April 16, 2025

We are pleased to report that special lecture event “KAIWA”, inviting external experts to our Wako office, was held for the purpose of acquiring diverse perspectives and knowledge on new fields.

Speaker Profile:  Professor Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE 

Personal Chair in Robotics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Programme Director, The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK

Founding Director, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Title of the talk:  From Automation to Autonomy: Machine Learning for Next-generation Robotics

Prof. Vijayakumar's talk included powerful machine learning techniques across diverse areas such as robust multimodal sensing, shared representation, scalable real-time learning and adaptation, and compliant actuation.

We regularly invites outside experts to speak to our employees.
If you are interested in our research activities or would like to participate as a speaker, please feel free to contact us!