Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Advanced Robotics that are of particular relevance:

  • Robotic Physical Twins of Fruits for Characterizing, Improving, and Benchmarking Robotic Manipulators
    Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
    £11,800 Royal Society
    01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027
  • Ocado (S&E Flexible Match-funded PhD Studentship)
    Kaspar Althoefer
    £75,000 Ocado Innovation Ltd 
    Grant Summary

    01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027
  • Multi-sensor Eversion Robot Towards Intelligent Endoscopic Microsurgery - ERC SyG 2023 Althoefer
    Kaspar Althoefer, Ketao Zhang and Mohamed Thaha
    £1,791,893 EU Commission - Horizon Europe 
    Grant Summary

    01-07-2024 - 30-06-2030
  • EMPreSS: Enhanced Methane Monitoring Precision for a Multi-Agent UAV System Solution
    Paul Balcombe and Ketao Zhang
    £415,038 NERC Natural Environment Research Council
    01-06-2024 - 31-05-2027
  • Integrated Human-Augmented Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Platform for Precision Viticulture
    Ketao Zhang and Lei Su
    £297,599 Innovate UK 
    Grant Summary

    01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026
  • Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
    Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
    £2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028
  • Solar-powered VTOL UAS-based Intelligent Sensing/Monitoring Applications of Precision Agriculture (S&E Industry Studentship Model)
    Hasan Shaheed
    £72,964 Uavictor Aerospace Ltd 
    Grant Summary

    01-02-2023 - 31-01-2026
  • PALPABLE: Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive Surgery
    Kaspar Althoefer, Lei Su and Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
    £566,718 EPSRC - EU Scheme 
    Grant Summary

    01-01-2023 - 31-12-2026
  • Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation
    Kaspar Althoefer
    £122,759 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
    01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioning
    Kaspar Althoefer
    £50,772 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
    19-09-2022 - 18-09-2026
  • Professorship
    Zion Tse
    £497,258 AMS Academy of Medical Sciences
    31-03-2022 - 30-03-2027
  • Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment
    Kaspar Althoefer
    £99,076 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
    04-10-2021 - 31-03-2026