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Gerard Canal
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Lecturer in Autonomous Systems @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. PhD @iri-robotics.bsky.social, Computer Scientist and MSc AI. Views are only my own. 📍 London, UK 🔗 https://gerardcanal.github.io/
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Forty girls from local schools came together to battle it out in the Girls Robotics Challenge finale! 🦾

After months of building with sustainable materials, these future engineers showcased their skills.

Read more about the challenge ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk/grc-24-25-fi...
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Today is the final round of Girls Robotics Challenge, the UK's first ever robotics competition for girls!
It is an honour and great pleasure to be a @qeprize.bsky.social ambassador and have the chance to be a part of this! #QEPrize2025
And it has been great to be able to speak a bit and share views with one of the awardees, Prof @yann-lecun.bsky.social!
This year's award to modern Machine Learning touched home! I believe it has been beautifully presented: first, the algorithms that allowed learning; then, the hardware innovations in GPUs that made them feasible; and finally, the much-needed data to train the models! #QEPrize2025
What a great event at the @qeprize.bsky.social 2025 award announcement!
It has been great to meet so many engineers and other ambassadors, and what better venue than the engineers' gallery at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social ? #QEPrize2025
Excited to be heading to the @qeprize.bsky.social 2025 Winner Announcement at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social! 🚀
Can't wait to see which groundbreaking innovation takes the top spot this year! 🔬
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🤖 Imagine a future where robots carrying groceries or assisting with household tasks are as common as your microwave.

@grarknal.bsky.social explores in #IngeniaMag how assistive robots could be the future, helping older people live independently for longer: www.ingenia.org.uk/articles/the...
It's great to see @Maayan257 talking about her #EngineeringRoleModels! I'm sure she will become a role model for future engineers too! 😄

Happy #NationalEngineeringDay everyone! 👩‍💻🤖🔧

@QEPrize @ThisIsEng @RAEngNews https://twitter.com/Maayan257/status/1856724011931070691
The @QEPrize #CreateTheTrophy competition is still open! A huge opportunity for young designers worldwide! https://twitter.com/QEPrize/status/1830568904399155372
@l_wachowiak (I meant #IROS24, all the reviews requests for ICRA25 confused me!)
Meet me at #IROS25 to learn more about our paper! @l_wachowiak can't make it there, but I will proudly present the poster, and also talk about it at the Workshop on Nonverbal Cues for Human-Robot Cooperative Intelligence!

Looking forward to seeing you all in Abu Dhabi! https://t.co/EqrMn7OibE
And the team is already working hard during the set up stage! 🤖 @kclinformatics
Finally at RoboCup in Eindhoven! Eleven years ago I started my journey in robotics for the 2013 Robocup@Home, which coincidentally also took place in Eindhoven. Looking forward to making more nice memories here, let's go LASR from @kclinformatics! 💪🤖
At @ieee_ras_icra? Come to our poster at 13.02, presentation this afternoon. Silvia, @_guillem_ and I will love to talk about our paper "PlanCollabNL: Leveraging Large Language Models for Adaptive Plan Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration" @IRI_robotics @kclinformatics #ICRA24
Getting ready for #ICRA2024! Looking forward to meeting old and new colleagues in Yokohama.

Come say hi and check our paper "PlanCollabNL: Leveraging Large Language Models for Adaptive Plan Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration" (available here: https://t.co/4krPNN5sSC).
Strange but interesting semi-hybrid approach at the @HRI_Conference today. The conference moved online due to a blizzard, but this won't stop us from interacting in the hotel! 😄
Our new @HRI_Conference paper was just beautifully presented by @l_wachowiak in Boulder, Colorado. Do you want to know when do people want an explanation from a robot?
The answer can be found in open access at: http://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610977.3634990 #XAI #HRI2024 @oyaceliktutan @AndrewIColes
Stay tuned for our new paper at ICRA 2024, where we use LLMs to generate task planning subgoals in HRC scenarios! 🤖 See you in Yokohama! https://twitter.com/IRI_robotics/status/1755629016134881459
Rexy (one of our @PALRobotics TIAGo) on its way to get ready to make tea with people! Come to the Bush House Arcade! @aiatkings @kclinformatics
We will start today at 2pm! Come make tea with our robot! https://twitter.com/aiatkings/status/1668902864259895296