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UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsAnnouncementUKIZ sourced

Dstl backed robotics breakthrough transforms military manufacturing

Rivelin Robotics, supported by Dstl expertise, has created microfactory technology that automates the slow, risky manual finishing of 3D printed parts.

Source: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

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UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsEventverified

NHS AI Industry Engagement Forum: non-clinical AI use cases

Listed by techUK as an upcoming AI Industry Briefing.

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Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Machines that get on with it.

Move British robotics research into deployed systems in real operating environments

The answer

Move British robotics research into deployed systems in real operating environments.

  • Autonomy is a productivity technology for manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, energy, marine and defence.
  • Deployment, not capability, is where Britain currently falls behind.
  • Real operating environments are a national asset Britain already has.

Why BritainBristol Robotics Laboratory and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.Extensive marine, offshore and nuclear environments requiring autonomy.Defence and offshore customers with real requirements.

Entrance to the Bristol Robotics Laboratory
The UK's largest academic robotics lab, run jointly by UWE and Bristol. · Anders Sandberg from Oxford, UK

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The Robotics & Autonomous Systems campus

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Illustrative aerial view of the UKIZ Robotics and Autonomous Systems digital campus, showing an autonomous vehicle test circuit, a marine testing basin and agricultural robots in the field.Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.

What Britain already has

Research base

  • University of Bristol
  • University of the West of England
  • Heriot-Watt University
  • University of Edinburgh

Infrastructure recorded

  • Testbeds in real environments
  • Certification and safety assurance
  • Integration and systems engineering capacity
  • Compute for simulation and training

What Britain is genuinely good at

  • Bristol Robotics Laboratory
  • Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
  • National Robotarium
  • Offshore and subsea autonomy capability

What we’re less certain about

  • Certification and assurance pathways
  • Corporate and public procurement risk appetite
  • Scale-up capital

These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.

Where the capability is

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What UKIZ holds on UK robotics and autonomous systems

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Robotics in Britain, as it actually stands.

Britain builds excellent robots in inconvenient places. This is the cluster written down: who is here, what you can use, what moved this month and what nobody has answered yet.

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