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A Pint of Robotics

A Pint of Robotics

A Pint of Robotics is a monthly in-person event, with invited speakers from across the world sharing their exciting research with us! A wide range of topics is discussed, including (but not limited to) Field Robotics, Medical Robotics, Space Robotics, Robot Learning, Drones, Human-Robot Interaction, AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Virtual Reality, etc.

(Logo by Aleks Attanasio).

Season 2024/2025

23 April 2025

Andrea Yanez Trujillo, Conor Farrell-John, Dr James Chandler

05 March 2025

Dr Ben Chong, Yael May, and Dr Luke Tinsley

19 February 2025

Alex Brown, Nikita Murasovs, and Dr Paolo Actis

30 October 2024

Joshua Davy, Sam Wilson, and Daniel Brockdorff

25 September 2024

Ahmet Arif Colakoglu, Dan Davie, and Dr James McLaughlan

Season 2023/2024

19 June 2024

Anna-Grace Linton, Dan Davie, and University of the West Indies

24 April 2024

Emmanuel Loza Galindo, Andy Blight, and James Avery

27 March 2024

Utibe Nkanga, Dr Jon Woolfrey, and Professor Pietro Valdastri

28 February 2024

Junlei Hu, Linyan Han, and Orla Gilson

11 October 2023

Shuaijian Yang, and Benjamin Calmé

20 September 2023

Shengyin Wang, Alessandro Catania, and Nikita Greenidge

Season 2022/2023

21 June 2023

Dr Aiqin Liu, Dr Duygu Sarikaya, and Saul Castañeda Lizarraga

22 March 2023

Sam Wilcock, Rafael Papallas, and Dominic Jones

22 February 2023

Nils Marahrens, Aravinda Srinivasan, and Hendrik Ottman

07 December 2022

Ruby Hornsby, Alistair Bacchetti, and David Russell

19 October 2022

Alexia Toumpa, Luke Tinsley, and Ariana Mazzotta

Season 2021/2022

30 June 2022

This Pint of Robotics will host one speaker from the University of Leeds, Geroge Freeman, and a guest speaker from Vanderbilt University, Margaret Rox. In addition, there will be a mentoring talk from Dr Onaizah Onaizah.

2 November 2021: A new in-person event

This event will be our second in-person event at the Library Pub!
Two speakers from the University of Leeds will be talking about their current research: Muhammad A. Mohd Sharif and Rafael De Castro Aguiar

22 September 2021: Return of the in-person events

For the first time since covid started, this event will be an in-person event at the Library Pub!
Three speakers from the University of Leeds will be talking about their current research: James Martin, Jose Sosa Martinez and Shuhao Dong

Season 2020/2021

19 May 2021: Jan-Nico Zaech, ETH Zürich

Title: From Tracking to Planning: Context Understanding for Autonomous Systems

05 May 2021: Dr Susana Sanchez, Softbank Robotics Europe

Title: Human-Centered Robotics: Towards Assisted and Intuitive Co-Manipulation

21 Apr 2021: Andrey Rudenko, Robert Bosch GmbH – Corporate Research

Title: Human Motion Prediction for Safe and Efficient Operation in Human Environments

7 Apr 2021: Dr Devesh Jha, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Title: A Vision Towards Feedback Robotic Manipulation

24 Mar 2021: Roland Sonsalla, German Research Center for AI (DFKI)

Title: Next Generation Space Robotics and AI

10 Mar 2021: Dr Wolfgang Merkt, University of Oxford

Title: Towards whole-body model predictive control for safe and compliant interaction

24 Feb 2021: Dr Claudio Coppola, Queen Mary University of London

Title: Learning Human Actions: from Perception to Robot Learning

03 Feb 2021: Thendral Govindaraj, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: The role of force-dependent feedback in the regulation of limb impedance and inter-joint coordination

27 Jan 2021: Francesco Del Duchetto, University of Lincoln & Saga Robotics

Title: In-situ learning from human interactions in public spaces

20 Jan 2021: Dr Fabrizio Schiano, EPFL

Title: My journey from single to multi-drone systems

09 Dec 2020: Dr Maria Kyrarini, University of Texas at Arlington

Title: Robot Learning by Motor-Impaired Teachers

25 Nov 2020: Dr Alexandros Kogkas, Imperial College London

Title: Perceptually-enabled interactions towards the Operating Theatre of the Future