# Imperial College London Robotics: robotics company

Canonical ID: `01c57ac3-6068-4ca5-abbe-8509408a68d0`

- **Slug:** imperial-college-robotics
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2003
- **HQ:** London, UK

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (5)

- [Andrew Davison](/people/andrew-davison.md) Professor of Robot Vision (secondary-verified)
- [Edward Johns](/people/edward-johns.md) Associate Professor & Lab Director (secondary-verified)
- [Stephen James](/people/stephen-james.md) Assistant Professor (secondary-verified)
- [Mirko Kovac](/people/mirko-kovac.md) Honorary Professor of Aerial Robotics (secondary-verified)
- [Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena](/people/ferdinando-rodriguez-y-baena.md) Professor of Medical Robotics (secondary-verified)

## Partnerships (2)

- [imperial-college-robotics x nvidia](/partnerships/imperial-college-robotics-x-nvidia.md) with NVIDIA _technology_
- [imperial-college-robotics x aws](/partnerships/imperial-college-robotics-x-aws.md) with AWS _technology_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Imperial College London Robotics?

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.

### What does Imperial College London Robotics make?

Imperial College London Robotics has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Imperial College London Robotics builds physical robots.

### Is Imperial College London Robotics publicly traded?

No. Imperial College London Robotics is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Imperial College London Robotics?

Imperial College London Robotics is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Imperial College London Robotics headquartered?

Imperial College London Robotics is headquartered in London, UK.

### Who owns Imperial College London Robotics?

Imperial College London Robotics is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Imperial College London Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Imperial College London Robotics ranks in roughly the top 65% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Imperial College London Robotics founded?

Imperial College London Robotics was founded in 2003.


## Sources (1)

1. https://humanoidindex.org/research/imperial-college-robotics

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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