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Rethinking Robotics

Location

Shoreditch Electric (Shoreditch Electric Stage)

Date & Time

June 3, 2025, 3:10 - 3:35 PM

About

Category: Technology & Innovation

Track: AI, Robotics & Automation

Format: Presentation

Description

The UK Government estimates that embedding robots into sectors across the nation could inject £149.9bn into the UK economy by 2035. However, there's a critical gap between the computational advances powering robot brains, and the limited hardware capabilities powering their bodies. As a result, robots lack the flexibility, speed, and precision of human manipulation, rendering them useless for the difficult and dangerous tasks where we need them most. In this session, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency’s (ARIA) CEO Ilan Gur and Programme Director Jenny Read set out how their £57m research programme aims to transform robot dexterity by catalysing innovation in hardware and harnessing advances in AI and simulation techniques – all with the aim of boosting productivity and helping to ease the labour shortages of tomorrow. They'll reveal how teams funded by ARIA will co-design hardware and software for robotics to create vastly more capable and useful machines.

Speakers

IG

Ilan Gur

CEO

ARIA

JR

Jenny Read

Programme Director

Advanced Research and Invention Agency

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