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Australian 🇦🇺 academics: if you have experienced months-long delays for postdoc or HDR student visas, please indicate this here (and spread/retweet this)? Hoping to finally elicit a response (and meaningful action) from this government. Cc/ Jason Clare MP #Academia #Research

Do you want simple model adaptation to new contexts for free? Check out our #CoRL2022 paper "Adapting Neural Models with Sequential Monte Carlo Dropout", a two-step, simple and effective model adaptation approach using multi-task training and dropout masks!

Update: no update. Thousands of #PhD students are still waiting for their #Australian #visa in the dark. No visibility or timeline provided. For many, it has been years. (Years!) Clare O'Neil MP, Jason Clare MP, please solve this. Australia has so much to lose! cc/ Mehreen Faruqi

Looking forward to attending IEEE ICRA where we'll present work with Artūras Straižys & Michael Burke on LfD for soft tissue manipulation - an essential primitive for medical robotics. See: arxiv.org/abs/2209.12039 Work done at Edinburgh Robotics School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh The Alan Turing Institute

Our core contribution here is the ability to inject nonholonomic constraints into learned motion primitives. This helps clean up violations at demo time, for example if a scalpel blade accidentally twists against the flow of motion while cutting.

Chat to Artūras Straižys about nonholonomic dmps and robot cutting at WePO1S-07.7 09:00-10:40 Pod Number: Pod 14 today #icra2023

Dingo is a really cool quadruped project by Alex and Nathan, undergrads Monash Engineering Monash University Code, cad and electronics are all open sourced for you to make you own youtu.be/8KntOIgzUjY

A study in @commseng reports a generative model of excision force along with a novel sensorised scalpel to enable data collection and analysis of manipulation skill during surgical procedures Artūras Straižys Michael Burke S Ramamoorthy nature.com/articles/s4417…

With seemingly endless progress in AI, I decided over the past few months to take a deep dive into the state of robotics 🤖, emerging trends, and research challenges. What do actual field-deployed robotic systems look like now? Will LLMs solve robotics? irom-lab.princeton.edu/wp-content/upl… 🧵

A news article covering our recent work on surgical skill quantification (doi.org/10.1038/s44172…) Edinburgh University develops 'smart' scalpel which measures force to help hone doctors' surgical skills ⁦Artūras Straižys⁩ Michael Burke⁩ School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh⁩ news.stv.tv/east-central/e…

Professor Ram Ramamoorthy School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh have developed a "smart" scalpel with integrated sensors that could be used to train surgeons. 🔗 Read more: edin.ac/46pgeZp #SurgicalSkillQuantification Artūras Straižys S Ramamoorthy Michael Burke

Excited to have our ARC DP on Human models for accelerated robot learning and human-robot interaction funded. Dana Kulic, Pamela Carreno-Medrano and I will be recruiting 2 PhDs and a Postdoc to work on this. DM me for details if interested!

I used eigenfaces in 2012, can I have a 7 figure salary now?

We have a nice postdoc in human behaviour modelling for robot learning at Monash in Melbourne. You'll be working closely with Dana Kulic , Pamela Carreno-Medrano and me careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Haoyang has a nice paper at HRI 2024 that introduces a way to detect implicit social cues from raw data streams, modelling this exchange of information as a communication process. Paper: lnkd.in/gCs5z34U Code: lnkd.in/gggP389T Work with Elizabeth Croft Monash Engineering

If you're at #icra2024 chat to Artūras Straižys about paper ThBT11-CC.3 - Generating Robotic Elliptical Excisions with Human-Like Tool-Tissue Interactions arxiv.org/abs/2309.12219

Looking for an exciting industry collaboration postdoc in intelligent robotics for pharmaceutical applications? Come join us if you're keen to explore human-in-the-loop simulation and digital twins! lnkd.in/gBXFr4Hn

If you are at #IROS this week, check out Bryce's talk on motion perceiver. sites.google.com/monash.edu/mot…