The ERL lead collaborations with nuclear and/or space agencies of 5 countries on 3 continents.
The ERL currently has in excess of £11 million in current live grants.
- Royal Society Industry Fellowship for Nuclear Robotics – Principal Investigator Professor Stolkin embedded in NNL
- NNL Robotics Fellowship – NNL roboticist Jeff Kuo was embedded in UoB until recent retirement.
Projects
- €6.8million H2020 RoMaNS – Robotic manipulation for Nuclear Sort and Segregation (leader)
- £720,000 EPSRC UK-Korea Civil Nuclear Collaboration (leader) – “Robotic system for retrieval of contaminated materials from hazardous zones”
- £1.75million EPSRC Remote Sensing in Nuclear Environments (leader)
- £5.5million (£2million to Bham) EPSRC Programme Grant – Robotics for Nuclear Environments (co-leader)
- £multi-million DISTINCTIVE nuclear consortium (participant)
- 5 nuclear-sponsored robotics/sensing PhD studentships have been won, totalling more than £half-million funding.
Related Grants
- £250,000 InnovateUK KTP with KUKA (KUKA is a world-leading manufacturer of industrial robot arms – UK nuclear industry is now committed to using KUKA robots)
- £130,000 Ministry of Defence (human-AI collaboration for control of remote robot vehicles)
Other work
- A.R.M Robotics Ltd
- InnovateUK LaserSnake2 – commissioned by NNL to achieve autonomous robotic laser cutting of nuclear waste
- Sellafield Ltd – advanced 3D imaging of bulging nuclear storage containers
- New InnovateUK SBRI project (collab with NNL and Bristol Robotics Lab) – Integrated robotic system for nuclear decommissioning. Now in Phase 1 of £1.5million two-phase project.
Pending
- €6million H2020 Innovation Action “I-RoMaNS – Industrialised Robotic Manipulation for Nuclear Sites” (Birmingham are overall leader) This is a consortium of 7 organisations in 4 countries.