Connected Everything and Smart Products Beacon Summer School 2020
May 27, 2020
Connected Everything and the Smart Products Beacon (University of Nottingham) are jointly running an online Summer School on 15-17 July 2020 focused on the use of collaborative robots (COBOTs) in a COVID-19 world. The summer school will be delivered online and there will be no charge to participants as our funding from EPSRC will cover the costs. The challenges …
ICUBE
May 4, 2020
Collaborative robots – or co-bots – currently rely on physically mechanical, hierarchical instructions delivered explicitly by humans, without consideration to other important characteristics – pose, expression and language. Co-bots therefore lack the ability to sense humans and their behaviour appropriately. I-CUBE has been addressing this challenge and initiated a study to capture the language and gestures used by humans whilst collaborating with robots conducting a simple laundry sorting task. The …
