Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Sethu Vijayakumar is the Programme Director for Robotics & AI and Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is also a Professor of Robotics at The University of Edinburgh, where he serves as the Director of the Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB). Sethu is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems. Additionally, he is the Founder and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Sethu also holds the position of Non Executive Director at Baillie Gifford. With a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Southern California, Sethu has a strong academic background and experience as an Adjunct Faculty and research assistant professor. Prior to his current roles, he was a Staff Scientist at RIKEN.
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Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Robots have the potential to revolutionise the world's economy and society over the next twenty years, working for us, beside us and interacting with us. The robotics and autonomous systems area has been highlighted by the UK Government in 2013 as one the 8 Great Technologies that underpin the UK's Industrial Strategy for jobs and growth. Heriot-Watt University (Engineering and Physical Sciences, Mathematical and Computer Sciences) and the University of Edinburgh (Informatics, Engineering) are jointly offering an innovative 4 year PhD training programme, drawing on our long standing record of postgraduate education in the robotics and autonomous systems area, and research supervision drawing on our established background in all of the above mentioned areas. This will provide individually tailored course and project portfolios during the first year of the programme, ensuring that all students will have a strong grounding in current theory, methods and applications, with flexibility for strategic individualised study, and strong support leading to a specialised PhD project in subsequent years. A key focus of our Centre is to produce innovation-ready graduates - who can not only make fundamental advances in the theory and development of robotics technology, but also have the skills to take these advances through to achieving impact in the form of new products and new companies. Moreover, the course will develop teamwork and presentation skills and give students a broad appreciation of the ethical issues associated with the Robotics and Autonomous Systems area. The Centre includes the National Robotarium, a world-leading centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, creating innovative solutions to global challenges.