Robotic Vision Summer School 2021
Sunday, Jan 31st – Friday, Feb 5th, 2021 For the first time ever, the Robotic Vision Summer School (RVSS) is running as a hybrid live / online event this year. Attendees wil join us online from around the world, and in-person at physical workshop nodes at Australian National University, Queensland University of Technology, Monash University, …
Salah Sukkarieh to present at IFRR Robotics Global Colloquium, 20th Nov, 9a
This Friday Prof Salah Sukkarieh will be presenting at the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) Robotics Global Colloquia. When: Fri 20th of Nov, 9a AEDT Where: Zoom Webinar https://zoom.us/j/96297232099Live questions and discussion via Slido: https://app.sli.do/event/zweecfxzIFRR event site: http://ifrr.org/robotics-and-agricultureThe talk will be recorded, and recordings of others in the series are available here: http://ifrr.org/robotics-global-colloquia Speaker: …
Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh Talk, Nov. 29th 2019
Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh, philosopher of technology, from the University of Vienna will give a talk on « Why should engineers care about robot ethics?l », on Friday, 29th November 2019, at ACFR seminar space (J04), 1pm-3:30pm. In this open-ended workshop with academics and postgraduates in Engineering and robotics at the ACFR and SIRIS, Prof Coeckelbergh will …
RoboCup 2019
Thanks to an elite band of volunteers, the ACFR were able to run a booth at this year’s RoboCup event. RoboCup is an international robotics competition that’s been running for over 20 years. It started out focused on robotic soccer, and has since branched out to include industrial, rescue, and home robotics events. It’s a very …
Droid Racing Teams Win 2nd, 3rd at International Event
Earlier this month our undergraduate droid racing teams took their robots to the international Droid Racing event in Brisbane. In a field of 15 teams from around Australia and New Zealand, they took home 2nd and 3rd place! No videos of the 2019 event is up yet, so here’s a photo and some video from …