The Royal Academy of Engineering is delighted to announce that Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of @UniStrathclyde, has been nominated as the next President of the Academy. Find out more: bit.ly/2SyxREq#RAEngFellows
Speaking of Lego, we had 150 students using it to implement Monte Carlo Localisation today... Always my favourite part of the Robotics course here at Imperial!
Really excited to announce that our London based startup Synthesia has just come out of stealth with a demo of our language dubbing technology. Very proud of being part of this brilliant team!
youtu.be/PhZpnDqNNmYsynthesia.io/
Just sharing Fusion again because I have the feeling that not everyone who needs to has seen it yet ;) We in the Dyson Robotics Lab think this is a huge advance in the capabilities of general object-based SLAM. #SpatialAI
Fusion : Volumetric Object-Level SLAM
In SLAM, we think that the hardest question is still finding the right representation. See this new work from the Dyson Robotics Lab where we make a graph map of arbitrary objects.
youtu.be/2luKNC03x4k via @YouTube
The next UK Robot Manipulation Workshop will be held at the University of Leeds on 9-10th April 2019. This follows on from the last iteration which was run last year here at Imperial Ed Johns. Nice to see the strong UK community in this area!
robot-manipulation.uk/
Thanks a lot to Rob Deaves from Dyson who came in to give a great guest lecture in my robotics course on robotics in the real world and the story of the Dyson 360 Eye!
Our CEO, @nicholsonowen, is in Silicon Valley today for @PlugandPlayTC's Winter Summit 2018 where he'll give a 3 minute pitch to executives and entrepreneurs. Good luck Owen! Catch the live stream here at 1:51PM PST. hubs.ly/H0fPdtZ0
Very exciting that this leadership in new processor technology has come out of the UK, and especially that they are now openly talking about embedded processors. #SpatialAIarxiv.org/abs/1803.11288
Graphcore closes a new $200 million funding round which values the company at $1.7 billion and brings the total capital raised to over $300 million
graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore…