YorRobots seminar series

Biomimetic controllers and tactile sensors are introduced to improve robot skill learning from demonstrations, enabling compliant manipulation and shared control for efficient, human-like teleoperation and collaboration.

This talk presents advances in assistive robotics, focusing on adapting large models for scene understanding, learning robot actions via flow matching, sim-to-real deformable manipulation, and multi-modal learning.

The philosophy of robotics is needed to explore the practice of designing and building robots, addressing topics like progress, values, imagination, collaboration, and the evolving skills of roboticists.

This talk explores the role of tactile pixels in robot tactile sensing, covering developments in optical tactile sensors and advancements in simulating tactile interactions and integrating visual-tactile perception for dexterous manipulation.

This talk will present the efforts to unify robot modelling, control, and planning using a single mathematical language and applications to surgical robots, mobile manipulators, and cooperative robotic systems.

This talk presents advances in autonomous drone decision-making and control using machine learning, focusing on single-drone control and multi-drone coordination.

Modular reconfigurable systems are key for space robotics and these systems need decentralized, adaptable communication protocols that work across physical and protocol levels and integrate new components.

Dr Calum Imrie will give an overview about the practicalities of deploying autonomous systems

Dr. Hyung Jin Chang will present his research on human-centred visual learning, the primary goal is to create vision-based algorithms that prioritise the usability and usefulness of AI systems by addressing human needs and requirements.

Dr Edward Johns will present his research from the past year in his lab which aims towards more practical robot learning without huge data requirements.

Professor Mehmet Dogar will present their work on robotic object manipulation, particularly, robot motion planners and controllers that use predictions about the motion of contacted objects.

Dr Babar Jamil will present the work in designing new robotic systems that share the physical features of soft and rigid structures, thereby, taking advantage of compliance of soft actuation and accuracy of rigid structures.

Prof. Charlie C. L. Wang will develop the fundamental challenges in soft robotics and will introduce solutions to these.

Dr Jihong Zhu will develop the fundamental challenges and promising applications in deformable object manipulation.

Professor Emma Hart discusses challenges in manufacturing robots autonomously, and proposes methods to address these.

An introduction to The National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics.

Presentations from Professor Dr. A.E. Eiben on evolving real robots for engineering and research, and Kennedy Edeye on the use of Robotics in the management and conservation of the Pemba Channel seafloor, Tanzania.

Dr Annette Zimmermann will develop three arguments for why scrutinizing available decision landscapes matters in our pursuit of algorithmic fairness.

Themis Prodromakis presents the challenges in manufacturing and using new AI technologies and examples on how these can be used in practical applications: from bio-electronic medicines to 'AI on a chip' solutions.

The area of autonomous systems is expanding at an incredible rate, with Human Machine teaming systems appearing in a number of very different sectors.