Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6 million to help develop industry ready robotics and automation solutions for deployment within manufacturing production environments.

The solutions should focus on demonstrating innovations to deliver productivity, sustainability, and resilience improvements to the manufacturing processes.

Your project must:

  • be robotics or automation focused within a factory production area,
  • be focused on value-adding production tasks or directly associated load, unload and move tasks,
  • include a physical deployment within a manufacturing facility or very near equivalent, for example, a comparable development facility, and
  • demonstrate a clear, scalable commercial exploitation route within the project consortium.

The competition closes on Wednesday 5 April 2023 at 11am.

See: Competition overview – Made Smarter Innovation: Industry ready Robotics and Automation – Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)