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Report on our Annual Conference, October 6th 2020

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Wed, 04/11/2020 - 10:55

Our annual conference took place online this year, and we found it to be just as engaging and diverse as ever.  We were joined on Zoom by four keynote speakers, and about 100 students, staff and industry representatives. 

We kicked off with Keynote speaker Professor Metin Sitti from Max Planck institute who did a talk on soft-bodied small scale robotics that featured memorable robots modelled after baby jellyfish. 

Welcome to Dr. (Chris) Xiaoxuan Lu !

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Wed, 16/09/2020 - 11:54

We would like to welcome (Chris) Xiaoxuan Lu as a supervisor for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics! He is the new Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests broadly lie in mobile autonomy, perception and sensing (MAPS), with the focus on spatial AI under visual degradation, fog Robotics and edge IoT, RF and multi-modal sensor fusion; secure and privacy-aware autonomous systems.

Upcoming Event - Turing Lecture: Building dynamic robots

Submitted by Zoe McGonigle on Tue, 08/09/2020 - 14:05

On September 22nd the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and The Alan Turing Institute will be hosting exciting talk with guest Marc Raibert from Boston Dynamics.  You can register here.

Turing Lecture: Building dynamic robots

The finale in the Turing Lecture mini-series exploring the role of AI and data science in our lives post-lockdown.

Speakers:

Open Assisted Living Lab seeks solutions to care sector's COVID-19 crisis

Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Wed, 01/07/2020 - 09:22

Dr Mauro Dragone, Assistant Professor from Heriot-Watt University is one of the scientists launching the open and remote access living lab to research how to create how to create affordable and socially acceptable solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL).

This project is funded by EPSRC and will run for 10 months, ending in April 2021.

More information on the project can be found here.