Robotics and Autonomous Systems sector index | Industry Collaboration Index

Ranking withheld. 9 universities eligible (at least 20 verified works in the sector); ranking withheld because the eligible pool is below the publication minimum of 10. The sector stays in the index: its works count fully in the overall scores, and its Sector Award has its own partnership pool and rules.

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored). 48 UK and EU projects starting 2021 to 2025 (20 UKRI, 28 Horizon) involve a cohort university and a company group whose main sector, by its verified joint works, is this one (87 universities): most often Trialog, Babcock International Group, Wearable Robotics, TEKNE, Actronika. Sources: UKRI Gateway to Research harvested 4 Oct 2026; CORDIS bulk files of 2026-10-12 (latest record update 2026-06-10). Funded partnerships cover UK (UKRI Gateway to Research) and EU (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, CORDIS) projects starting 2021 to 2025 only. They are reported, never scored, and a funder record outside these two sources is not visible here.

The 17 research topics in this sector

Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots; Educational Robotics and Engineering; Micro and Nano Robotics; Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence; Power Line Inspection Robots; Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics; Reinforcement Learning in Robotics; Robot Manipulation and Learning; Robotic Locomotion and Control; Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics; Robotic Path Planning Algorithms; Robotic Process Automation Applications; Robotics and Automated Systems; Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization; Soft Robotics and Applications; Teleoperation and Haptic Systems; UAV Applications and Optimization