We are delighted to issue the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Newsletter for August 2015.
Read about upcoming events, latest news, Robotarium equipment (available to all researchers across the UK) and more!
We hope you enjoy it!
We are delighted to publish the first edition of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Newsletter. We hope you enjoy finding out about what we do at the Centre. We'll publish the ECR newsletter bi-monthly so keep an eye out for our next newsletter in August.
At the beginning of March The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics played host to the BBC's Science editor, David Shukman. He visited both the Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh sites, and got a taste of our current research. It was a great way to showcase the facilities, technology and research that the centre has to offer.
The BBC spent time with a number of academics associated with the centre with Centre co-director Professor David Lane explaining that there is ''a global race to be the country that develops the best smart robots".
In February of this year, Professors David Lane and Sethu Vijayakumar, Directors of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics spent a week in Japan, a visit organised by The British Embassy’s Science and Innovation department. The visit's main objective was to highlight the strength of UK institutions, industries and start-ups to the Japanese market.
On Thursday 18th December, the 2014 Christmas Lecture for the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at Heriot-Watt University, "Human Selves/Robot Selves", was delivered by Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield and Director of Sheffield Robotics.
Profs Ruth Aylett and Nick Taylor in School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University host Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics held its official launch event on Monday 22nd September 2014, at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh. The launch began with a keynote lecture from Professor Andrew Blake, Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research, who spoke on the history of robotics development at Edinburgh-based universities and the challenges and opportunities the new Edinburgh Centre for Robotics faced.