From Sensing to Collaboration
Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence - An EPSRC Programme Grant
Currently, robots are too specialised, too impoverished in their sensing, too uncooperative and too unsafe to be productive at scale. To contribute to productivity in strategically important areas such as social care, manufacturing, logistics, service, inspection or agriculture, future generations of robots need to be able to sense, interpret, act, navigate, coordinate and collaborate with an hitherto unprecedented acuity.
The overarching aim of this research programme is to deliver autonomous systems which amplify human capacity and potential. These robots must be capable of performing a broad array of bespoke tasks effectively, with minimum operator intervention. In a sustainable national centre of excellence we will grow the technology and people substrate for robust embodied intelligence to enable robots to robustly and flexibly act, interact and collaborate in the real world.
Sponsors and Collaborative Partners
With significant support from EPSRC, the University of Oxford together with UCL and a cohort of academic, industrial and deployment partners are
embarking on an ambitious five-year programme of work on Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence.
