Automated Vehicles
Connected and Automated Vehicles offer transformational opportunities for safety, access to mobility, lower emissions and increased efficiency and productivity of our transport systems
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Brought by the extraordinary innovations in processing power, artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensors, and business models, we are on the edge of profound changes in the way in which people and goods move around. The emergence of Connected and Automated Vehicles presents us with transformational opportunities for safety, access to mobility, lower emissions and increased efficiency and productivity of our transport systems.
By 2035 this new industry is estimated to be worth £62 billion for the UK, with more than £440 million joint investments by the government and industry already made in more than 90 R&D projects involving more than 200 companies.
Innovate UK Business Connect inputs into policy programmes, facilitates knowledge transfer, and can support organisations in their journey towards improving the future of mobility. We do this by helping organisations to find solutions to their challenges, connecting them to the right potential partners and making sure they succeed.
Since the end of 2017, the team has helped UK organisations win more than £60 million in R&D grants, as well as achieve projects value of more than £90 million.
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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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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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European Institute of Innovation and Technology: open calls in Urban Mobility
Regular deadlines
Up to €2m grants or €2.5m investment for urban mobility solutions.
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iX Challenge - Autonomous Robotic Inspection Platform
Opens: 23/03/2026 Closes: 04/05/2026
RR-SMR is looking for highly autonomous robotic platforms capable of performing repeatable plant inspections within the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) environment.
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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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AgriScale - Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Experimental Development
Opens: 30/03/2026 Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to accelerate Agri-tech manufacturing.
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27/11/2025
Driving UK–Europe collaboration in Connected and Automated Mobility
Innovate UK Business Connect designed and delivered the Horizon Europe: UK–EU CCAM Collaboration webinar series to bridge gaps in the UK Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) landscape and boost engagement in Horizon Europe. Discover how these sessions explored opportunities, built trust, and aligned UK programmes with the EU’s CCAM Partnership.
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16/07/2025
Bridging the AI Revolution in Transport: Turning vision into impact
The Department for Transport’s Transport Artificial Intelligence Action Plan released in June 2025 sets out a bold, systems-level ambition: to embed responsible AI in every corner of our transport ecosystem, making journeys cheaper, cleaner, safer — and more inclusive. Framed within the wider UK Modern Industrial Strategy this is more than a technology roadmap. It is a call to transform how we move people and goods across land, sea, and air, and how we build the industrial and regulatory foundations to enable it.