Robotics & AI
From Healthcare to Legaltech, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are significant globalised technologies that can be applied in many sectors. The extensive industrial and academic research base in the UK can support both the national and global markets in addressing key challenges impacting societies today.
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Our goal is to help you form powerful collaborations across the Robotics and AI communities in the UK, and turn your ambitious ideas into real-world solutions. We use our deep expertise and diverse connections to offer you direct support, and link you to relevant funding opportunities and potential partners.
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Robotics Adoption Hubs
Opens: 24/02/2026 Closes: 15/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £7.5m per project to create one-stop shops to help end-users adopt robotics and autonomous systems.
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Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body
Opens: 24/02/2026 Closes: 15/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £2m for creating a central convening body to coordinate robotics adoption hubs.
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Robotics Adoption Programme skills development
Opens: 02/02/2026 Closes: 25/03/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5m for projects to develop vocational robotics skills courses.
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TechLocal: AI Professional Practice Degree and Graduate Traineeship Accelerator
Opens: 04/02/2026 Closes: 18/03/2026
UK academic institutions can apply for a share of up to £7.8 million to develop new AI professional practice degrees to address local demand for AI skills that are industry-ready.
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ARIA: Scaling Trust - Tooling and Fundamental Research
Opens: 09/02/2026 Closes: 24/03/2026
ARIA are seeking to fund teams to develop open-source tools for future Arena participants and perform fundamental research that moves us from empirical to theory-driven guarantees in agentic coordination.
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UK Defence Innovation Competition: Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3 (Cycle 7)
Opens: 23/02/2026 Closes: 12/05/2026
Seeking cost competitive, innovative solutions across seven new challenge areas covering Unmanned Aerial Systems, telemetry, and autonomous navigation/guidance.
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Innovate UK supports Bettering Our Worlds’ ambition of derisking robotics software development
From conception to reality, discover how Innovate UK’s Robotics Proving Ground programme helped Bettering Our Worlds’ (BOW) robotics innovation reach new levels of innovation.
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