Find out what has been happening recently in the SLMC group. Women in Computing Event: Encouraging Girls across Edinburgh to Consider a Career in Tech Held at St George's School, Edinburgh on 11th December 2024 Papers accepted at Humanoids 2024 Two papers accepted at Humanoids 2024, being held in Nancy, France Paper accepted at 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 6-9 November, 2024, Munich, Germany Launch of two JST-UoE Moonshot Programme Research Projects The University of Edinburgh and Japan Science & Technology (JST) Collaborative Moonshot Projects Congratulations Juan Del Aguila Ferrandis for achieving Master of Research Reinforcement Learning for Non-prehensile Manipulation under Visual Occlusions and Obstacles Congratulations (Dr.) Andreas Christou for a successful PhD Defence Enhancing Gait Rehabilitation Using Robotic Assistance and Functional Electrical Stimulation Humanoid and Exoskeleton research featured in the Channel 5 Documentary Mike Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body Keynote at World Robotics Conference 2024 in Beijing 21-25 August 2024 Beijing, China Papers accepted at ICRA@40 Two papers and a journal accepted at the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA@40), held in Rotterdam Papers accepted at IROS 2024 Two papers and one workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024, being held in Abu Dhabi UoE-DUK Partnership for CoE in AI announced at India's first GenAI Conclave in Kochi GenAI Conclave in Kochi, 11-12 July 2024 AI in Healthcare Workshop Supported by the EU Project HARMONY, The Alan Turing Institute, The National Robotarium and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics ICRA 2024 and ATR Symposium SLMC in Japan, May 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival: Meet the Robots We opened our laboratory to visitors to discover cutting-edge robotic research, meet humanoid robots and learn the ways robots can assist humans. Paper Published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 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 Sir Hugh Cairns Lecture at the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS 2024) 19 April 2024, Edinburgh International Convention Centre (EICC) IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 SLMC and the Alan Turing Institute present five papers and a workshop at ICRA 2024 AIUK Fringe 2024: Lab Open Day Friday 29th March 2024 First Lego League students visit the Lab Friday 23rd February 2024 Published Paper IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) Congratulations to Lei Yan, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Wenfu Xu, Michael Gienger, and Sethu Vijayakumar Professor Vijayakumar delivers Opening Keynote at AI Conference Nepal AI for Prosperous Nepal conference on 3 March 2024 British Council GREAT Talk Session 11 February 2024 at the British Council, Dhaka International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2023 29 November 2023 Waseda Super Global University (SGU) Symposium Keynote Invited speaker at the International Symposium on Machine Intelligence for Future Society 2023 Lecture and live demo at Kawada Final demonstration of Joint Industry Project between Kawada Robotics and University of Edinburgh on 27th Nov 2023, Tokyo HARMONY Assistive Robots for Healthcare 3rd General Assembly EU HARMONY project 3rd General Assembly held 6-8 November 2023 in Lisbon Published Paper Autonomous Robots Congratulations Henrique Ferrolho, Vladimir Ivan, Wolfgang Merkt, Ioannis Havoutis and Sethu Vijayakumar Papers accepted at IROS 2023 Two papers accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023, being held in Detroit. Congratulations (Dr.) Ran Long for successfully passing his DPhil viva Title: Robust SLAM and motion segmentation under long-term dynamic large occlusions Published Paper Royal Society Open Science Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Andreas Christou, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger and Sethu Vijayakumar Congratulations (Dr.) Russell Buchanan for successfully passing his DPhil viva Title: Inertial Learning and Haptics for Legged Robot State Estimation in Visually Challenging Environments Congratulations (Dr.) Traiko Dinev for a successful PhD Defence Title: Concurrent Design and Motion Planning in Robotics using Differentiable Optimal Control Congratulations (Dr.) Jiayi Wang for a successful PhD Defence Title: Online Receding Horizon Planning of Multi-Contact Locomotion IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 SLMC and The Alan Turing Institute present one keynote, five papers and a workshop at ICRA2023 Bayes Centre Tour: Meet the Robots 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. Published Paper IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) Congratulations to Mathew Pollayil, Franco Angelini, Guiyang Xin, Michael Mistry, Sethu Vijayakumar, Antonio Bicchi and Manolo Garabini HARMONY Assistive Robots for Healthcare 2nd General Assembly 7-9 February 2023 ICRA 2023 Embracing Contacts Workshop 2nd June 2023, London Robotics, AI, and Pushing the Frontiers of Human Potential event The National Robotarium, Tuesday 31 January 2023 PhD Studentship in Biomechanically Enabled Robot Support for Assisted Living Closing date 27th January 2023 Best Conference Paper Finalist at IEEE Robio 2022 Congratulations to Andreas Christou, Daniel Gordon, Theodoros Stouraitis and Sethu Vijayakumar Published Paper Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2022) Congratulations to Christopher Mower, Theodoros Stouraitis, Joao Moura, Christian Rauch, Lei Yan, Nazanin Zamani Behabadi, Michael Gienger, Tom Vercauteren, Christos Bergeles and Sethu Vijayakumar MEMMO project winner of Étoiles de l’Europe Horizon 2020 MEMMO project awarded the 12 stars of Europe 2022 DAWN Avatar Robot Cafe Professor Sethu Vijayakumar visits the cafe to see the impact of our collaboration with Kawada Robotics Corporation The Alan Turing Institute-Waseda University MoU signing 14th November 2022, Tokyo, Japan Professor Sethu Vijayakumar invited to present lecture at Waseda University, Japan Monday 14th November 2022 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar at Data Summit 2022 3rd & 4th November 2022 - EICC, Edinburgh University of Edinburgh-Digital University Kerala MoU signing St. James Court, London – 11th October 2022 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar invited speaker at The 8th International Symposium on "Dialogue for Global Innovation" (DFGI-8) Wednesday 5th -Thursday 6th October, London Impact of UKIERI collaborations Professor Sethu Vijayakumar takes part in a short film highlighting the impact of the UKIERI collaborations Papers accepted at IROS 2022 Conference Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2022 Deputy First Minister visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics John Swinney MSP visits The University of Edinburgh Wednesday 24th August 2022 The Turing Lectures: Where next for self-driving vehicles? Tuesday 27 September 2022 ANYmal film features on IEEE Spectrum website 'Video Friday' Professor Sethu Vijayakumar delivers opening keynote of Dev<Talks/> 8th June 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2022), Philadelphia USA Three members of the SLMC team present their work at ICRA 2022 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents keynote speech at Altair Executive Dinner Invited Keynote and Panellist at Altair Executive Dinner & Networking Event Published Paper IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) Congratulations to Christian Rauch, Ran Long, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar Vision Zero Summit Japan 2022 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Shared Autonomy for Dependable Human Robot Interactions' Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk at ADAPT research centre in Dublin 'From Automation to Autonomy: Novel Machine Learning driving the Next-Generation of Robotics’ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) Published Paper Congratulations to Shen Li, Theodoros Stouraitis, Michael Gienger, Sethu Vijayakumar and Julie Shah SLMC welcomes a new Postdoctoral Researcher to the team Dr Saeid Samadi joins the team in Edinburgh BBC Reporting Scotland broadcast with Professor Sethu Vijayakumar How British Sign Language is changing in Computer Science - 28 March 2022 IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter 1st Prize Poster Winners Congratulations Joao Moura, Chris Mower, Christian Rauch, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) Published Paper Congratulations to Daniel Gordon, Christopher McGreavy, Andreas Christou and Sethu Vijayakumar Papers accepted at ICRA 2022 Conference Two SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2022 'Personal AI-based robots as lifetime human companions' - Science AAAS Webinar Wednesday 9th March 2022, 5pm Turing UK-Italy Robotics and AI research collaboration workshop 1st March 2022, Rome Italy Avatar XPrize Finalists 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. IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference 2022 University of Edinburgh 23 February 2022 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar talks at CompSoc Student Society From Automation to Autonomy: Data-driven Machine Learning for Interactive Robotics, 18 February 2022 The Future of Robotics WIRED documentary Professor Sethu Vijayakumar provides his insight into the future of robotics in a four part WIRED documentary India Science Festival 21st January 2022 online event Professor Sethu Vijayakumar presents a talk on 'Future of Automated Robots: How far have we come?'. SLMC welcomes two new PhD students Two new PhD students join the team in Edinburgh Congratulations (Dr.) Christopher Mower for his successful PhD Defence Title: An Optimization-based Formalism for Shared Autonomy in Dynamic Environments IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Journal Article, Volume 29 Congratulations to Carlo Tiseo, Wolfgang Merkt, Keyhan Kouhkiloui Babarahmati, Wouter Wolfslag, Ioannis Havoutis, Sethu Vijayakumar and Michael Mistry Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal Article Volume 142, August 2021 Congratulations to Henrique Ferrolho, Wolfgang Merkt, Carlo Tiseo and Sethu Vijayakumar Papers accepted at IROS 2021 Conference Three SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2021 AI Research in Japan: Challenges at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project - Online Event Professor Sethu Vijayakumar chairs the online event with Professor Sugiyama Masashi, Director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN-AIP) Professor Sethu Vijayakumar at Automatica Sprint 2021 22 June 2021 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society TC Best Paper Award Finalist Title: Online Hybrid Motion Planning for Dyadic Collaborative Manipulation via Bilevel Optimization Minister for Science, Research and Innovation visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Amanda Solloway MP visits The University of Edinburgh Thursday 24th June 2021 Paper accepted at IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2021) Congratulations to Jiayi Wang, Sanghyun Kim, Sethu Vijayakumar and Steve Tonneau Paper accepted at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2021) Congratulations to Chris Mower, Joao Moura and Sethu Vijayakumar Congratulations (Dr.) Daniel Gordon for his successful PhD Defence Title: Exoskeleton-assisted Locomotion Design, Control & Evaluation of Wearable Robotic Devices Avatar XPrize Semi-finalists Members of the SLMC group in collaboration with Touchlab qualify for the USA semi-finals. Congratulations (Dr.) Theodoros Stouraitis for his successful PhD Defence Title: A Dyadic collaborative Manipulation formalism for Optimizing Human-Robot Teaming Congratulations (Dr.) João Moura for his successful PhD Defence Title: Controlling and Learning Constrained Motions for Manipulation in Contact Professor Vijayakumar secures two new Joint Industry Projects (JIP) with HONDA and Kawada Honda and Kawada join the University of Edinburgh in the latest cutting edge research Papers accepted at ICRA 2021 Conference Nine SLMC papers accepted at ICRA 2021 Harmony: Enhancing Healthcare with Assistive Robotic Mobile Manipulation New H2020 Project awarded to enable flexible and safe autonomous mobile manipulation robots for use in human-centred environments. Scotsman Inside Science Professor Sethu Vijayakumar explains how robotics can lend a personal touch to human healthcare ORCA Hub Vlog: Robust Shared Autonomy and Whole Body Motion Control for Loco-Manipulation Professor Sethu Vijayakumar in conversation with Professor David Lane - 24 September 2020 Turing Lecture: Building Dynamic Robots with Boston Dynamics In conversation with Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics: 22 Sep 2020 (3 pm BST) The Ethics of Disruption: Robots can re-boot the world Jericho Roundtable Discussion 4th September 2020 Talos Humanoid arrives in Edinburgh Talos six-foot humanoid robot arrives in Edinburgh Robotics: Science and Systems 2020 SLMC presenting at RSS 12th July 2020 Papers accepted at IROS 2020 Conference Seven SLMC papers accepted at IROS 2020 Professor Sethu Vijayakumar elected fellow of the ELLIS network 'ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap!' World Artificial Intelligence Conference Professor Vijayakumar to talk at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on 10th July 2020. RSE Artificial Intelligence Event From Automation to Autonomy: Collaborative Robots driving the Future of Work AIRS SPOTLIGHT Series Seminar From Automation to Autonomy: Advances in Machine Learning driving Next-gen Robotics Alumni Profiles Alumni Profiles Sethu Vijayakumar at CogX 2020 The CogX Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Breakthrough Technology Papers Accepted at ICRA 2020 Conference Three SLMC papers accepted at ICRA2020. RSE After Hours **CANCELLED** 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. About us About us Professor Vijayakumar at the V&A Dundee Robots Exhibition ‘Hello Robot’ exhibition, V&A Dundee Turing UK-Japan Robotics and AI workshop The first formal workshop as part of a wider UK government announcement relating to new scientific collaborations between UK and Japan. This article was published on 2024-12-08