TAROS-2010 Conference in Plymouth

The CRNS will host the "TAROS2010 Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems" Conference from August 31 to Septemebr 2, 2010. THis will also include an Industrial Workshop on Service and Personal Robotics. For more information, go to TAROS conference website.

CRNS Inaugural Workshop

The CRNS Inaugural Workshop was be held on November 26-27 2009 at the University of Plymouth. Keynote speakers were

  • Christian Goerick (Chief Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe)
  • Hans-Georg Stork (European Commission, Cognitive Systems Unit)
  • Steve Furber FRS (Manchester University).

 

 

Seminar series

Date Speaker Abstract
23 Mar 2010
Hiroyuki Iizuka (University of Osaka, Japan) Evolution of communications in robots and people
5 Mar 2010
Santo di Nuovo (University of Catania, Italy) Embodied cognition and learning
4 Dec 2009
Torbjorn Dahl (University of Wales Newport) Robotics intelligence research and ROBOTSKIN project
20 Nov 2009
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College London) Integrating Semantics with Interaction
13 Nov 2009
Bill Bigge (University of Sussex) May the force be with you - Torque control and mechanical emulators for cheap robots
30 Oct 2009 Jian Dai (King's College London) Novel Mechanisms and Intuitive Robotic Manipulation
23 Oct 2009
Manuel Lopes (University of Plymouth) Cognitive robotics
27 Oct 2009
Steven Greenberg (Silicon Speech) Time Perspective in Spoken Language

27 May 2009
Chyi-Yeu Jerry Lin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) Development of Autonomous Intelligent Robots: Multifunctional Entertaining Robots, Robot Theatre, and Next Generation Service Robots
6 May 2009
Dr Boris Vladimirskiy (University of Bern, Switzerland) Unsupervised learning of natural stimulus statistics and hierarchical novelty-familiarity representation in the visual cortex
20 mar 2009
Roger Moore (University of Sheffield) Spoken Language Processing: Where Do We Go From Here?
13 Mar 2009
Takashi Hashimoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Grammaticalisation, language evolution and creativity
20 Feb 2009
Michael Meredith (University of Sheffield) Mathematical mechanics of motion
13 Feb 2009
Darren Cosker (University of Bath) Face animation modelling
6 Feb 2009
Sandor Veres (University of Southampton) Engineering the behaviour of autonomous vehicles.
30 Jan 2009
Martin Woolner (University of Plymouth) INNOVATE: 3D scanning, virtual object manipulation and rapid prototyping