Industrial Robots-as-a-Service (IRaaS)

The Industrial Robots-as-a-Service (IRaaS) project presents the opportunity to investigate how to make automation more accessible, particularly for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The ambition is to create automation services based on light-weight mobile robots that will significantly reduce the effort required to deploy, redeploy and changeover automation systems in different workplaces; from days to just minutes.

Allowing human operators to collaborate seamlessly with robots is one of the key enablers to transforming the responsiveness of traditionally difficult to change automation systems.

One of the project’s key objectives is to prove that human-robot teams can jointly carry out complex collaborative tasks with an efficiency and quality exceeding those of monolithic dedicated systems.

This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (UKRI).

For further information, please see our IRaaS website here.