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October 12 2007
Dr Sethu Vijayakumar, director of the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
(IPAB), joined the newly formed technical advisory board.
Dr. Vijayakumar, a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering has research interest spanning a broad
interdisciplinary curriculum involving basic research in the fields of statistical machine learning, motor control,
planning and optimization in autonomous systems and computational neuroscience.
September 25 2007
Edinburgh Robotics joins the EUropean RObotics research Network.
EURON brings together the best European robotics groups and resources
in research, industry and education. It helps to focus European research efforts towards more productive goals.
This happens partly through its community activities supporting the exchange of ideas and techniques,
and partly through identifying topics where research efforts are best spent and advertising them to
scientists and industrial communities so that each can benefit from the expertise of the other.
September 4 2007
Edinburgh Robotics and Communicative
Machines (CMLabs) today announced a new partnership agreement to integrate
their intelligent systems technologies. Under the agreement the two companies
will work to integrate their flagship products, Architecture and Psyclone™.
Edinburgh Robobtics' development platform provides a comprehensive software platform for the development and integration of intelligent systems, from mobile vehicles to smart domestic appliances. The technology helps companies innovate by accelerating their product development, reduce cost by enhancing code re-usability and take advantage of global sourcing through its hardware abstraction model.
CMLabs’ Pysclone AIOS™ is a powerful platform for building complex automation and autonomous systems. Based on a decade of research on small and large-scale artificial intelligence, it is built from the ground up as a new foundation for the construction of complex systems. With powerful support for modular, incremental creation of advanced architectures it is in a class of its own for enabling next-generation robot intelligence.
Edinburgh Robotics' Psygate provides bi-directional integration between the two systems. Psygate translates the platform's data streams into Psyclone messages and vice versa. This allows networks of Psyclone modules to process sensory data from a cluster and to respond with command and control signals. “Their platform provides a powerful foundation for our clients on which to build their Psyclone AIOS applications, with Psygate providing a natural bridge between them. The combined product offering increases the value of each product significantly, presenting a complete solution that would be difficult to obtain in any other way”, says CTO of CMLabs, Thor List.
Joe Halliwell, R&D Director at Edinburgh Robotics is excited by the opportunities which this new agreement will stimulate. “Both CMLabs and Edinburgh Robotics provide complementary infrastructures to facilitate the creation of distributed sensing and control systems; to use an analogy, Psyclone is a toolset for building brains while our framework is a toolset for building nervous systems. Psygate provides a logical interface between our technologies and will assist our clients highly sophisticated, autonomous systems.”
May 4 2007
BRAVEHEART Investments, the Scottish venture capital group, has provided
six-figure investment in a robotics technology company spun out of Edinburgh University.
The investment will allow Edinburgh Robotics to develop global
markets and partnerships. Their technology has already attracted
interest from the automotive, domestic, agricultural and entertainment
industries as well as the academic market.
Media coverage: Scotsman, Electronics Weekly, Growing Business
April 7 2007
Edinburgh Robotics appoint Tony Dunn as Commercial Director for products and services.
This new appointment is part of Edinburgh Robotics expansion plans to develop new markets and lines of business.
Dunn will be working on strategic relationships with key partners and clients in the robotics market.
February 9 2007
DevBot selected by Edinburgh University to form part of their Robotics curriculum.
Edinburgh University completed a technology review of their hardware and development software platform
for teaching Robotics and found that it was inflexible, costly to support and did not provide the
best facilities for teaching robotics. DevBot was trialled for 6 months and was successful in
providing a hardware independent, modular, extensible and supported platform.
posted August 2006
The
University of Edinburgh's Institute for
Perception Action and Behaviour has a variety of links to industry. These
include collaborative research projects as well as spin-off technology transfer
companies. The diversity of these links reflects the broad range of research
conducted in the institute that is highly valued by our commercial
counterparts. Current collaboration includes:
More information about these collaborations can be found on this poster
posted May 2006
The recent success of The University of Edinburgh spin-out companies in a prestigious business
awards scheme has been welcomed by the University’s Principal, Professor Timothy O’Shea.
University of Edinburgh spin-outs scooped nine awards in the SMART: SCOTLAND scheme, which seeks to
help firms turn innovative ideas into viable products. The nine technology-led firms were presented
with their awards by Deputy Enterprise Minister Allan Wilson at a ceremony in Glasgow on
Monday (22 May). The nine winners were Conversatec, Edinburgh Robotics, Ingenza, Lux Biotechnology,
Mobile Acuity, Cereproc, Ice Robotics, Professional Scientific and Pufferfish
posted March 2006
Edinburgh Robotics Ltd has secured an equity investment led by Braveheart Ventures Ltd.
The investment was completed via the SMART Equity Scheme which is designed to help spin-out companies,
by providing matched funding to recipients of the Scottish Executive’s SMART awards.
The funding was provided by Braveheart Ventures in partnership with Bank of Scotland Corporate
through its Emerging Business team, and the Scottish Enterprise Scottish Co-investment Fund