Congratulations to:

1. Boyuan and team for the paper on “Tactile-Guided Dynamic Object Planar Manipulation” ;
2. Fen and team for the RA-L paper on “Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning for Active Object Detection”

accepted at the IROS 2022!

Congratulations to Xiuchao and team on having the paper accepted at CVPR 2022 on CRAFT: Cross-Attentional Flow Transformers for Robust Optical Flow!

Congratulations team on having papers accepted by both RA-L and ICRA 2022:

1. Boyuan et al, Parameterized Particle Filtering for Tactile-based Simultaneous Pose and Shape Estimation;
2. En Yen et al, Hierarchical Point Cloud Encoding and Decoding with Lightweight Self-Attention based Model.

Two recent awards were won by Nicolas and the Collab-AI team:

1. ICSR 2021 Best Presentation Award
2. A*STAR Scientific Conference 2021 Best Poster Award

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Thomas Dudley, who has successfully gained admission for PhD candidacy at Univ. Nottingham with full a scholarship funded by Nottingham and the A*STAR A*RAP scheme! Tom will start his PhD from Dec 2021 onwards under joint supervision with Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz.

Congratulations to Ben Zandonati (Univ. Cambridge) who has been awarded the A*STAR International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) for his 2022 summer research programme at the lab!

Congratulations to

1. Qilong being awarded the project on “Advanced ROS2-native Platform Technologies for Cross-sectorial Robotics Adoption” as a Co-Investigator funded by the MTC Industry Alignment Fund – Pre-positioning.
2. Wenyu being awarded a project each by A*STAR Careers Development Fund and A*STAR Robotics Horizontal Technology Programme Office Seed Fund (Co-I) to work on tactile-guided manipulation and hybrid compliance control.

Congratulations to:

1. Ruihan and Tian for their paper on “On Explainability and Sensor-Adaptability of a Robot Tactile Texture Representation Using a Two-Stage Recurrent Networks” accepted at the main conference;
2. Serena for having her paper on “The consequences of being human-like – an intercultural study” accepted at the IROS 2021 Workshop on Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots

Our papers on 1) dexterous manoeuvre through touch in a cluttered scene; 2) efficient multiview object detection with adaptive action prediction have been accepted for publication at ICRA 2021! Congratulations to the teams!

Congratulations to the project team working in the Collaborative AI Programme WP1 for clinching the “The AAAI-21 Best Demonstration Award”!