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News & Events

  • G. Tuba Cibuk Girgin and T. Baturhan Akbulut are visiting Erhan Oztop at Osaka University as research students.
  • Our paper titled “DeepSym: Deep Symbol Generation and Rule Learning from Unsupervised Continuous Robot Interaction for Planning” is accepted to JAIR!
  • Our paper titled “High-level Features for Resource Economy and Fast Learning in Skill Transfer” is accepted to Advanced Robotics! pdf
  • Our paper titled “Reward Conditioned Neural Movement Primitives for Population Based Variational Policy Optimization” is accepted to ICRA 2021! pdf, video.
  • Our project proposal “Abstract Reasoning with Symbol Discovery and Life-long Learning” has been accepted by TUBITAK-1001 program.
  • Our paper titled “ACNMP: Flexible Skill Formation with Learning from Demonstration and Reinforcement Learning via Representation Sharing” is accepted as oral talk (4%) to CoRL 2020! pdf, video.
  • Invited speaker in Fourth Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop, MLPC @ ICRA 2020.
  • Our paper titled “Belief Regulated Dual Propagation Nets for Learning Action Effects on Articulated Multi-Part Objects” is accepted to ICRA 2020! pdf, video.
  • M.Yunus Seker and M.Tuluhan Akbulut are visiting Nagai Group, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, as an intern student from January to February 2020!
  • Alper Ahmetoglu is visiting Asada Group, Emergent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, as an intern student from January to February 2020.
  • Melisa Sener is visiting Nagai Group, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, as an intern student from July to August 2019.
  • Our paper titled “Effect regulated projection of robot’s action space for production and prediction of manipulation primitives through learning progress and predictability based exploration” is accepted to TCDS 2019! pdf.
  • Our paper titled “Deep Effect Trajectory Prediction in Robot Manipulation” is accepted to RAS 2019! pdf, video.
  • Our paper titled “Conditional Neural Movement Primitives” is accepted to RSS 2019! pdf, video.
  • Our work received Best Poster Award in ToRK2019! link.
  • Our research has appeared in Deutsche Welle Turkce Servisi. Accessible via youtube link.
  • Emre Ugur is invited speaker in International Mini-Symposium on Cognitive Robotics, Osaka, Japan, August 2018.
  • Serkan Bugur is visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), as an intern student from September to October 2018.
  • Our research has appeared in national newspapers Hürriyet and Sabah. Accessible via Hürriyet and Sabah.
  • Hakan Girgin is visiting Robot Learning and Interaction (RLI) Group, at Idiap Research Institute as an intern student from March to September 2018.
  • Our research appeared in national news channel Haberturk! See video.
  • Mert Imre and Ahmet Ercan Tekden are visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), as intern students.
  • Emre Ugur is Program Chair of 2018 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).
  • We are organizing Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (TORK2018) in April 12-14 in Bogazici University.
  • Emre Ugur is invited speaker at Hacettepe University Summer School on Computer Vision and Robotics (BYOYO 2017), in August 2017.
  • Emre Ugur is Program Chair of 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).
  • Serkan Bugur is visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Osaka as an intern student.
  • Call for participation: We are co-organizing IROS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics in Vancouver in September 28th.
  • Call for papers: We are guest editing Special Issue in Advanced Robotics on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics.