London Machine Learning Meetup

Our May meetup will be a robotics themed one with two speakers from KCL and Oxford. Inspired by the antagonistic human musculoskeletal system, the current trend in mechatronic design is to include physically compliant elements into the embodiment of robotic devices. The promise of such'soft robotic' systems, includes safety and agility. However, these offerings are tempered by the increased complexity of the system dynamics leading to difficulty in control. Learning (by demonstration or reinforcement) is often advocated as a means of dealing with this complexity, and can allow us to exploit the principles of human sensorimotor control to improve our robotic systems.