| | | 1- Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500
Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 January 12, 2021 10:00 am - April 2, 2021 5:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA, USA See more details - Startup Accelerator Meetings
- Startup Accelerator Meeting
- SVR Startup Pitch Workshop
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Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 January 12, 2021 10:00 am - April 2, 2021 5:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA, USA See more details - Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee
Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 2, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details • • | 3- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details • | 4- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details • |
5- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details - SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021
SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 5, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details • • | 6- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details • | 7- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details - Bots&Beer Silicon Valley
Bots&Beer Silicon Valley April 7, 2021 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm See meetup for location See more details • • | 8- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details - SVR Board Meeting
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National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details - "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" - Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University)
"Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" - Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University) April 9, 2021 11:00 am - 12:30 pm https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University)Abstract: Effective communication is key to successful multi-agent coordination. Yet it is far from obvious what, how and when information needs to be shared among agents that aim to solve cooperative tasks. In this talk, I discuss our recent work on using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to solve multi-agent coordination problems. In my first case-study, I show how we use GNNs to find a decentralized solution to the multi-agent path finding problem, which is known to be NP-hard. I demonstrate how our policy is able to achieve near-optimal performance, at a fraction of the real-time computational cost. Secondly, I show how GNN-based reinforcement learning can be leveraged to learn inter-agent communication policies. In this case-study, I demonstrate how non-shared optimization objectives can lead to adversarial communication strategies. Finally, I address the challenge of learning robust communication policies, enabling a multi-agent system to maintain high performance in the presence of anonymous non-cooperative agents that communicate faulty, misleading or manipulative information. Biography: Amanda Prorok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her mission is to find new ways of coordinating artificially intelligent agents (e.g., robots, vehicles, machines) to achieve common goals in shared physical and virtual spaces. Amanda Prorok has been honored by an ERC Starting Grant, an Amazon Research Award, an EPSRC New Investigator Award, an Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Award, and the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Award for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science. Further awards include Best Paper at DARS 2018, Finalist for Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper at ICRA 2017, Best Paper at BICT 2015, and MIT Rising Stars 2015. She serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), and Associate Editor for Autonomous Robots (AURO). Prior to joining Cambridge, Amanda Prorok was a postdoctoral researcher at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland. Stream at: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html See more details • • | 10- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details • | 11- National Robotics Week
National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details • |
12- SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021
SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 12, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details • | | | 15- European Robotics Forum
- Startup Accelerator Meetings
- Startup Accelerator Meeting
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19- SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021
SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 19, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details • | 20 | 21- Online Robotics Job Fair
Online Robotics Job Fair April 21, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-robotics-job-fair-tickets-104585977474 See more details • | 22- Startup Accelerator Meetings
- Startup Accelerator Meeting
- SVR Startup Accelerator
• • • | 23- Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee
Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 23, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details - Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley)
Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley) April 23, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm See more details • • | 24 | |
26- SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021
SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 26, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details • | 27- Society, Robots and Us: Hiring for Inclusive Robotics
Society, Robots and Us: Hiring for Inclusive Robotics April 27, 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm https://societyrobotsandus.eventbrite.com See more details • | 28 | 29- Startup Accelerator Meetings
- Startup Accelerator Meeting
- SVR Startup Accelerator
• • • | 30- Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee
Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 30, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details • | | |
Why we need a robot registry | context
Robots are rolling out into the real world and we need to meet the emerging challenges in responsible fashion but one that doesn’t block innovation. At the recent ARM Developers Summit 2020 I shared my suggestions for five practical steps that we could undertake at a regional, national or global level as part of the Five Laws of Robotics presentation (below).
The Five Laws of Robotics are drawn from the EPSRC Principles of Robotics, first developed in 2010 and a living document workshopped by experts across many relevant disciplines. These five principles are practical and concise, embracing the majority of principles expressed across a wide range of ethics documents. I will explain in more detail.
EPSRC says that robots are multi-use tools. Robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans, except in the interests of national security. More information is at the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
Humans, not robots, are the responsible agents. Robots should be designed and operated as far as is practicable to comply with existing laws and fundamental rights and freedoms, including privacy.
Robots are products. They should be designed using processes which assure their safety and security. Quality guidelines, processes and standards already exist.
Robots are manufactured artefacts. They should not be designed in a deceptive way to exploit users, instead their machine nature should be made transparent.
It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robot. My suggestion here is that robots in public spaces require a license plate; a clear identification of robot and the responsible organization.
As well as speaking about Five Laws of Robotics, I introduced five practical proposals to help us respond at a regional, national and global level.
Silicon Valley Robotics is about to announce the first winners of our inaugural Robotics Industry Awards. The SVR Industry Awards consider the responsible design as well as technological innovation and commercial success. There are also some ethical checkmark or certification initiatives under preparation, but like the development of new standards, these can take a long time to do properly, whereas awards, endorsements and case studies can be available immediately to foster the discussion of what constitutes good robots and what are the social challenges that robotics needs to solve.
In fact, the robot registry suggestion was picked up recently by Stacey Higginbotham in the IEEE Spectrum. Silicon Valley Robotics is putting together these policy suggestions for the new White House administration.
I have been writing about topics like this on The Robot State site since 2007 (when I get time :).
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Robotics Analyst/Strategist