Made Smarter Innovation: Industry ready Robotics and Automation

Up to £6 million is available for late-stage robotics and automation innovation projects

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
• demonstrate a clear, scalable commercial exploitation route within the project consortium

This competition is open to collaborations only. To lead a project, your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. Among other things, projects must:

• involve at least one factory
• be applicable to at least one manufacturing sector
• be carried out in the UK
• have total costs between £200,000 and £4 million
• start by 1 October 2023 and end by 31 December 2024

Find out more about the Industry ready Robotics and Automation competition.

First published 18 January 2023