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Surrey awarded £2m to develop radiation mapping tool to keep aircraft safe
03/07/2020
The University of Surrey will lead a new £2million project to develop a tool that will provide the UK Met Office with global maps of radiation levels in the atmosphere during solar storms.
02/07/2020
AI set to deliver safer offshore work environments
A team of engineers from Heriot-Watt University’s, Smart Systems Group (SSG), say their ambitious project will protect lives and help prevent offshore disasters.
01/07/2020
Blog: Specifying safety requirements for automated driving
In this blog, Professor Simon Burton from the Assuring Autonomy International Programme asks: "How do we know that we have understood the environment well enough to identify all critical driving situations and to derive a complete set of safety requirements for the system?"
30/06/2020
Winners of the 2020 Draw a Robot and Once Upon a Robot Competitions Announced!
The moment has finally come for us to announce the winners of the 2020 Draw a Robot and Once Upon a Robot Competitions!
30/06/2020
University of Salford’s Robotic Centre Receives European Funding
The University of Salford has been successful in their bid to secure funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support the creation of the UK’s newest Robotics Centre.
29/06/2020
Recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards announced
Researchers at University College London, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London were among the 51 award recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards, a grant program.
28/06/2020
Smart blade repair drones move step closer to reality
A UK collaborative project developing an autonomous inspection and repair concept for offshore wind turbine blades has addressed several technological challenges in its first year.