ARIA Robot Manipulation Gathering

​Join us for a day of networking and collaboration with the ARIA Smarter Robot Bodies team and Robot Dexterity programme Creators on the 8th of January.

​This event is designed to be a space for high impact and dynamic discussion following on from the UK Robot Manipulation Workshop on the 6th and 7th of January.

​Agenda:

• ​​​​8.30-9.30am - Breakfast

• ​9.30-9.35am - Introductions from ARIA

• ​​​9.35-11.00am: Session 1 (Theme: Tactile Sensing)

  • ​​​​Presentations (35 mins):

  • ​Vladimir Ivan (TouchLab)

  • ​​​​Jenny Read (ARIA)

  • ​​​​Panel (45 mins - Theme: Common Language for Tactile Sensing):

  • ​​​​Nathan Lepora (The University of Bristol)

  • ​​​​Shan Luo (King's College London)

  • ​Jenny Read (ARIA)

  • ​Vladimir Ivan (TouchLab)

  • ​Moderator: Radhika Gudipati (ARIA)

• ​11.00 - 11.30: Coffee Break

• ​​​​11.30-12.30pm: Session 2 (Theme: Visioning the Future)

  • ​​​​Theme based group activity concluding with a debrief

• ​​12.30 - 2.00pm: Lunch

• ​​​​2.00-3.00pm: Session 3 (Theme: Modularity & Interoperability)

  • ​​​​Presentation (15 mins):

  • ​​​​Will Summerfield & Lucas Cannon

  • ​​​​Panel (40 mins):

  • ​​​​Karol Janik (Manufacturing Technology Centre)

  • ​​​​Mehmet Dogar (University of Leeds)

  • ​​Ingo Keller (The National Robotarium)

  • ​​​​Moderator: Adam Norton (University of Massachusetts)

• ​​​​3.00-4.00pm: Session 4 (Theme: World Models for Robots)

  • ​​​​Presentation (15 mins):

  • ​​​​Ingmar Posner (University of Oxford)

  • ​​​​Panel (40 mins):

  • ​​​​Subramanian Ramamoorthy (The University of Edinburgh)

  • ​​​​Ingmar Posner (University of Oxford)

  • ​​Dandan Zhang (Imperial College)

  • ​​​​Moderator: Radhika Gudipati (ARIA)

• ​​​​4.00pm: Wrap Up and Goodbye

​About ARIA: The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) is an R&D funding agency created to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Created by an Act of Parliament, and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, ARIA funds teams of scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of what is scientifically and technologically possible.