June, 2022
Helping robots to understand people - the work of the Social AI & Robotics Lab
The vision of SAIR is to transform human daily life with robots, for assisting them at home, work, and public spaces. To achieve this ambitious goal, we focus on building cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to enable robots to perceive and interact with humans and their environment.
November, 2021
SAIR's appeared in The Independent and Evening Standard!
We contributed the first UK home trial of a robot assistant to aid an individual with Motor Neurone Disease, which was led by Motor Neurone Disease Association, Toyota Great Britain and Toyota Motor Europe. This video illustrates the vision of our lab, transforming human everyday life with robots, and assisting them at home, work and public places.
October, 2021
Toyota HSR: first UK trial at the home of Anthony Walsh
The trial was the result of collaboration between the SAIR lab, Toyota Motor Europe (TME), Toyota GB, the MND Association, and illustrates how HSR can help provide everyday help to those living with impaired mobility.
September, 2022
Special Session on Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots
Together with our colaborators, we successfully organized a special session at IEEE RO-MAN 2022, Naples, Italy.
September, 2022
RO-MAN 2022 Best Paper Award
Congratulations Tuyen for getting Best Paper Award at RO-MAN 2022, Italy!
March, 2022
SAIR's been awarded the NVDIA Hardware Grant
Congratulations Jian for getting NVDIA Hardware Grant Award, with his project focusing on "continual learning".
November, 2022
NMES 3rd Year PGR Research Competition - Interdisciplinary Nature of Research 2022
Viktor won the NMES 3rd Year PGR Research Competition. Huge congratulations to Viktor!
December, 2021
NVIDIA CCS Best Student Paper Award Runner Up at FG2021
Congratulations Viktor for getting NVIDIA CCS Best Student Paper Award at FG2021!
October, 2021
ICCV 2021 ChaLearn LAP Challenge Honorable Mention Award
Congratulations Tuyen for getting Honorable Mention Award at ICCV 2021 ChaLearn LAP Challenge
June, 2021
Toyota TeamGB Tokyo Olympics sponsor ad with HSR
Viktor collaborates with Toyota GB to make an Olympics-themed short fim!