Meet the Innovate UK Manufacturing, Materials, and Mobility sector team who are a group of experts bringing together the areas of Land Transport, Automotive, Connected Transport, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, Rail, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Materials, Electronics, Sensors, and Photonics (ESP), Digital Security by Design and Robotics.
My area focuses on the specific applications of robotics to extreme and challenging environments. These include robots that handle nuclear waste, climb tall towers in the middle of the ocean or survive thousands of meters underwater so not vacuuming the …
In the future, robots with artificial intelligence will help make life easier for all of us – doing our dull, dirty, difficult jobs, and tackling tasks we simply couldn’t do ourselves. One of the key areas where we’ll look …
The first in our series of Innovate UK podcasts looks at robotics and AI in extreme environments. The increasing amount of work that needs to be done in extreme environments like deep mining, nuclear decommissioning and offshore energy means there …
There’s lots of exciting news since I last wrote here in June about the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). If you missed it, the ISCF was announced in April and is part of the government’s £4.7 billion increase in research …
Exoskeletons and wearable robotics are where drones were 5 years ago, on the cusp of commercialisation. They are almost ready to explode on the market in many varied applications from medical rehabilitation to solidly deployable industrial manufacturing exoskeletons.
From a technology perspective, we live in exciting times. There are four huge technology tsunamis heading our way: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robotics Big Data the Internet of Things (IoT) These are the four key technologies that power Ocado’s end-to-end e-commerce, …
Kevin Baughan talks about the role of disruptive change in driving the fourth industrial revolution. Joseph Schumpeter You could be forgiven for thinking that “Creative Destruction” is a paradox, juxtaposing as it does, the unpalatable connotations of destruction with the inspirational emotions …
