Professor of Robotics at University of Oxford. I mostly tweet as @dynamicrobots, my research group. European. Irish. Iarmhí Abú!

Joined June 2012
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I have two PhD studentships for 2026. Apply before 13 February!
🚨 2x Funded PhD Projects - Please share! 🚨 PROJECT 1: Long-Term 3D Change Detection of Industrial Facilities • Apply via: RAINZ CDT • UK applicants for £31,000 tax-free stipend plus fees. • Deadline: 13 February Project listing: rainz-cdt.ac.uk/study/projec…
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🛠️ Software Release 🛠️ PlanarMesh is a real-time algorithm for minimal LiDAR mesh reconstruction: github.com/ori-drs/planar_me… PlanarMesh directly estimates planar surfaces with high fidelity and data compactness - 10x smaller than SotA methods.
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The CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems is part of the TechExpert pilot offering stipends of £31,000 for students eligible for home fee status. Join us and help grow the UK’s national capability in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems. aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/study

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🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position on 3D Reconstruction and Mapping! 🕒 Deadline: 27 Nov 2025 📚 Duration: 2 year role 📍 Location: Oxford, UK Focus areas: visual SLAM, semantic segmentation, NeRF/3DGS but also legged robots Apply here: eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detail…
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The candidate has the opportunity to interact with other groups in ORI as well as our collaborators in Seoul National University, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech, Hilti and elsewhere on some very exciting projects. My research group: dynamic.robots.ox.ac.uk/

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Our paper OpenLex3D is accepted to NeurIPS 2025! tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods. Page: openlex3d.github.io/ With thanks to @SachMorin, Martin Büchner, @mmattamala, @kumaraditya_gup, Abhinav Valada, @duckietown_coo & @MauriceFallon
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We had a visit from @oxfordrobots this morning! Reglisse was particularly intrigued at the four-legged competition 🐕🦾
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Closing in week - new post doc position in my group
🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position at @oxfordrobots! I have a new collaborative project working with @DrStephenMellon to further develop our vision-based ultrasound reconstruction system - called ScanLite. Deadline: 8 Sept 2025 Apply here: eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detail…
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DigiForest researchers from @oxfordrobots demonstrating their mapping technology to students of the Summer School on Forest Ecosystems organised by @m_mokros (@3DForEcoTech ) Sruthi Moorthy (@SalGoTeam)
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🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position at @oxfordrobots! I have a new collaborative project working with @DrStephenMellon to further develop our vision-based ultrasound reconstruction system - called ScanLite. Deadline: 8 Sept 2025 Apply here: eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detail…
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The focus is vision-based tracking and ultrasound reconstruction for medical applications Collaborators include @OOEC_Oxford @ndorms as well as clinical partners in @OUHospitals Details on the project dynamic.robots.ox.ac.uk/proj… dynamic.robots.ox.ac.uk/ #slam #3dvision #ultrasound

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It was fantastic to work with Juan Suarez of @ForestryComm in @digiforest_eu. Our team has been working with European partners to develop robot & sensing tech to digitise forests quickly & accurately. Papers: lnkd.in/eFZiJPvi Digiforest website: digiforest.eu/
🌍 | Oxford researchers are using robotics to transform sustainable forest management practices in the pioneering DigiForest project, joining a wider @HorizonEU team with partners across Europe @digiforest_eu. #OxfordClimate | @dynamicrobots | @oxfordrobots | @oxengsci
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Seeing in the Dark: Benchmarking Egocentric 3D Vision with the Oxford Day-and-Night Dataset @ziruiwang_, @wenjing_bian, @li_xinghui, @Yifu_Tao, Jianeng Wang, @MauriceFallon, Victor Adrian Prisacariu tl;dr: egocentric dataset with GT 3D and lighting variation for benchmarking NVS and visual relocalization arxiv.org/abs/2506.04224
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🚨🚨 New #SLAM #RealityCapture Dataset! 🚨🚨 The Oxford Spires Dataset. New mapping benchmark in Oxford's famous colleges and Blenheim Palace focusing on high quality reconstruction (#nerf #gaussiansplatting) and colorization. dynamic.robots.ox.ac.uk/data… #spatialai #oxford
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🚨🚨 Last Reminder: 17 Funded Robotics PhD Positions! 🚨🚨 In the new RAINZ PhD training programme. The deadline for application is 11th February 2025. We have four RAINZ positions at the Oxford Robotics Institute. Details here: ori.ox.ac.uk/rainz

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Program involves 1 yr of training at Uni. of Manchester before moving to Oxford, Glasgow, or Manchester for Yr2-4. Positions will mostly for students from UK and Ireland (🇮🇪!). A fraction can fund internationals students (~30%). Full details on RAINZ: rainz-cdt.ac.uk/
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Reposting: closing in 3 weeks time Note: Oxford recruits faculty at Associate Professor level - we have no Assistant Professor level.
Multiple faculty positions at University of Oxford in @oxengsci - Join Us! Robotics - Computer Vision - Machine Learning Faculty positions in Oxford are typically linked to a college. Please repost!
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Multiple faculty positions at University of Oxford in @oxengsci - Join Us! Robotics - Computer Vision - Machine Learning Faculty positions in Oxford are typically linked to a college. Please repost!
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While applications are sought from across Information Engineering, we (Oxford Robotics Institute) encourage applicants from robotics including, but not limited, to the subfields of: mechanical design (from actuators to whole systems including flying or surgical robots); ...
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... human-robot interaction (social or physical); novel robotic sensor design; and field robotics. Applicants are encouraged to apply for all three positions. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
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