We are pleased to announce our participation in the distributed robot interaction dataset (DROID) international collaboration. As part of this effort, our group collected teleoperated robot demonstration data using a custom-designed DROID platform, and participated in software development for the DROID workflow. The DROID initiative contributes towards a broader community effort to create open-source robotics datasets, as seen in the Open-X-Embodiment project. You can read more about DROID here and Open-X-Embodiment here.
14th March, 2024This news article describes our ongoing work in the area of surgical skill quantification, work that is part of the PhD thesis research of Arturas Straizys.
10th October, 2023We are pleased to announce the publication of Artūras' paper in Communications Engineering, a Nature portfolio journal. This paper entitled "A generative force model for surgical skill quantification using sensorised instruments" describes a new model and experiment to bring out the crucial role of characterising force profiles in the evaluation of surgical skills. You can read more here.
26th June, 2023Congratulations to Jay Park whose paper at IWCS 2023 conference has been recognised as the best long paper. You can read this paper entitled "Interactive acquisition of fine-grained visual concepts by exploiting semantics of generic characterizations in discourse" here.
26th June, 2023We look forward to attending ICRA next week. In addition to papers by Arturas Straizys and Craig Innes, Prof Ramamoorthy will give invited talks at the following workshops: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Co-Creating Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Explainable Robotics.
27th May, 2023Gautier Dagan (supervisors Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller), Rimvydas Rubavicius, and Jay Park (supervisors Alex Lascarides, Ram Ramamoorthy) participated in IGLU Challenge: NLP Task finishing in 4th place and received a research prize. See here for further details about the competition.
1st December, 2022Prof. Ramamoorthy will be giving a talk as part of the Robot Learning Seminar Series at Imperial College London, on Friday 2nd Dec 2023. His talk is entitled, "Towards a holistic view of learning from demonstration: Case studies involving dexterous manipulation". See here for further details.
1st December, 2022Prof. Ramamoorthy will participate in a Panel briefing on AI and Accountability, organised by Scotland's Futures Forum in the Scottish Parliament on 22nd June 2022. This discussion with MSPs and parliamentary staff will focus on tools to support AI's proper use and what happens when decisions made by algorithm do not work as intended: who is accountable and how are they held accountable?
16th June, 2022Prof. Ramamoorthy contributed to a podcast, as part of a series on Scotland's AI strategy. The podcast acts as a teaser for the upcoming event organised by the University of Edinburgh, the Bayes Centre, and The Alan Turing Institute that aims to bring together the UK AI community to develop a vision and roadmap for future AI research.
8th March, 2022Prof. Ramamoorthy will be chairing a session at the Scottish AI Summit, on “What does AI offer people as they get older and what is the role of co-design?”. This session is related to the work of the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) and the UKRI Research Node on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation.
8th March, 2022Arturas Straizys, PhD student in our group, will participate in a panel on "Coping with Covid: adapting your project to work during COVID", at the SICSA Conference 2021 held on 13th and 14th September. Further details here.
6th September, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy will participate in a panel on Autonomous Vehicles: Trust, Commercialization and Technological Innovation, at the OxTech Fest 2021, on Wed 8th Sep 2021. The panel will explore the interplay between autonomous vehicles technology and broad discussions in the artificial intelligence community around trustworthiness. Further information here.
6th September, 2021Congratulations to Paola Ardón for the Best Workshop Presentation Award at the ICRA 2021 Workshop on Learning for Caregiving Robots, for the paper on Affordance-aware handovers with human arm mobility constraints.
1st June, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy will give a talk as part of the Φ-ML meets Engineering seminar series, organised through the Alan Turing Institute. His talk, on 3rd June at 1 pm, will be on Online and hybrid system identification directly from raw sensory signals.
31st May, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy will give a talk in the Multi-Agent Systems seminar series within the Turing Institute, at 10:30 am on 20th May 2021. This talk will give an overview of the UKRI Research Node on TAS Governance and Regulation, along with Prof Helen Hastie from Heriot Watt University who will speak about the Research Node on Trust.
12th May, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy was interviewed for the Living With AI Podcast, in his capacity as the Principal Investigator of the UKRI Research Node on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation, and drawing on his experience with Five AI. The topic of the interview is “Would you trust a driverless car?” You can listen to the podcast here here.
3rd May, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy will give a talk in this conference, organised by the Edinburgh Student Surgical Society (ESSS), on 13th March 2021. The theme of this year's conference is 'Robotics & Surgery'. Click here for further information.
8th March, 2021Prof Ramamoorthy will give a talk in seminar series of the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln. This seminar, entitled "Learning at different levels of a hierarchy for dexterous manipulation" is scheduled for the 24th Feb 2021.
11th February, 2021We are pleased to have been awarded a grant under the Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness scheme of the Royal Academy of Engineering, for work on COVIBOT: Robotic Strategies for Monitoring and Disinfection of COVID-19 environments. This will enable collaborative work with robotics and clinical academics from Latin America, including Profs. Cifuentes & Ramirez (Colombia), Becker(Brazil), Carelli(Argentina) and Barria (Chile).
7th July, 2020Subramanian Ramamoorthy will describe our work as part of the Turing-sponsored sAIfer surgery initiative, addressing how robots can be used in surgical assistance. Sign up and infomation about this event on 27th May 2020 can be found here. This follows an earlier talk by Michael Burke in the same series, on 27th Apr 2020.
15th May, 2020Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be giving a talk on Learning structured models for safe robot control at the International Workshop on Intelligent Robot Teammates for Complex Missions in Unstructured Environments, held at IIT Delhi, India during 5-6 March, 2020.
23rd February, 2020Congratulations to Stefanie Speichert for the Best Student Paper Award in the long papers track at the ILP'19 Conference, for the paper on Learning Probabilistic Logic Programs over Continuous Data. You can find more information on this paper here.
1st December, 2019Congratulations to Yordan Hristov, Daniel Angelov, Michael Burke, Alex Lascarides and Subramanian Ramamoorthy for the Best Paper Runner-up Award at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2019), for their paper on Disentangled Relational Representations for Explaining and Learning from Demonstration. You can find more information on this paper here.
4th November, 2019Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be speaking at New Scientist Live, the award-winning festival of ideas and discoveries, taking place at the ExCeL centre in London. His talk, entitled "How will we make intelligent robots safe?" is scheduled on 12th Oct 2019. For further details, follow this website.
7 October, 2019Subramanian Ramamoorthy will give a seminar talk on Learning structured models for safe robot control?, as part of his visit to Microsoft Research on 27th Sep 2019.
27 September, 2019Subramanian Ramamoorthy will take part in a panel on 20th July at the Manchester International Festival as part of the Interdependence Ideas programme. The panel, hosted by the Australian human rights lawyer, broadcaster and writer, Lizzie O'Shea, will discuss various aspects of intelligent technologies & human fallibility. Further information available here.
12th July, 2019Subramanian Ramamoorthy will give a talk entitled Programmatically Structured Representations for Robust Autonomy in Robots in the Data Science Seminar Series at the Oxford Mathematical Institute, on 8th March 2019.
4th March, 2019Subramanian Ramamoorthy will give a research seminar at the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), on 5th Nov 2018, talking about our recent work on Explainability and Safety in Intelligent Robots.
28th October, 2018Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be delivering an invited talk at the High Integrity Software Conference 2018, taking place in Bristol on 6th Nov 2018. He will address the topic of how we can achieve safe interactions with intelligent robots. Further information available here.
28th October, 2018Dr Ramamoorthy will present at the CAV Scotland 2018 meeting, held here in Edinburgh on the 1st Nov 2018, giving a talk entitled “Towards safe autonomy in driverless cars”. Further information available here.
28th October, 2018Emmanuel Kahembwe will give a talk at the UK Financial Conduct Authority on the topic of AI: Explainability and Bias. The talk is scheduled for 2 pm on 29th June 2018, at FCA's London office. In addition to discussing how recent developments in AI (and in particular deep learning) relate to explainability and bias, he will also cover how policy and regulation could enacted to encourage activity in responsible AI.
29th June, 2018Yordan Hristov and Emmanuel Kahembwe will present posters on their research work at the upcoming BMVA Symposium on Robotics meets Semantics: Enabling Human-Level Understanding in Robots, taking place on 18th July 2018 in London. Further information available here.
28th May, 2018Subramanian Ramamoorthy will speak at the BMVA Symposium on RL in Computer Vision, to be held at the British Computer Society, London on 9th May 2018. This talk will also be on the topic of Programming by Discussion: New Tools for Human-Robot Interaction. Further details are available at here.
9th May, 2018Emmanuel Kahembwe and Yordan Hristov will be giving a demonstration at NIPS showing the usage of language and visual cues for the purpose of interactive multi-modal symbol grounding. The demonstration is titled Symbol Grounding and Program Induction using Multi-modal instructions, Visual Cues and Eye Tracking. More information is available here.
1st December, 2017Subramanian Ramamoorthy will give a talk at Conduent Labs India on 1st August 2017 and at the Indian Institute of Science on 2nd August 2017, describing The program induction route to explainable AI.
29th July, 2017Emmanuel Kahembwe is taking part in the 2016-17 Amazon Alexa AI Prize Challenge as part of The Edinburgh University team Edina. Team Edina was one of 12 teams from around the world to receive $100k sponsorship, to build a socialbot that can engage people in conversation. The challenge now is to turn their proposal into the highest-performing socialbot in the competition with a final prize of $1.5million. More information is available here.
21st June, 2017We have been awarded a new project within the DARPA Explainable AI programme, to be kicked off next week. Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be a Principal Investigator, leading technical tasks on hierarchical policy learning and program induction. We will be recruiting for a postdoctoral research associate shortly - watch this space.
7th May, 2017Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be a panelist at the The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Climate Change in a Connected World event at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Hosted by resident MC Susan Morrison, this special edition of The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas will bring together academics, activists and comedians to pitch their visions of the future, explaining their views on the impact of climate change and their predictions for human interaction in our increasingly connected world. Further details are available here.
8th April, 2017Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be giving a talk as part of the first ATI workshop on applied algebraic topology, on 24th March 2017. His talk entitled Hierarchical Estimation and Learning via Topology will discuss our work on topological trajectory classification, as well as try to make connections between this and our work on classifying decision processes for the construction of hierarchical policies. Further details are available here.
24th March, 2017Martin Asenov will be giving a talk as part of TechMeetup Edinburgh at Skyscanner on 8th March 2017. He will be discussing Gaussian Processes: the theory behind them and example applications. (Updated: recording now available here)
8th March, 2017Subramanian Ramamoorthy will speak as part of the CITRIS People and Robots Seminar Series at the University of California at Berkeley on 26th October 2016. His talk is entitled Understanding Others: Robot Learning in Interactions and further details are available here.
26th October, 2016Subramanian Ramamoorthy will speak at the University of Texas at Austin on 29th August, 2016, in the Forum for Artificial Intelligence organised by the Department of Computer Sciences. This talk will also be on the topic of Representations and Models for Collaboratively Intelligent Robots, including updated results from recent work. Further details are available at here.
29th August, 2016Subramanian Ramamoorthy will be giving a talk as part of this series within the Stanford AI Laboratory, on 10th June 2016. He will be discussing recent results from the RAD group on Representations and Models for Collaboratively Intelligent Robots. Further details are available here.
10th June, 2016We are helping organise a workshop at ICRA aimed at popularising the use of emerging topological techniques in robotics, also seeking to encourage collaboration between the computational geometry and robotics communities. The workshop will be held on 20th May 2016, in Stockholm. Please see the workshop website for further details.
20th May, 2016