Apply now for our PhD positions in AI and robotics Edinburgh Robotics Interaction Lab #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD
edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with UCL VoCoLab, Angus Addlesee and Verena Rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.

Have you ever wanted to chat with a robot? Now's your chance! 🤖Come along to The National Robotarium to get involved in a research project exploring human-robotic interaction. You can contact Nancie Gunson to find out more or follow this link: bit.ly/4aL6L0u

Boosting spatial understanding in generative AI vision and language models - NAACL 2024 paper from Alana Interaction Lab George Pantazopoulos Alessandro Suglia Arash Eshghi The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics #GenAI #NLProc

Excited to announce that 'Lost in Space: Probing Fine-grained Spatial Understanding in Vision and Language Resamplers' was accepted at #NAACL2024 .

Work led by George Pantazopoulos with co-authors Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ) Arash Eshghi
Edinburgh Robotics The National Robotarium

arxiv.org/abs/2404.13594

In the last year our PhD students Interaction Lab achieved: finalists in Amazon Alexa Simbot challenge; Best Demo paper at EACL; papers at NAACL, HRI, NeurIPS, EMNLP, SIGDIAL, Interspeech … full list at sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…

Looking to do PhD in AI ? Our new CDT program in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funded PhDs & a supportive research environment Interaction Lab Edinburgh Robotics The National Robotarium #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #PhD
edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Will you be in #Edinburgh this May? Join us for a 🍺 and some cool science on technical bugs, innovative healthcare, and friendly robots! Pint of Science UK #pint24 #TechMeOut

Our speakers: Davide Michieletto,Jo Sadler,Luke McNally, Leonardo Castorina,Caroline Morris,Stefano Albrecht (UoE Agents Group),Angus Addlesee

Thanks to everyone who helped at our Edinburgh Science event yesterday 'Two Truths and A Robot Lie', including scifest team, The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt Engage, and Adam Smith's Panmure House.

The event was a big success engaging the public with the history of Adam Smith, and the science of #robots and #AI

ICYMI: #ConversationalAI researcher Angus Addlesee was awarded Best Demo prize at #EACL2024 🏆

The winning paper delves into the #LLM being advanced for #SocialRobots , enabling them to assist patients in hospital memory clinics 🧠

aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ) HWU Human Robot Interaction

It was great presenting my recent work on Embodied AI and multimodal language models. Many thanks for the invite Pasquale Minervini 🚀 looking for postdocs! and many thanks to everyone that attended both in-person and online!

We won Best Demo Paper! at #EACL2024 for multi-person human-robot conversation using Generative AI / LLMs Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic

Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieińska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon

aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Best Demo Award #eacl2024

Great news: Our paper won the 'Best Demo Award' at #EACL2024
Proud to be part of this amazing achievement.
Kudos to the whole team, especially Angus Addlesee for presenting our work at the conference. Interaction Lab

I am delighted to announce that we won the 'Best Demo Award' at #EACL2024 🎉

It can be found here: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Thanks eaclmeeting!

Authors: Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernández G, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] )

Interaction Lab

On Monday 11th of March we will be organising the Human – Large Language Model Interaction workshop
human-llm-interaction.github.io/workshop/hri24/
during the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024)

Our new demo paper on multi-person conversation using Generative AI / LLMs Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

I spoke to IEEE Spectrum : “Generative AI Slims Down for a Portable World.” - more info on our Spring H2020 project IEEE Spectrum Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI
spectrum.ieee.org/personal-ai-as…

Seminar 13th March : Sandro Pezzelle “From Word Representation to Communicative Success: Beyond Image-Text Alignment in Language-and-Vision Modeling' Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…

Next week, I'll be speaking at the EU Chatbot & Conversational | Generative AI Summit Summit 🎉🎉

I will present both my research, and the work by Heriot-Watt University's team on the Spring H2020 project!

We will also be bringing the ARI Robot by PAL Robotics with Oliver Lemon ( @[email protected] ), Nancie Gunson, & Neeraj Cherakara

Interaction Lab