The Digital Health and Care Festival

  The Assisted Living Lab joined the Digital Health and Care Fest in Glasgow, to present their research to the public. The members of the lab engaged with a very enthusiastic crowd, curious about the robots and their potential for healthcare. From Pepper’s important role in rehabilitation and companionship, to the playful and watchful Miro,…

Unlocking the Potential of Soft Robotics with the Robotic Operating System

Building your own soft robots can be a daunting task for someone just setting out. Even after building the robot you still need to sort out control systems and software to get it working. Our work on open-source tools for soft robotics is paving the way for the easy adoption of soft robotics by those…

European Robotics League for Service Robots

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (ECR) hosted its first European Robotics League for Service Robots (ERL-SR). The competition took place in Heriot-Watt University’s custom-built living laboratory. I volunteered to be part of the refereeing team. Hosting the competition was a great chance to find out more about the technical requirements, time commitments and the intensity of…

IET ENGFEST

Vibhav Bharti, James Horn and I travelled to the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s headquarters in London to represent the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at their recent Festival of Engineering. The IET headquarters are very beautiful, with a statue of Faraday on the outside and a modern LED display in the inner lobby which contrasts…

Why should women choose a career in Robotics?

Why is gender diversity in robotics important? It’s an issue that is very personal to me as a woman in STEM. I’m hoping to use this blog post to reach out to women to join me, layout some reasons why I think robotics could be a great career for you and highlight why the industry…

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at the Science Festival

Writes James Garforth After an amazing experience volunteering at the Edinburgh International Science Festival last year, I decided that for 2016 I would put together an event of my own. I contacted the EISF, met with them to discuss what was involved, got the approval of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics executive board and set…

Using the Robotarium Cluster: Part 1

Introduction Over the summer and early fall of last year (2014) I got the opportunity to use a cluster to run some of my experiments for my master’s thesis. The experiments revolved around collecting performance metrics for varies benchmarks as part of a comparison between two different types of multi-threaded platform agnostic programming languages. The…

Why I chose the Robotics CDT

Writes Jonathan Bowles Hello and welcome to the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics student blog! My name’s Jonathan and I’m one of the first-year (Masters level) students in the centre. I want to talk to you about my experiences of the programme so far, my research project and why I think Edinburgh is a great place…

Welcome to our Student Blog

Welcome to the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Student Blog Read about our students’ current experience in Edinburgh as CDT students. They will describe their classes, research projects, what they do on their free time and what it’s like settling in Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Our writers are CDT in Robotics & Autonomous…