Rob Deaves

@stepjamUK @imperialcollege HUGE congrats!

As a newly appointed 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 at @imperialcollege, I'm thrilled to announce the 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗯 (𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗥𝗟) at 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻. 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗯 (𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗥𝗟) (swirl.uk) is a new research lab focused on the intersection of safety and intelligence in next-generation robotics. We're hiring exceptional PhD students who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of robot learning. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗥𝗟 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲? We operate at the exciting convergence of: • Online & offline reinforcement learning • Imitation learning & human demonstrations • Sample-efficient learning methods • Whole-body and soft robotics systems We're 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 interested in: • Developing safe exploration algorithms for robotic systems • Creating sample-efficient learning methods that minimize real-world trials • Building foundation models for robotics with safety guarantees • Advancing soft robotics and compliant human-robot interaction • Bridging theory and practice in embodied AI Why now? As robots become more capable and work closer with humans, we need systems that are both intelligent enough to handle complex tasks 𝗔𝗡𝗗 safe enough for real-world deployment. Traditional approaches treat safety and intelligence as competing priorities, we believe they're synergistic. If you're a motivated researcher who wants to develop the theoretical foundations and practical algorithms for tomorrow's safe, intelligent robots, I'd love to hear from you. Want to join? Apply via swirl.uk

@AjdDavison @HideMatsu82 @rmurai0610 @makezur @BaeGwangbin @ICComputing HUGE congrats!!

We won Best Demo at #CVPR2024 for Gaussian Splatting SLAM (@HideMatsu82 + @rmurai0610). Also: Best Demo Honourable Mention for SuperPrimitives (@makezur + @BaeGwangbin)! Proud of our whole group at @ICComputing. Demos make big impact, and are also fun! cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/20…

Z2z Four University o.f Birmingham academics awardedx U KRI Future Leaders Fellowships birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/four…

@MauriceFallon @jmcdonald_mu Congrats!!

@Ed__Johns @UKRobotics CONGRATS Ed ... and great to meet up in Bristol!!

I was deeply honoured to receive the UK-RAS Early Career Award on Friday, and I'd like to share this with all the PhD students I've worked with recently (see below). Thank you UK-RAS (@UKRobotics), I will continue my efforts to get robot learning working in everyday environments!

@ImperialRobots HUGE congrats Andy ... very well deserved!!

Congrats to @ImperialRobots Prof Andy Davison for being elected Fellow of the Royal Society!

@AjdDavison Congrats Andy ... massively deserved!!

Very proud, and still a bit shocked, to share that I've been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Thank you to my students and collaborators from Imperial College, Oxford, AIST, Dyson, Slamcore and beyond, and of course to my supportive family and friends! royalsociety.org/people/andrew-…

@thrishlab @BostonDynamics Really looking forward to the talk ... Good luck!

My inaugural talk on “Can robots help us understand who we are?” will be live streamed today on YouTube from 5:25pm London time at this link: bit.ly/YT-Thrishantha @BostonDynamics I will mention you at a couple of points.

@LintongZhang Great work!!

Check out out recent work which involves mapping one of the oldest building in Oxford: The Sheldonian Theatre!

@RAEngNews Great work Barry (and Team)

Lyra the nuclear decommissioning robot has been named as one of the top inventions of 2022 by TIME Magazine. Lyra is the result of a three year collaboration led by Academy Chair in Emerging Technologies Professor Barry Lennox: time.com/collection/bes… #RAEngResearch

@dawnbonfield Huge congrats and very well deserved!!!

I am absolutely delighted to be amongst the new Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, & very grateful for all of the kind comments from colleagues. The Academy is leading on its recognition of the need for inclusion in engineering, & the focus on diverse future skills.

@LandgrafZoe HUGE congrats on being awarded your PhD ... all the best for the future!

#ICML2022 I will be presenting this tomorrow, Wednesday 20/07/22 (spotlight talk). Come check it out or visit our poster session at 6:30 pm the same day.

@Nicolas_Reds @ClarkAngus @fmryb @ImperialREDSLab @ImperialRobots @ImperialDyson Huge congrats ... very well deserved!

@charliehouseago Huge congrats!!

Successfully passed my PhD Viva on the topic of 'Agent and Object Aware Methods for Mobile Manipulators'. Thanks to my examiners Ed Johns and Javier Civera for a fascinating conversation, and also to my supervisor Stefan Leutenegger for all his advice and guidance. #PhDone

@dawnbonfield @kcl_engineering @profclairelucas Congrats Dawn ... keep the great work going!!

I am delighted to say that I have had my contract at @kcl_engineering renewed for 2022 as Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, where we are working to empower students in engineering to understand & actively address the #SDGs, as changemakers & entrepreneurs. @profclairelucas

@AjdDavison @Shuaifeng_Zhi @angelaqdai @Ed__Johns Huge congrats... excellent news!

Congratulations to @Shuaifeng_Zhi (Dyson Robotics Lab) who passed his PhD viva yesterday. Thanks to examiners @angelaqdai, @Ed__Johns. A reminder of his remarkable SceneCode work on monocular dense+semantic mapping via joint code optimisation. Full info: youtube.com/watch?v=MCgbgW…

@CSProfKGD @AjdDavison @rapideRobot @stevenjl Great work @AjdDavison and congrats!!!

@AjdDavison @rapideRobot @stevenjl Congrats!

What an honour to win a PAMI Helmholtz Award at #ICCV2021. DTAM (ICCV 2011) is a paper with few results, and barely got in as a poster. But once @rapideRobot and @stevenjl got the big laptop to Barcelona we showed people a live dense SLAM and AR demo they had never seen before!

@AjdDavison @Dyson @AdaLovelaceSch Hope it went well!

Today I took a @Dyson 360 Eye in to explain how it works to the kids at @AdaLovelaceSch!

@AjdDavison @Petar_Kormushev Great news .... congrats!

Congratulations to Stephen James who passed his PhD viva today --- many thanks to examiners Jens Kober and @Petar_Kormushev. Check out Stephen's fantastic PhD work in the Dyson Robotics here: stepjam.github.io including RLBench: sites.google.com/view/rlbench

@paul_m_newman Great news! And Happy New Year!

I've been somewhat silent on twitter for a while. I was cooking up a storm in stormy year with colleagues and company I'm proud to be part of and help lead. A big welcome to our new partners and thanks to our existing ones. Go tech. Go UK. Driven to be driverless. Let’s crack on.