YorRobots
Bringing together researchers and practitioners to create the safest next-generation autonomous robots.
YorRobots is an institution-wide initiative, associated with the Institute for Safe Autonomy (Design and Verification Pillar), bringing together researchers and practitioners with an interest in robotics and autonomous systems, and their applications.
Our goal is to maximise the impact of robotics expertise at York to the benefit of the UK industry. YorRobots will promote and facilitate research in the development of advanced, ethical, safe, trusted, reliable, and certifiable mobile and autonomous robots.
The team is comprised of
Chair of the executive committee: Ana Cavalcanti
Networking officer: Alvaro Miyazawa
Seminar organiser: Jihong Zhu
Publicity officers: Colin Roitt and Edgar Buchanan
News
YorRobots Seminar Series
Our seminar series showcases the work of York and collaborators in the area of robotics. Speakers include academics at York and other institutions, industry experts and our students.
Design and Verification Pillar Seminars
See events across the Design and Verification Pillar of the Institue for Save Autonomy
Centre for Doctoral Training in the area of Autonomous Robotic Systems for Laboratory Experiments (Albert CDT) Funded Projects
We are currently accepting applications for PhD studies during the 2024/25 academic year.
Projects
YorRobots activities will reach out to industry in the UK and internationally to establish multidisciplinary collaborations and technology transfer.
Research groups
Our research is paving the way for the future of robotics by implementing ideas into the real world.
Learn more about our research groups:
Our funders
We work with a number of funding organisations in the UK:
Funded initiatives:
We work closely with a number of partners in the UK.
This is a very exciting time to work in robotics. There are many challenges, but also strong prospects of significant impact to society and industry. York is contributing in a wide variety of areas, from the development of software and hardware to ethical and regulatory issues.
Professor Ana Cavalcanti, Chair of YorRobots executive committee.