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Events will include open labs, schools and academic competitions and hackathons, and the build-up to UK Robotics Week will begin at the Imperial Festival 2016 on Saturday May 7th and Sunday May 8th 2016 at Imperial College London.
The festival – which is free to attend and open to all ages – will include opportunities to take part in robotics activities, including the “design a robot bug” and autonomous driving challenges.
Surgical Robotics at Imperial College
Three “challenges” are at the core of UK Robotics Week – competitions aimed at pushing the boundaries of what is possible with robotic technology.
- School Robot Challenge 2016 – open to all UK schoolchildren and students aged 4 years old to 18+. Design a robot bug, make it 3D and teach it to move using free software that has been specially created for the challenge
- Autonomous Driving Challenge 2016 – open to everyone. Design your own vehicle and teach it how to drive in this fun, quick and easy to enter competition that will introduce you to 3D design, coding and autonomous driving
- Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 and Field Robotics Challenge 2016 – international competitions aimed at postgraduate students and researchers from academia and industry
Three conferences will be held during UK Robotics Week:
- The Hamlyn Symposium for Medical Robotics (June 25 – 28, London) – an international forum for surgeons and engineers to discuss the latest advances in surgical and medical robotics
- TAROS 2016 (June 28 – 30, Sheffield) – TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) conference, now in its 17th year, covers a wide range of robotics and autonomous systems technologies
- Eurohaptics 2016 (July 4-7, London) – major international conference on haptics and touch-enabled computer applications, and the primary European meeting for researchers in the field
An International Showcase event in London on Friday 1st July will bring together the latest research from the UK and from around the world, including the UK, Japan, United States, South Korea, China, Italy, Switzerland and United Arab Emirates.
