Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar was invited to provide key input to two high profile events over the past two months related to UK-Japan Strategic Partnerships and alignment.
Held at St George's School, Edinburgh on 11th December 2024
Two papers accepted at Humanoids 2024, being held in Nancy, France
The University of Edinburgh and Japan Science & Technology (JST) Collaborative Moonshot Projects
Reinforcement Learning for Non-prehensile Manipulation under Visual Occlusions and Obstacles
Enhancing Gait Rehabilitation Using Robotic Assistance and Functional Electrical Stimulation
Mike Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body
Two papers and a journal accepted at the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA@40), held in Rotterdam
Two papers and one workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024, being held in Abu Dhabi
GenAI Conclave in Kochi, 11-12 July 2024
Supported by the EU Project HARMONY, The Alan Turing Institute, The National Robotarium and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
We opened our laboratory to visitors to discover cutting-edge robotic research, meet humanoid robots and learn the ways robots can assist humans.
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
19 April 2024, Edinburgh International Convention Centre (EICC)
SLMC and the Alan Turing Institute present five papers and a workshop at ICRA 2024
Congratulations to Lei Yan, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Wenfu Xu, Michael Gienger, and Sethu Vijayakumar
AI for Prosperous Nepal conference on 3 March 2024
Invited speaker at the International Symposium on Machine Intelligence for Future Society 2023
Final demonstration of Joint Industry Project between Kawada Robotics and University of Edinburgh on 27th Nov 2023, Tokyo
EU HARMONY project 3rd General Assembly held 6-8 November 2023 in Lisbon
Congratulations Henrique Ferrolho, Vladimir Ivan, Wolfgang Merkt, Ioannis Havoutis and Sethu Vijayakumar
Two papers accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023, being held in Detroit.
Title: Robust SLAM and motion segmentation under long-term dynamic large occlusions
Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Andreas Christou, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger and Sethu Vijayakumar
Title: Inertial Learning and Haptics for Legged Robot State Estimation in Visually Challenging Environments
Title: Concurrent Design and Motion Planning in Robotics using Differentiable Optimal Control
Title: Online Receding Horizon Planning of Multi-Contact Locomotion
SLMC and The Alan Turing Institute present one keynote, five papers and a workshop at ICRA2023
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.
Congratulations to Mathew Pollayil, Franco Angelini, Guiyang Xin, Michael Mistry, Sethu Vijayakumar, Antonio Bicchi and Manolo Garabini
The National Robotarium, Tuesday 31 January 2023
Closing date 27th January 2023
Congratulations to Andreas Christou, Daniel Gordon, Theodoros Stouraitis and Sethu Vijayakumar
Congratulations to Christopher Mower, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Christian Rauch, Lei Yan, Nazanin Zamani Behabadi, Michael Gienger, Tom Vercauteren, Christos Bergeles and Sethu Vijayakumar
Horizon 2020 MEMMO project awarded the 12 stars of Europe 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar visits the cafe to see the impact of our collaboration with Kawada Robotics Corporation
Monday 14th November 2022
St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022
Wednesday 5th -Thursday 6th October, London
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations
John Swinney MSP visits The University of Edinburgh Wednesday 24th August 2022
Three members of the SLMC team present their work at ICRA 2022
Invited Keynote and Panellist at Altair Executive Dinner & Networking Event
Congratulations to Christian Rauch, Ran Long, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Shared Autonomy for Dependable Human Robot Interactions'
'From Automation to Autonomy: Novel Machine Learning driving the Next-Generation of Robotics’
Congratulations to Shen Li, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger, Sethu Vijayakumar and Julie Shah
How British Sign Language is changing in Computer Science - 28 March 2022
Congratulations Joao Moura, Chris Mower, Christian Rauch, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar
Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Christopher McGreavy, Andreas Christou and Sethu Vijayakumar
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 5pm
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.
From Automation to Autonomy: Data-driven Machine Learning for Interactive Robotics, 18 February 2022
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar provides his insight into the future of robotics in a four part WIRED documentary
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Future of Automated Robots: How far have we come?'.
Title: An Optimization-based Formalism for Shared Autonomy in Dynamic Environments
Congratulations to Carlo Tiseo, Wolfgang Merkt, Keyhan Kouhkiloui Babarahmati, Wouter Wolfslag, Ioannis Havoutis, Sethu Vijayakumar and Michael Mistry
Congratulations to Henrique Ferrolho, Wolfgang Merkt, Carlo Tiseo and Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar chairs the online event with Professor Sugiyama Masashi, Director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN-AIP)
Title: Online Hybrid Motion Planning for Dyadic Collaborative Manipulation via Bilevel Optimization
Amanda Solloway MP visits The University of Edinburgh
Thursday 24th June 2021
Congratulations to Jiayi Wang, Sanghyun Kim, Sethu Vijayakumar and Steve Tonneau
Congratulations to Chris Mower, Joao Moura and Sethu Vijayakumar
Title: Exoskeleton-assisted Locomotion Design, Control & Evaluation of Wearable Robotic Devices
Members of the SLMC group in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals.
Title: A Dyadic collaborative Manipulation formalism for Optimizing Human-Robot Teaming
Title: Controlling and Learning Constrained Motions for Manipulation in Contact
Honda and Kawada join the University of Edinburgh in the latest cutting edge research
New H2020 Project awarded to enable flexible and safe autonomous mobile manipulation robots for use in human-centred environments.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar explains how robotics can lend a personal touch to human healthcare
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar in conversation with Professor David Lane - 24 September 2020
In conversation with Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics: 22 Sep 2020 (3 pm BST)
Jericho Roundtable Discussion 4th September 2020
'ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap!'
Professor Vijayakumar to talk at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on 10th July 2020.
From Automation to Autonomy: Collaborative Robots driving the Future of Work
From Automation to Autonomy: Advances in Machine Learning driving Next-gen Robotics
Dr Vladimir Ivan appears on Edinburgh: Space Data Capital
The CogX Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Breakthrough Technology
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.
The newest addition to the robotics research lab at the University of Edinburgh
The first formal workshop as part of a wider UK government announcement relating to new scientific collaborations between UK and Japan.
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