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Imperial College London Robotics

www.imperial.ac.uk

Imperial College London Robotics is a leading UK robotics research institution, organized through the Imperial Robotics Forum — a network of 40+ research…

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Founded
2003
HQ
London, UK
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Imperial College London Robotics: 1 model. 2 sources back the record.

Models

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Overview

Imperial College London Robotics is a leading UK robotics research institution, organized through the Imperial Robotics Forum — a network of 40+ research groups across 11 departments with 100+ post-docs, 200+ PhD students, £150M+ in funding, and 16+ spin-out companies. Key labs include the Dyson Robotics Lab (visual SLAM and Spatial AI, led by Prof.

Andrew Davison FREng FRS), the Robot Learning Lab (robot manipulation via vision and ML, led by Dr Edward Johns), the Aerial Robotics Lab (bio-inspired flying robots, led by Prof. Mirko Kovac), the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery (medical robotics, co-led by Prof. Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena), and the SWIRL Lab (safe whole-body robot learning, led by Dr Stephen James).

Research spans cognitive robotics, medical/surgical robotics, autonomous aerial systems, robot vision, imitation/reinforcement learning, micro-robots, humanoids, and autonomous vehicles. The Forum partners with Amazon, Dyson, and other industry leaders.

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Active incidents
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Key facts

Forum scale

Imperial's Robotics Forum says it connects 40 or more principal investigators, 100 or more postdocs, and 200 or more PhD and EngD students, with 50 or more industrial partnerships, more than 150 million pounds of funding awarded, 2,400 or more publications, and 16 or more companies created (Imperial Robotics Forum).

Campus and contact

The same page lists Imperial College London at the South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, and the forum contact robotics-forum-ops@imperial.ac.uk (Imperial Robotics Forum).

Data & sources

Web sources

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Partnerships

Every company Imperial College London Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1AWS1× joint976 total
  2. 2NVIDIA1× joint1114 total

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Relationships

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Current leadership (5)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Imperial College London Robotics.

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Recent coverage

Imperial College London Robotics in third-party press

Imperial Robotics Forum — Network of 40+ Research Groups

Sep 1, 2024

Stephen James — SWIRL Lab & Neuracore Founder

Jun 1, 2024

The Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London — Dr Edward Johns

Jan 1, 2024