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
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
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
10 Feb 2021: Ted Varley, CEO & Founder of Covvi
Title: How to design Hands
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