research centre · Heriot-Watt University campus, Edinburgh
The National Robotarium
A purpose-built centre for robotics and artificial intelligence, led by Heriot-Watt University with the University of Edinburgh, funded through the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
The National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Scottish Government · CC BY 2.0
Where it sits
What happens here
A purpose-built centre for robotics and artificial intelligence, led by Heriot-Watt University with the University of Edinburgh, funded through the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal. Work runs across human-robot interaction, assisted living, offshore and hazardous environments, and conversational AI.
What it can do
- Human-robot interaction laboratories
- Assisted-living and healthcare robotics research
- Offshore and hazardous-environment robotics
- Conversational AI and spoken interaction research
Can I use it?
Collaboration
Industry collaboration and facility partnership enquiries through the centre.
Operator’s own page
Discover the place
You’re in Edinburgh.
The National Robotarium is at Heriot-Watt University campus, Edinburgh. What the field looks like across this place, what else is happening here, and what it is actually like to live and work in it.
Discover Edinburgh →Evidence
- The National Robotarium · checked 2026-08-25
- Every capability line above is taken from the operator’s own published pages. Access is recorded separately, and left empty where UKIZ cannot show a real route.
Image provenance
- PRESS
- Scottish Government · Scottish Government · CC BY 2.0
- Source page · checked 2026-08-14 · taken 2024-05-20
Ask UKIZ about this destination
Hello, I'm the Campus Dean. I help you find your way around UKIZ and its eleven Innovation Campuses. Tell me what you are working on and I will answer from the UKIZ record, then point you to the companies, places, facilities, funding and people behind the answer.
Every answer links back to the record it came from.
UKIZ uses AI to interpret your question and answers from its own records. How this works.