Professor Frauke Zeller is Chair in Design Informatics in the Edinburgh College of Arts at the University of Edinburgh, and co-directs the Institute for Design Informatics.
Dr Karen Donaldson has joined the University of Edinburgh on an Elizabeth Georgeson Fellowship where she will be working on robotics for planetary exploration. Dr Donaldson worked at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Connect-R EPSRC project for robotics in unstructured environments, she then was a project manager at the National Robotarium. Please get in touch with her about potential collaborations.
... for the Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems where he'll give a lecture on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), based on his new textbook http://marl-book.com
Stefano Albrecht has recently returned from a two-week China trip where he gave many talks at top universities and tech companies. One of the highlights was a talk at the BAAI 2024 conference (Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence) in Beijing, which is widely regarded as the most important AI conference in China and has had many big speakers.
Stefano V. Albrecht, Filippos Christianos and Lukas Schäfer have released the final version of their textbook ‘Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches’ which now can be downloaded for free from the website: https://www.marl-book.com
Lecture slides for the book will be released in the first quarter of 2024 and a printed version, published by MIT Press, is scheduled for later in the year.
A new textbook titled "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches" written by IPAB members Stefano V. Albrecht, Filippos Christianos, and Lukas Schäfer, to be published by MIT Press.
The PDF pre-print version of the book was released at the start of the AAMAS 2023 and ICRA 2023 conferences. The PDF can be downloaded from the book website at www.marl-book.com.
Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng). See the RAEng press release and tweet.
Dr Vladimir Ivan and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar are members of the AvatarX team lead by Touchlab which recently qualified for the finals of the Avatar XPRIZE.
Fifteen teams from eight countries have been selected by the Avatar XPRIZE judging panel to advance to the final, which is due to be held later in the USA in 2022.
A team of eight British Sign Language and Tech experts have created 500 words and phrases to help members of the deaf community access education and jobs in Computer Science. BBC Scotland visited the University of Edinburgh Robotic Labs to look at the positive impact this will have on our future generations.
Link to the BBC Scotland interview with Professor Vijayakumar can be found here
A group of CDT RAS students have just returned from two action packed days at the University of Edinburgh’s Firbush Outdoor Centre near Killin. After packed lunch on arrival at Firbush, the Firbush staff briefed everyone about the site and the activities. In the afternoon students spilt into two groups. One went kayaking, starting with a trip up the loch, and finishing with kayak games in the harbour. The other group was paddle boarding and went for a trip in the opposite direction, finishing off with some challenges on the paddle boards.