Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Robots that can learn, adapt and make decisions will revolutionise our economy and society over the next 20 years. Researchers at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (ECR) are at the forefront of the field of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), with a focus on dependability, deployability, and safe interaction between robots, people, and their environments.
The ECR is leading the UK effort to realise its industrial potential in this revolution by producing a new generation of highly skilled researchers, trained with the necessary technical skills coupled to industry and market awareness. Our graduates are innovation ready, equipped through bespoke training programmes to conduct world-leading responsible research with effective scientific, creative, and enterprise skills. Our PhD programmes closely align with our industrial project partners, operating across a variety of RAS sectors including healthcare, assisted living, energy, construction, defence, transport, space, automotive, manufacturing, nuclear, digital media, and education.
About
The ECR harnesses the potential of 80+ world leading investigators from a range of cross-disciplinary research groups and institutes across Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh.
Research
Research in the ECR focuses on the interactions between robots, people, environments, and autonomous systems, designed and integrated for different applications, scales, and modalities. We aim to apply fundamental theoretical methods to real-world problems on real robots solving pressing commercial and societal needs.
Training
The ECR hosts Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in the areas of AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. More information about our latest CDT can be found on the UKRI AI CDT in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) website.