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<span style="margin:0px; font-weight:bold; font-size:14pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Recruitment for September 2020: </span><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:bold; font-size:14pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Closing date is
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Edinburgh Centre of Robotics </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">is
offering an exciting opportunity to study a PhD through an innovative 4-year PhD training programme, drawing on our extensive experience with postgraduate teaching and research supervision. </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Centre
is composed of <span style="margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh and our</span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> goal
is to train innovation-ready researchers to be part of a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; box-sizing:border-box"><i>Safe Interaction, </i>which includes topics such
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human-robot interaction, human-agent interaction, affective robotics and computing, smart spaces, human-robot teaming, collaborative decision-making, cobots, multimodal interfaces;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><b></b></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><b>Interaction
Enablers</b></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">: vision, machine learning for interaction, XAI, visual dialogue, Conversational AI, natural language processing
(NLP) and generation (NLG), various aspects of speech.</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); box-sizing:border-box">Achieving impact requires non-technical skills, for example, an understanding of technology translation, creativity and entrepreneurial
processes. These are an essential component of the CDT programme, captured in the #Cauldron </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); box-sizing:border-box">training programme.</span></div>
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a strong general grounding in responsible research, current theory, methods and applications as a solid foundation for their PhD research.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Opportunity for international placement in prestigious research laboratory in year three.<br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bespoke #Cauldron training programme to provide non-technical skills such as understanding of technology translation, creativity, and
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gateway seminars with prestigious speakers.</span></div>
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