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September 06, 2022

EMERGENCE Healthcare Technologies Network+ Robotics for Frailty Challenge

With a focus on tackling frailty and facilitating the emergence of healthcare robots from labs into service, the EPSRC EMERGENCE Healthcare Technologies NetworkPlus project has been set up to foster and facilitate innovative research and development of healthcare robotic solutions so that they can be realised as pragmatic and sustainable, providing personalised, affordable and inclusive health and social care in the community.
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August 12, 2022

EMERGENCE Workshop at IROS 2022 Kyoto

The Empowering Future Care Workforces project and the UKRI EMERGENCE Network are hosting a special half-day workshop at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan, an important global meeting place of robotics researchers, developers and manufacturers. The workshop will take place on October 23rd, a day before the main conference kicks off. To apply to be part of the workshop and to review important dates, click here.
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August 11, 2022

EMERGENCE Co-Design Workshop

The CARE group successfully run two co-design workshops to contribute to the activities of the EMERGENCE network.
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August 10, 2022

Technologies for Brain Health and Dementia Prevention Workshop

CARE Group’s research showcased at the Technologies for Brain Health and Dementia Prevention Workshop.
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August 09, 2022

CARE Group at the Past and Future of Assistive Technologies Workshop

Ronnie Smith, Alexandre Colle and Mauro Dragone participated to the [Past and Future of Assistive Technologies Workshop], a two-days summit held at Bristol Robotics Laboratory and UWE Bristol’s Health Tech Hub.
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June 14, 2022

National Robotarium Team Compete in METRICS HEART-MET Field Campaign

Students from the National Robotarium and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, Emanuele De Pellegrin and Ronnie Smith (CARE Group), participated in the METRICS HEART-MET 2022 Field Campaign at the Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham between the 23rd - 27th May 2022.
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May 30, 2022

Alexandre Colle Design Transforms at UAL Central Saint Martins

Alexandre Colle is a PhD student at the Edinburgh Centre For Robotics; his research focuses on Aesthetics and Robotics.
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April 24, 2022

Dr. Mauro Dragone on Blackwood 50th Anniversary Podcast

In this podcast Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly, University of Nottingham and CARE Group’s Dr Mauro Dragone talk robotics and explore ‘what is a robot?’.
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April 04, 2022

Call for Papers for APHRODITE 2022

Call for papers published for the the workshop ”AdaPtive beHavioRal mODels of robotic systems based on brain-inspired AI cogniTivE architectures (APHRODITE)”.
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April 01, 2022

CARE Group and National Robotarium at Scottish Care Home Conference

CARE Group members Ronnie Smith, Scott MacLeod and Alexandre Colle attended the Scottish Care Home Conference & Exhibition 2021 (postponed from last year) at the Hilton hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. They hosted one of several ‘insight sessions’ at the conference, on the role of technology and robotics in care.
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March 10, 2022

Blackwood Design Awards 2022

The Blackwood Design Awards 2022 are now officially open for entries. This year’s competition is extra special as Blackwood are Celebrating 50 years of Innovation in Independent Living.
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March 09, 2022

METRICS Launches the 2022 Competition in Assistive Robotics

The 2022 METRICS HEART-MET cascade campaign will take place during IROS 2022. The competition will be conducted entirely online on Codalab, and will tentatively start in August 2022, and end during IROS 2022 in October.
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March 08, 2022

Italian Ambassador to the UK visits Heriot-Watt University and National Robotarium

The Italian Ambassador to the UK, Raffaele Trombetta, visited the University on 21 February to meet with Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Richard A. Williams, before taking a tour of the robotics research labs.
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March 01, 2022

Dr. Dragone a Keynote Speaker at Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being

Dr. Dragone is to give a keynote speech at the 11th workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being (WISHWell).
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February 28, 2022

Dr. Dragone is Serving as an Associate Editor for IROS 2022

Dr. Dragone is serving as Associate Editor for the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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February 23, 2022

CARE Group research showcased at 5th IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Conference

Mauro Dragone and Ronnie Smith will participate to the UK-RAS 5th IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Conference, on February 23, at the University of Edinburgh. The conference is co-organised by The Alan Turing Institute and The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Dr. Mauro Dragone will showcase research from the CARE Group during the RAS for Social & Health Care and Assisted Living session (Room 2), while Ronnie Smith will exhibit a poster of his recent IUI-2022 paper “Active Learning with Natural Language for Human Activity Recognition”.
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February 15, 2022

Article on our Collaboration with Blackwood Homes & Care

Read about our collaboration with Blackwood Homes & Care at Building Better Healthcare.
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February 08, 2022

Collaboration with Blackwood Homes and Care Featured on Assistive Technology (AT) Today

Read more about our collaboration with Blackwood Homes and Care.
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February 07, 2022

Collaboration with OXLABS Ltd.

OXLABS Ltd. is developing habitaHub, a home wellbeing monitoring service to support greater independence for those with assisted living needs. Heriot-Watt University is collaborating with the start-up using know-how, tools and facilities in the National Robotarium’s Open Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL) Lab. The research will help OXLABS to refine its prototype and conduct initial development of machine intelligence algorithms that can be used to track health progression and deterioration in OXLABS’ customers, acting as a springboard to the launch of its operations in Scotland.
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October 19, 2021

Robotics in Healthcare Episode - Heriot-Watt's 'A Future Made' Podcast

In the latest epsiode of ‘A Future Made’, you can hear CARE Group academic Dr. Mauro Dragone and student Alexandre Colle talk about robotics in healthcare.
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September 23, 2021

The doctor will see you now - by teleporting into your home!

We presented our work to UK Government Minister for Scotland Iain Stewart on his visit to the National Robotarium on the 15th of September 2021.
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September 02, 2021

CARE Group at CareTech 2021

The CARE Group chaired a one hour workshop on ‘The potential of robotics in social care’ as part of CareTech 2021, on Friday 27th August between 2-3 PM.
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September 01, 2021

Dr. Dragone joins the Program Committee of IRMAS 2022

Dr. Dragone joined the Program Committee (PC) of the Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems (IRMAS) technical track on the 37th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2022). The conference will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, on April 25 - April 29, 2022.
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June 23, 2021

Alexandre Colle Delivers Design Informatics Webinar on Aesthetics and Robotics

CARE Group student Alexandre Colle has delivered a talk on ‘Aesthetics and Robotics’ as part of the Design Informatics Webinar series.
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June 16, 2021

Introducing OPEN-TAS: An Open Laboratories Programme for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

Dr. Mauro Dragone is involved in OPEN-TAS, an open laboratories programme for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS).
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June 09, 2021

New Network to Tackle Frailty Using Robotics

Heriot-Watt academics are working as part of a new network to create and catalyse robotics to support healthcare in the community.
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May 11, 2021

Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Students Present Proof of Concept Entry for European Robotics League Consumer Service Competition

A group of students from the 2019 cohort of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS) have presented the outcome of their second year group project, undertaken with CARE Group.
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March 23, 2021

Sign up for the Robotics + Care Mashup (10th - 14th May)

Hosted by the the Open Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL) project, part of the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University, the Robotics + Care Mashup will bring together academics, care providers and technologists to develop solutions for assisted living.
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March 10, 2021

Dr. Mauro Dragone serving as Associated Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021

CARE Group academic Dr. Mauro Dragone is serving as Associated Editor for the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and for the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS), to cover “Human Robot/Machine Interaction”.
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February 27, 2021

Dr. Mauro Dragone Co-Hosts Healthcare Robotics Workshop at NSMTC

CARE Group academic Dr. Mauro Dragone has co-hosted the healthcare robotics workshop at the 2nd Annual National Medical Technology Conference (NSMTC), hosted virtually by Hull York University.
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September 28, 2020

Best Paper Award at ICHMS 2020

Paper on human-robot joint action receives Best Paper Award at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS 2020). Congratulations to Sara Cooper, Stuart Gow, Samuel Fensome, Mauro Dragone, and Dimitrios Kourtis.
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September 24, 2020

Edinburgh Innovations Enterprise Initiative Grant for Robobrico

Edinburgh Innovations has awarded one of their Enterprise Initiative Grants for the development of the RoboBrico service robot, a project started by Edinburgh Centre for Robotics students Alexandre Colle, Ronnie Smith, and Scott MacLeod in their spare time. The robot looks to fill a gap in the health and social care assistive technology market, by providing an affordable and highly customisable platform catered to customer needs through co-design. The robot will also be used by Alexandre Colle in the coming year in control studies exploring the role of customisation and modularity in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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August 19, 2020

Preview of Virtual RALT now available

An early preview of Virtual RALT, a simulation of the European Robotics League (ERL) Consumer certified Robotic Assisted Living Testbed is now available for download on the CARE Group GitHub.
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July 14, 2020

HEART-MET Evaluation Plan Now Available

The Healthcare Robotics Technologies - Metrified (HEART-MET) competition evaluation plan is now available.
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July 08, 2020

MobiHealth Deadline Extended to 31st July 2020

The Full Paper submission deadline for MobiHealth 2020 (9th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare) has been extended to 31st of July 2020.
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July 01, 2020

First Remote Access Assisted Living Lab Seeks Collaborators

CARE Group academic Dr. Mauro Dragone is leading the Open Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL) project, which has been featured in several media outlets today. The OpenAAL project is seeking collaborators from the care sector to join the project.
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November 25, 2019

CARE Group at the Digital Health and Care Fest

On the 21st of November, CARE Group joined the Digital Health and Care Fest at the Strathclyde Innovation and Technology Centre in Glasgow, to present their research to the public.
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August 29, 2018

Pepper the Social Robot Visits Dean Social Club

Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the social club welcomes its elderly members for half a day packed with social activities like music, tai-chi, Dominoes or Scrabble. The mission of the centre is to help Edinburgh’s lonely and isolated over-60s by providing companionship that is integrated with local communities.
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January 26, 2018

International Contest Reveals Assisted Living Robots of the Future

Academic teams from across the continent battled it out in the European Robotics League Service Robot Challenge (ERL), testing robots which aim to assist older people in a care setting.
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