Demonstration programme and map

Below you'll find a floor map of the ground floor of the ISA building, and a list of planned demonstrations.

A guide to the demonstrations:

1. Atrium 

a) MindCuber-RI - Rubik's Cube solving robot.

b) Drawing Robot - Dobot Magician robot arm programmed to draw shapes and text.

c) Machine Vision Technology - Robot perception dual camera demo, see depth perception and object detection in action.

d) Robot teaching across the University - different lecturers explain their course content.

e) Torch/SMAS - Find out about the two ISA cross-cutting challenges 

f) Out reach and pi bits - Colin’s arrangement of various robotic and sensing bit.

2. Quantum Comms Lab

a) Single photo emitter that proves quantum entanglement.

3. Test Space 2

a) How robots can imitate our actions - John Bateman.

b) Removal tasks for robotic hand - Liman Wang and Hanyang Zhong.

c) Robotic chemistry (TORCH) - Jonathon Pipe.

d)  DAISY Project - Diagnostic AI System for Robot-Assisted A&E Triage - Radu Calinescu and Georgia Sowerby

4. Underwater Lab

a) Sonic comms - Using sound waves underwater as a communication channel in our custom water tank. 

5. Simulation and Robot lab

a) ARE - Autonomous Robotic Evolution, how a robot can evolve, be constructed and be appraised all automatically. Demonstrations at: 13:00, 13:40, 14:20, 15:00

c) Turtlebots 3 - Small swarm of ROS robots able to manipulate coloured pucks.

c) Mark Post and his research team - various sets of robots that show off tensegrity and adaptive control systems.

6. Technical Workshop 

a) Open for people to see our facilities.

7. Test Space 1

a) Husky deleaf - Automated sampling using a Husky with a saw to collect plant cuttings. Demonstrations at: 13:15, 14:00, 14:45

b) Unitree dog - Demo of it moving and functions.

c) Dual arm fabric - Two UR5 arm combined with depth cameras to manipulate a t-shirt.

8. Outside

a) Drone demo over solar farm - DJI flight over panel for automated inspection purposes (weather dependent).