News and Events

Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group.

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

21-25 August 2024 Beijing, China

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

Supported by the EU Project HARMONY, The Alan Turing Institute, The National Robotarium and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

SLMC in Japan, May 2024

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

Friday 29th March 2024

Friday 23rd February 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

11 February 2024 at the British Council, Dhaka

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

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

3rd & 4th November 2022 - EICC, Edinburgh

St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations

Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2022

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

Dr Saeid Samadi joins the team in Edinburgh

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

Two SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2022

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.

University of Edinburgh 23 February 2022

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?'.

Two new PhD students join the team in Edinburgh

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

Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2021

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

Nine SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2021

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

Talos six-foot humanoid robot arrives in Edinburgh

SLMC presenting at RSS 12th July 2020

Seven SLMC papers accepted at IROS 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

Alumni Profiles

The CogX Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Breakthrough Technology

Three SLMC papers accepted at ICRA2020.

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.

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‘Hello Robot’ exhibition, V&A Dundee

The first formal workshop as part of a wider UK government announcement relating to new scientific collaborations between UK and Japan.