskeleton-assisted Locomotion
Design, Control & Evaluation of Wearable Robotic Devices
Avatar XPrize Semi-finalists
Members of the SLMC group in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals.
Congratulations (Dr.) Theodoros Stouraitis for his successful PhD Defence
Title: A Dyadic collaborative Manipulation formalism for Optimizing Human-Robot Teaming
Congratulations (Dr.) João Moura for his successful PhD Defence
Title: Controlling and Learning Constrained Motions for Manipulation in Contact
Professor Vijayakumar secures two new Joint Industry Projects (JIP) with HONDA and Kawada
Honda and Kawada join the University of Edinburgh in the latest cutting edge research
Papers accepted at ICRA 2021 Conference
Nine SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2021
Harmony: Enhancing Healthcare with Assistive Robotic Mobile Manipulation
New H2020 Project awarded to enable flexible and safe autonomous mobile manipulation robots for use in human-centred environments.
Scotsman Inside Science
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar explains how robotics can lend a personal touch to human healthcare
ORCA Hub Vlog: Robust Shared Autonomy and Whole Body Motion Control for Loco-Manipulation
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar in conversation with Professor David Lane - 24 September 2020
Turing Lecture: Building Dynamic Robots with Boston Dynamics
In conversation with Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics: 22 Sep 2020 (3 pm BST)
The Ethics of Disruption: Robots can re-boot the world
Jericho Roundtable Discussion 4th September 2020
Talos Humanoid arrives in Edinburgh
Talos six-foot humanoid robot arrives in Edinburgh
Robotics: Science and Systems 2020
SLMC presenting at RSS 12th July 2020
Papers accepted at IROS 2020 Conference
Seven SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2020
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar elected fellow of the ELLIS network
'ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap!'
World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Professor Vijayakumar to talk at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on 10th July 2020.
RSE Artificial Intelligence Event
From Automation to Autonomy: Collaborative Robots driving the Future of Work
AIRS SPOTLIGHT Series Seminar
From Automation to Autonomy: Advances in Machine Learning driving Next-gen Robotics
Edinburgh: Space Data Capital
Dr Vladimir Ivan appears on Edinburgh: Space Data Capital
Sethu Vijayakumar at CogX 2020
The CogX Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Breakthrough Technology
Papers Accepted at ICRA 2020 Conference
Three SLMC papers accepted at ICRA2020.
RSE After Hours **CANCELLED**
Enjoy an evening focused around artificial intelligence and it's impact on society. Join Professor Sethu Vijayakumar as part of the line up for an evening of discussions, short talks and activities showcasing the latest research and cutting edge developments.
Talos Humanoid at the Edinburgh International Science Festival **CANCELLED**
The newest addition to the robotics research lab at the University of Edinburgh
Professor Vijayakumar at the V&A Dundee Robots Exhibition
‘Hello Robot’ exhibition, V&A Dundee
Turing UK-Japan Robotics and AI workshop
The first formal workshop as part of a wider UK government announcement relating to new scientific collaborations between UK and Japan.