An evening of talks and discussion on robotics, AI and automation.

Join us for an electrifying evening exploring the cutting edge of robotics, AI, and automation. This is your chance to meet the minds shaping the future, see breakthrough technology in action, and connect with fellow innovators. Whether you're an academic, engineer, student, or simply curious about robots, this is an unmissable event.

Researchers and industry experts in robotics will showcase their latest projects and talk about the philosophical challenges of human-robot interaction. This will be followed by a panel discussion on the transition of robotics from the lab to real-world applications.

Speakers include Frank Fu and Alex Schutz (University of Oxford), Dr Amir Patel (University College London) and Azmat Hossain (Extend Robotics). Meet the experts and see a demo of their projects during our networking drinks reception.

There's also the chance to meet and interact with our special robotic guest – a state-of-the-art robotic scanning dog – and manouvre a robotic hand using virtual reality.

 

Event timings:

5.15pm - Doors open

5.30pm – Welcome

5.35pm – Presentations

6.20pm – Demos, meet the experts and mingle at the drinks reception

7.30pm – Event ends

Speakers

Amir Patel is a robotics researcher with over 16 years of experience in both industry and academia. He is currently an Associate Professor in Robotics & AI the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Prior to this, he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT), as well as the director of the African Robotics Unit (ARU). His research involves studying the manoeuvrability of robotic and biological systems such as the cheetah. He has held visiting researcher positions at Carnegie Mellon University (2018) and Johns Hopkins University (2018) as well as University of Oxford (2023). Some of his accolades include a Google Research Scholar (one of the first two African recipients), two Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowships, a MathWorks Research Award (the first ever African recipient) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) Emerging Researcher Award.

Azmat Hossain is a strategic business developer with over 10 years track record in developing and commercializing cutting edge technology solutions worldwide. His passion is to advance the field of robotics and automation and create disruptive solutions which can solve critical problems in society. Azmat has completed his MBA from the University of Edinburgh and has previously worked at The National Robotarium in Edinburgh. Currently Azmat is working as the Business Development Director at Extend Robotics, developing the most intuitive human robot interface in the world.

Lanke Frank Fu is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Robotics Institute. His research focuses on spatial AI, multi-modal 3D perception, and the alignment of images and point clouds for understanding the built world. He works on geometric learning and camera–LiDAR calibration, with the goal of enabling AI systems to reason about space in a physically grounded way. Prior to his doctoral research, he worked on autonomous driving systems at Oxa, developing algorithms for estimating the state of complex driving environments.

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