Sethu Vijayakumar
@sethuvij
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Professor of Robotics @EdinburghUni; Director @EDINrobotics; Programme Director @turinginst; Judge on BBC #robotwars; Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh @news_RSE
Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Tokyo
Joined May 2010
Looking forward to this event today at @japanhouseldn as a follow up of the excellent governmental level discussions we had at @WiltonPark late last year about UK-Japan alignment and the role of digital technologies and embodied AI.
Join a panel discussion in partnership with @InstituteGC on 3 Feb at 18:30 to explore the importance of AI in transforming public services. Chair: @MelanieGarson Speakers: @takehiroohya, @sethuvij and Nijma Khan Book to join the live-stream here: https://t.co/C0TISHfo3M
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Highlighting the recently published paper in Mechatronics by Ke Wang, @guiyangxin, Songyan Xin, @mikemistry, @sethuvij and @Petar_Kormushev 'A unified model with inertia shaping for highly dynamic jumps of legged robots' Full details:
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🌠A huge congratulations to @daniel_fng Andreas Christou @t_stou Michael Gienger & @sethuvij for the recently published @royalsociety paper 'Adaptive assistive robotics: a framework for triadic collaboration between humans and robots'. Further info: https://t.co/HbReGfRLsX
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👏Congratulations to @EDINrobotics (Dr.) Traiko Dinev for passing his #PhD viva 'Concurrent Design and Motion Planning in Robotics using Differentiable Optimal Control'. Thanks to examiners Dr Nicolas Mansard and Dr Michael Mistry. Well done @traikodinev !
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👏Congratulations to (Dr.) Jiayi Wang @jjiayu889 for passing his #PhD viva on 'Online Receding Horizon Planning of Multi-Contact Locomotion'. We are all very excited to see what the future holds for you!
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Super proud!
Congratulations Deepti! 🎉🍀 She's the only girl selected from Scotland to represent the country in an international invitation-only U16 badminton singles tournament held in Japan this summer. 🙌👏🤩 #stgeCommunity #StGeorgesEdinburgh #badminton #U16 #girlsinsport
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Not long now!
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🤖What an amazing day! Thank you to everyone who came along to our open lab tour as part of @EdSciFest last Friday. We hope you all had as much fun as we did! #Robotics #artificalintelligence #research #learning
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It all adds up for Edinburgh's rising teenage badminton star and mathematics ace | Edinburgh News. Great work @stgeorgesedin superstar Deepti!
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
She played lead clarinet in a Christmas concert this month and earlier in 2022 won a UK wide Maths Challenge.
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Future Robotics Organisation, Waseda University and The Alan Turing Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 14 November officially starting the Moonshot programme between the two organisations. #collaborations #Moonshot #robotics @turinginst
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Great talk today by @sethuvij @turinginst @EDINrobotics @EdinRobotML on robotics & AI for assisted living with focus on collaborative/shared autonomy, enriched by reflections on ethical issues, responsibility and explainability. Organised and chaired by @tetsuyaogata1 at Waseda
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We have a fully funded #PhD studentship available in Biomechanically Enabled Robot Support for Assisted Living @EdinburghUni to start January 2023. Application deadline 11th November #PhDpositions #Robotics #studentship #research
https://t.co/wLSRzMOdwb
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Very proud of Deepti’s performance. On the back of winning the Team U18 InterArea representing Lothian last weekend and representing @BadmintonScot at the U15 Europeans in Spain @EdinburghBad @stgeorges_sport
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Had a blast doing this at this theatre steeped in history!
Where next for self-driving vehicles? This was the question discussed at the latest #TuringLecture held at @Ri_Science. Hosted by @sethuvij, @scsharples presented an insightful lecture looking at this topic while highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities faced.
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Today @sethuvij welcomed Deputy First Minister of Scotland John Swinney to our world leading robotics facility at Edinburgh University. This was a welcomed opportunity to showcase our strengths in robotics, AI and data science. @InfAtEd @EDINrobotics
#Robotics #Informatics
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Looking forward to discussing topical issues around #autonomy and #SelfDrivingCars in the historical setting of the @Ri_Science lecture theatres — do take this opportunity to attend this in person. @InfAtEd @EDINrobotics @turinginst
The next #TuringLecture is taking place at the @Ri_Science with @scsharples on where next for #SelfDrivingVehicles hosted by @sethuvij 📆 Tuesday 27 Sept ⏰19:00 - 20:30 📝 https://t.co/EQfGKFdOho
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