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Innovate UK will run funding competitions for businesses to lead collaborative research and development projects in robotics and AI systems development. It will also run demonstrator feasibility studies.

Any business may be eligible to apply to lead a project, so long as they are based in the UK, carry out their project and exploit the results here.

All projects must involve at least one small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) and can be carried out alone or in collaboration with other businesses, research organisations or the third sector.

CR&D projects could look at:

• innovative materials or systems, for example, actuators, sensors and telecommunications
• improved robotic capabilities, such as structural and radiation tolerance
• improved machine vision systems
• improved situational awareness, navigation, localisation and mapping
• more energy-efficient devices and systems
• miniaturised systems, for example, sensors, components and integrated sub-systems
• systems engineering including verification and validation tools and methodologies
• mission planning and risk management

Demonstrator projects should focus on the technical feasibility of individual technologies, systems or subsystems in extreme environments.

Funded projects

皇冠体育app first competition in this area provided 拢16.5 million for CR&D projects and 拢3 million for demonstrators, to support collaborations between businesses, universities and research organisations.

One of the projects to receive funding is led by . 皇冠体育app project will use autonomous vessels to survey ice retreat and better understand the threats of the surviving ice. This will make it easier to plot when it鈥檚 safe for people to use shipping routes, or install or make changes to offshore infrastructure.

Another project, led by , focuses on using integrated drones in the maintenance of offshore wind farms.

It will use drones to inspect and assess blade faults, meaning that people won鈥檛 need to navigate potentially dangerous seas or oceans. This will also reduce costs and time.

拢44.5 million from government and 拢52 million from industry and commercial partners is being invested to set up 4 research hubs for robotics.

皇冠体育app hubs will lead investigations into offshore energy, nuclear energy and space. 皇冠体育appy should open up new opportunities for cross-disciplinary research to create new advances in robotics and allow us to explore environments that are too dangerous for humans to enter without risking injury or ill-health.

皇冠体育appy will span the , , and . 皇冠体育app University of Surrey hub is being co-funded by the UK Space Agency.

皇冠体育app programme is being managed by the EPSRC.