'Cleaning up nuclear wast is obviously a task for robots. But designing 'bots that can do that is hard'. This is how the latest article on the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) starts. A good read from The Economist. Link to the article: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/06/20/cleaning-up-nuclear-waste-is-an-obvious-task-for-robots #ExtremeRoboticsLab #Robotics #NationalCentreforNuclearRobotics #NCNR #ERL #CybernaticSkivvies #Economist #ScienceTe

Our paper entitled 'Feature-Based Transfer Learning for Robotic Push Manipulation' published in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) has been selected for an extended version by the Special Issue on Advancement in Engineering and Computer Science organized by Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ) Thanks to my students, Rhys Howard and Jochen Stuber, the extended paper also proposed a improvement of a twofold i