Predictions - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

In the future, robots with artificial intelligence will help make life easier for all of us – doing our dull, dirty, difficult jobs, and tackling tasks we simply couldn't do ourselves. One of the key areas where we'll look to robots will be extreme environments where it's dangerous or impossible for humans to go. Several projects recently received funding from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund as part of the government's £93 million programme for robotics and AI in extreme environments. The programme aims to develop robotic solutions in industries such as off-shore and nuclear energy, space and deep mining, to increase productivity and open up new cross-disciplinary opportunities. As part of this programme Innovate UK is funding £51m of collaborative R&D and demonstrator projects.