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Our first Centre for Assuring Autonomy Symposium brought together over 100 professionals and academics from across the engineering, safety assurance and regulatory landscape to ask - what does the future of autonomy look like?

The Centre for Assuring Autonomy and DNV, one of the world’s leading classification societies, have signed a £750k partnership agreement which will see the development of a safety assurance framework for autonomous navigation of maritime vessels.

Imagine a drone flying deep into a dark, dusty mine , no GPS, no sunlight, just walls, machinery, and maybe even a person standing in the corner. Now imagine you’re the person who has to make sure that drone doesn’t crash, doesn’t miss its path, and most importantly doesn’t hurt anyone. That’s where our work at the CfAA comes in as PhD student Nawshin Mannan Proma explains.

Dr Jie Zou is our newest researcher here at the CfAA. In this short introduction Q&A, she shares more about her background in safe AI and what research projects she'll be working on.

Dr Kate Preston is a Research Associate in Safe Autonomy with a specialism in human factors and ergonomics. In our latest staff spotlight Dr Preston explains how her specialism is a critical ingredient in both the development and use of AI technologies - particularly in critical areas such as healthcare.

In the first of this two part blog series, Dr Victoria Hodge and Dr Philippa Ryan explore the use of autonomous mobile robots for solar panel inspection, and discuss the importance of a dedicated robotics platform to enable reliable monitoring for expanding solar farms.